Homepage Forums Anything But Riding… General B.S. History of the Middle Finger

  • This topic has 4 voices and 7 replies.
Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #25095
    pjtaft
    Member

    Subject: The History of the Middle Finger
    The History of the Middle Finger
    Well, now……here’s something I never knew before, and now that I
    know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in
    the hope that they, too, will feel edified. Isn’t history more fun when you
    know something about it?

    Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating
    victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all
    captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they
    would be incapableof fighting in the future. This famous English
    longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing
    the longbow was known as “plucking the yew” (or “pluck yew”).
    Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset
    and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the
    defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew! Since ‘pluck yew’
    is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at
    the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F’,
    and thus the words often used in conjunction with the
    one-finger-salute!

    It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the
    longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as “giving the
    bird.”

    And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing!

    #30962
    RaidenHayden
    Member

    Dude, you have too much time on your hands

    #30966
    bmiddaugh
    Member

    Bill,
    good pun…
    Hands…middle finger….

    #30970
    pjtaft
    Member

    too much time? NAH,..

    I have ADD,. I can ignore more things at one time than most people can focus on in a week!!

    Multitasking At it’s finest!

    #30979
    CrazyCraig
    Member

    Pat – go back to work. 😆

    #30983
    pjtaft
    Member

    I am working!!!!

    #30986
    bmiddaugh
    Member

    lol, we all worked a lot harder before this site came around…
    seems like BMX is becoming a full time job for us all again..
    HELL YEA BABY!

    #31014
    pjtaft
    Member

    when’s Payday then?

    #31020
    bmiddaugh
    Member

    when we take over.
    which sounds crazy but anything is possible, with nut jobs like us on the case

Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.