Fun Facts:
The Historical Origin of the Middle Finger 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 be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the 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 ... ... PLUCK YEW!" Over the years, some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker", which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows for the longbow), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird".
So there you have it!
Giving the middle finger is not bad at all.
So Domenic on behalf of the Awesome Friends I say "Pluck Yew!" and keep those Frenchies in their place!
~awesome sean
A.S. Happy Birthday! I will drink a drink and toast to your health!
A.A.S. And the rest of the Awesome Friends the same goes for you, "Pluck Yew!" Hooray! Down with France! Victory is ours!
So there you have it!
Giving the middle finger is not bad at all.
So Domenic on behalf of the Awesome Friends I say "Pluck Yew!" and keep those Frenchies in their place!
~awesome sean
A.S. Happy Birthday! I will drink a drink and toast to your health!
A.A.S. And the rest of the Awesome Friends the same goes for you, "Pluck Yew!" Hooray! Down with France! Victory is ours!
posted by Awesome Sean at
1:47 PM
8 Comments:
if you made that up by yourself I'm giving you a brownie. with ice cream on the side.
No sadley I cannot take credit... I found it online.
But thats okay, cause I do not like sweet stuff.
Beer would be a greater motivation!
PlAGARISM!!!
Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia . . . cool story, Sean, but probably not true:
It has long been told that the famous "two-fingers salute" and/or "V sign" derives from the gestures of English archers, fighting at Agincourt. The myth claims that the French cut off two fingers on the right hand of captured archers and that the gesture was a sign of defiance by those who were not mutilated.
Jean Froissart (circa 1337-circa 1404) was a historian and the author of Froissart's Chronicles, a document that is essential to an understanding of Europe in the fourteenth century and to the twists and turns taken by the Hundred Years' War. The story of the English waving their fingers at the French is told in the first person account by Jean Froissart. However, the description is not of an incident at the Battle of Agincourt, but rather at the siege of a castle nearby in the Hundred Years' War. Adding to the evidence is that by all accounts Jean Froissart died before the battle actually took place; it was therefore rather difficult for him to have written about it.
"cool story but probably not true"
Sounds like the exact opposite of you and gayness.
... work it out.
I got a minor in History, what did you get....
I thought so!
History is what I say it is!
And now because of your insolence, from this moment it is historical truth that your ancestors suffered from erectile dysfunction, bred with Hippopotamuses, lived in and ate manure and could never pass 3rd grade math! Not to mention they all had a third nipple right on their foreheads.
So let it be written so let it be done!
Huh. I didn't know I was related to your mom's side of the family. Weird. I'll give you a second to work out the math. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . okay I'm bored. People with three nipples are like X-Men. We might be mutants, but we'll beat the shit out of you.
Thanks for the birthday greetings, Sean. I did indeed have an Awesome day. And I have it on the authority of Isaac Block that the V figure gesture originated at the Battle of Agincourt. Take that Wikipedia!
By the way, have they been teaching you in Nominalism class, Sean, that you can fundamentally alter reality according to your will, or have you just be observing Canadian Parliment in action?
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