History lesson for the "thinkers"...finger this out

[Cane Pole]

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 incapable of
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.'

[frank lawhead]

I Can Rest Now---had My History Lesson----

[The Lip RIPPERS]

Thanks Tom; Leave it to the French to incite the English into this invention. I worked with some Frenchmen 3rd. party inspectors and gave 2 of them the "bird" myself. Oh by the way my geneology runs all the way back to Britain, some of my folks may have shot arrows at them and I sure got a LONG middle finger!

[wwwUncle]

Well, it is funny, but old and strictly a joke. I had seen this before a few times. Stuff keeps going round and round.

snopes.com: Pluck Yew

[Eager Beaver]

Well the "THINKERS" would have thought to have checked the info out first. More miss information from the NON-THINKERS" section. History is more fun when you know the facts. hehehe EB

[Cane Pole]

Well the "THINKERS" would have thought to have checked the info out first. More miss information from the NON-THINKERS" section. History is more fun when you know the facts. hehehe EB

It is an Email joke........Geez

We sure gots a lot of spelling cops and Snoopmasters stalking.

[Eager Beaver]

I Can Rest Now---had My History Lesson----

No rest for the wicked frank, up and at um fella. hehehe EB

[Cane Pole]

No rest for the wicked frank, up and at um fella. hehehe EB

:D:D

email came from Frank.

[catman]

i always fingered, i mean figuerd tom to be a pretty sharp fellow, but this snopes fellow wow.

[Cane Pole]

i always fingered, i mean figuerd tom to be a pretty sharp fellow, but this snopes fellow wow.

Free thinkers eh? Potty trained by snoops.