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Subject: Interesting bit of trivia.

Author: Prusnek

Date: Jul 23, 2003, 5:13 AM

Post ID: 1713879314



 

History About The Middle Finger!
Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?
Urban legend, but amusing. Go here:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-pluck-yew.htm

 It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used w/ the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."
"I'm not the pheasant plucker
I'm the pheasant plucker's son
I only pluck the pheasants
Until the pheasant plucker comes"

John Prusnek

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