Subject: Interesting bit of trivia.
Author: Prusnek
Date: Jul 23, 2003, 5:13 AM
Post ID: 1713879314
Urban legend, but amusing. Go here:
History About The Middle Finger!
Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?
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