To: NoLibZone
What’s she gonna do, ugly us to death?
2 posted on
08/27/2011 1:30:17 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin)
To: cripplecreek; NoLibZone
Despicable Maxine Waters:Tea Party Can Go to Hell, I Intend to Help Them Get There If Congresswoman Ugly listens she might just hear stout Free Fnglishmen cry "Pluck Yew!"
18 posted on
08/27/2011 1:43:58 PM PDT by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: cripplecreek; NoLibZone
Subject: Plucking the Yew! Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible for the English soldiers to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore incapable of fighting in the future. The famous bow was made of the English Yew tree and the act of drawing the longbow was known as “plucking the yew” or “pluck you”. Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won the battle and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French and saying “We can still pluck yew. Pluck you”. Since “pluck yew” is rather difficult to say, 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. 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 that yew knew everything.
Still an appropriate thing to yell out to the enemy of a Free Englishman.
34 posted on
08/27/2011 2:16:06 PM PDT by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: cripplecreek
No, just send us maps to her district.
40 posted on
08/27/2011 2:36:20 PM PDT by
RichInOC
(Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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