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To: HombreSecreto

No wall design is complete without a cohort of medieval taunting French.

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Or English archers flipping them the bird. The English archers introduced “the bird” when the French threatened to cut off their middle fingers to prevent them from pulling back the bows.


14 posted on 01/19/2018 12:31:24 PM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Actually, English archers invented the “V” symbol using forefinger and middle finger for that reason. The middle finger alone has been used since Roman times (it was known as “digitus horriblis” or somesuch).


23 posted on 01/19/2018 12:45:24 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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