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Well, now......here's something I never knew before,
  and now that I know it, I feel compelled to pass 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?
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                   Giving the Finger
 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 weapon 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  The finger
  French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew!
  "PLUCK YEW!"
  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 yew knew everything

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