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 English longbow 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 French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew!".

Since "pluck yew" is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals 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."



IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F*CK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger

returd

For Joe, Where's the how-to?

no no....he's married....he dosen't need a how to...he needs a how to forget

So he made that story up....who spends the time to make some bs like that up....and makes us read it =[

Don't read after all once I read about the dangers of drinking I stopped reading.