I do.
Fact: In Georgia (my home state) dusting your finger (the 'shame shame'
gesture) is unknown to most. They often act very hostile in response,
unaware that it's a fairly benign gesture.
----- Original Message -----
From: <chrysaetos_at_avians.net>
To: <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Natasha, ala BondoFox 8)
> Scrapper Black Dragon wrote:
>> Pluck Yew (middle finger) of the Brits Vs the French when
>> the froggies were threatening to cut of the 'offending
>> finger' to prevent the effective use of the highly Pom's
>> effective long bow (made from the wood of the Yew tree and
>> the action of drawing it known as plucking yew, that
>> subsequently suffered Chinese Whisper style corruption...)
>>
> Nah, the middle finger has meant exactly what it means today since at
> least Roman times, when it was called "digitus impudicus", the indecent
> finger. It's a fair bet that neanderthals were flipping each other off
> shortly after inventing the loincloth.
> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980904.html
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> On the same note, "fuck" or variants thereon show up in a number of
> western languages, which suggests it hails from somewhere around
> Indo-European (the lingual ancestor of everything from latin to german
> to norse). In both cases, the actual origin is lost to the mists of
> unrecorded history. Because really, who notes the first occurence of
> obscene gestures?
> http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_268b.html
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