It's a nice story, but it has absolutely no basis in fact. (For a start, the English brandish two fingers, not just one.)
> I think this whole finger thing came from wars between the French and > the British during medieval times. Evidently the French would remove > this finger form British prisoners so they couldn't use a long bow > correctly, the British would brandish the middle finger to indicate its > continued presence and a foreshadowing of arrows to come. It may all be > apocryphal, but I like the story anyway. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/05/04 03:59PM >>> > Nice. > > John > > On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:31:59 +0100, mike wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Norm Baugher wrote: > > > >> Not quite as good as Crecy, eh? > >> Cotty wrote: > >> > >>> On 4/7/04, Norm Baugher, discombobulated, offered: > >>>> And I'd just like to give the finger to all you Brits! > >>>> VBG > >>>> Norm > >>> > >>> We take your finger, chop it off, glue on a new and better > supersonic > >>> one > >>> (although costing twice as much), and give it straight back to > you! > > > > During the D-Day ceremonies last month, one of the announcers kept > > referring to the village they were held in as "Arrowmunchers". I > > wondered if it was a 15th century version of "cheese-eating surrender > > > monkeys" > > > > mike > > > > > > > > -- > Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ > >
