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<blockquote data-quote="Galileo" data-source="post: 66882" data-attributes="member: 3768"><p><strong>Middle Finger- </strong>A legend had it that the middle finger as a gesture originated from the <a href="http://paranormalis.com/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0066cc">Battle of Agincourt</span></u></a>, fought between <a href="http://paranormalis.com/wiki/England" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0066cc">England</span></u></a> and France in 1415, during the <a href="http://paranormalis.com/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0066cc">Hundred Years' War</span></u></a>. According to the legend, French soldiers cut off the middle fingers of English archers, to prevent them from using the <a href="http://paranormalis.com/wiki/English_longbow" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0066cc">English longbow</span></u></a>, which required the middle finger to operate. In an act of defiance, the English soldiers supposedly made the gesture with their middle fingers towards the French.<a href="http://paranormalis.com/#cite_note-straightdope-32" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0066cc">[32]</span></u></a> This, however, is also where the gesture of '<a href="http://paranormalis.com/wiki/V_sign_as_an_insult" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0066cc">flicking the Vs</span></u></a>' supposedly comes from, as the index and middle fingers are actually needed for the considerable force required to draw a longbow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Galileo, post: 66882, member: 3768"] [B]Middle Finger- [/B]A legend had it that the middle finger as a gesture originated from the [URL='http://paranormalis.com/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]Battle of Agincourt[/COLOR][/U][/URL], fought between [URL='http://paranormalis.com/wiki/England'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]England[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and France in 1415, during the [URL='http://paranormalis.com/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]Hundred Years' War[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. According to the legend, French soldiers cut off the middle fingers of English archers, to prevent them from using the [URL='http://paranormalis.com/wiki/English_longbow'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]English longbow[/COLOR][/U][/URL], which required the middle finger to operate. In an act of defiance, the English soldiers supposedly made the gesture with their middle fingers towards the French.[URL='http://paranormalis.com/#cite_note-straightdope-32'][U][COLOR=#0066cc][32][/COLOR][/U][/URL] This, however, is also where the gesture of '[URL='http://paranormalis.com/wiki/V_sign_as_an_insult'][U][COLOR=#0066cc]flicking the Vs[/COLOR][/U][/URL]' supposedly comes from, as the index and middle fingers are actually needed for the considerable force required to draw a longbow. [/QUOTE]
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