Pluck Yew!

Subject: Pluck Yew! Fri May 14, 2010 4:30 am

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!

And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing!

Subject: Re: Pluck Yew! Fri May 14, 2010 5:08 pm

there are no words, nor smiley faces, to depict how i reacted to this.

Subject: Re: Pluck Yew! Fri May 14, 2010 5:40 pm

I now right, I saw it and was like wow...(took the words out my mouth CJ)

Subject: Re: Pluck Yew! Sat May 15, 2010 12:18 pm

i mean, its interesting to know the real definition of fuck you. but that pun you made at the end was god awful. really all this post tells me that i need to pick up my bow again, that way the next time someone says fuck you i can say "you can't fuck me as well as i can fuck you." talk about utter confusion when they hear that.

Subject: Re: Pluck Yew! Sat May 15, 2010 6:54 pm

Haha thats great.

I know ^_^