Earnings not in "days" instead of "weeks". Boy, where have we heard that before. Seems to have been in print several weeks or months ago.... Don't anyone hold their breath.
Greg, speaking of middle fingers...
In the current film, Titanic, the character Rose is shown giving the
finger to her fiance's manservant (another character). Many people who
have seen the film question whether "giving the finger" was really done
around the time of the Titanic disaster, or if it is a more recent
gesture invented by some defiant seventh-grader.
According to research, here's the true story:
Giving the Finger - 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 be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon
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! PLUCK YEW!"
Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this
symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like
"pleasant mother pheasant plucker," which is who you had to go to for
the feathers used on the arrows for the longbow), the difficult
consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a
labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often
used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought
to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because
of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is
known as "giving the bird."
And yew all thought yew knew everything! |
