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To: robert b furman who wrote (45627)	11/15/2011 12:58:37 PM
From: Oblivious	Respond to of 62579

Absolutely!

To: robert b furman who wrote (45627)	11/16/2011 9:31:50 AM
From: Mad2	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62579

The History of the Middle Finger Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified. Isn't history more fun when you know something about it? 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. mad2

To: robert b furman who wrote (45627)	11/16/2011 1:14:50 PM
From: Arthur Radley	11 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62579

Always find it amusing that those who live in glass houses are the first to condemn, but when their bull is getting gored with facts they yell stop that treason does apply to their crooks. Prescott Bush, the Bush family fortune maker got his wealth by money laundering for Hitler---only two companies were shut down during WW II by applying the Trading With the Enemy Act and they both were run by Prescott.(Union Bank and American Silesian). And then there was Standard Oil(what we call Exxon today) who President's family manages the Bush family fortune--and what did Grand Daddy Farish do to make his fortune while running Standard Oil........ Farish had been a principal in a partnership between a Standard Oil/General Motors owned company, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation, and the German company I.G. Farben. This jointly owned venture, Ethyl GmbH, was involved with the creation of the Auschwitz labor camp on June 14, 1940, to produce artificial rubber from coal and they also built then operated tetraethyllead plants in Germany. [5] On March 25, 1942, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announced that Farish, along with other officers of Standard Oil and related companies, pled "no contest" in the criminal courts of Newark, New Jersey to criminally conspiring with the Nazi government in Germany. As part of a plea bargain, the charges were dropped in exchange for Standard Oil releasing its German patents and payment of fines totaling about $50,000. [6] William Stamps Farish was fined $1,000 while similar fines were levied against Standard Oil -- $5,000 each for the parent company and for several subsidiaries. This did not interfere with the millions of dollars that Farish had profited as a large stockholder, chairman and president of Standard Oil. He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public as approaching 'treason' for profiting from the Nazi war machine and withholding patents from the US government. [7]