Flipping the Bird
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Here is another untold story that most do not know, which has to do with that famous finger gesture called “flipping the bird.” That gesture, that story has to do with that phrase “Pluck You.” No, no, we said that phrase pluck, p-l-u-c-k you, which by the way comes from the phrase “plucking the ewe” and it all comes from history, history pertaining to the battle of Argon Court in 1415. It was a fierce battle between the French and the English, which the French felt sure to win, and so made a boast of what they were going to do to the English once they did. They boasted for naught, for the battle they lost. And as a result of the boast, and the loss, the victors before, and after, the battle came up with the famous salute we today call “flipping the bird.” And it has to do with plucking the ewe. It was all once understood but is now unknown and untold. We do tell it however at anotheruntoldstory.com go there and hear it at anotheruntoldstory.com.
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