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05-28-2009, 11:18 PM
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I honestly didn't know this.
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> I never knew this 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.'
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> IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!
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> And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing !
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> I never knew this 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.'
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> IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!
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> And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing !
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05-28-2009, 11:18 PM
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Here you go...
http://www.horsetrailerworld.com/hom...il.asp?ID=9368
http://www.horsetrailerworld.com/hom...il.asp?ID=9368
same rig with 160k more miles...hmmmm nice find
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05-28-2009, 11:36 PM
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You could ask that guy in spring right there off of 45 that has 2 of them on his lot for the last 6 months for a buy bid.
I really think that they are ugly personally, but like Bigandy, I am sure it could be sold for 50K just so you could get rid of it.
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05-29-2009, 07:51 AM
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews
This country is in a bad way when this chit happens
This country is in a bad way when this chit happens
