Originally Posted By: jeremy hesford
BTW, do you know where flipping the bird came from? You know, the middle finger in my avaitor. Yeah that's me man. For all the world to see. Not angry at anybody, just saying a basic "fuck you" to whoever.

Anyhoo it was during a war between the British and French, not sure when, eairly 1700's or something? The french developed a new bow and arrow that was the high tech weapon of the day. It was better at killing english soldiers than other weapons.

So when they captured French soldiers, they would cut off their middle finger, the one used to draw back the bow. So in battle, they use to flip the British the bird saying basicly, "fuck you",
isn't that interesting.


That's an urban legend

Here's the link:

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.asp