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It looked quite odd at first because I saw the “Support terrorists. Vote Bush out of office.”
Figured it out though! [
] Give him hell posc! [^]I just did some research and here is what I found:
Experts who have studied the history of the raised middle finger – and there are a few out there – have found written references to it as far back as ancient Greek and Roman times. The gesture’s sexual meaning has always been roughly the same, and it has always been considered rude.
Those findings, the experts say, debunk a common legend that “flipping the bird” got its start at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. As that story goes, the victorious British supposedly raised their middle fingers after the French threatened to chop off the middle digits of captured English soldiers. But experts say there is no written proof of the story.
Widely publicized displays of the middle finger have increased in recent years – in some cases, with little consequence to the bird-flipper. But that wasn’t always the case, as comedian Jackie Mason learned the hard way.
In 1964, Mason was banned from “The Ed Sullivan Show” – and for a time, network television appearances – after he appeared to flip the bird on live, national TV. Sullivan was livid. Mason denies he made the gesture.
There was, however, no mistaking the middle finger that Vice President Nelson Rockefeller gave in 1976. A now infamous photo – shocking in its day – shows him smiling widely as he returned the bird to student demonstrators in Binghamton, N.Y.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5246385.htm?1c
P.S. Didn’t know Rockefeller flipped someone off on camera. [
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