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Shooting the bird, deuce, double deuce...
Does anybody else have good names for the use of the middle finger?
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Posted 23 November 2002 - 12:01 AM
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Posted 23 November 2002 - 06:56 AM
I think you need to free your mind.
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Posted 23 November 2002 - 02:52 PM
Free my mind from what?
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Jacques Derrida, "Signature Event Context"
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Posted 23 November 2002 - 03:08 PM
Yourself, perhaps?
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Posted 23 November 2002 - 10:22 PM
Isn't "shooting the bird" a mixed metaphor? "Shooting the wind" means to chat, "flipping the bird" means to give someone the finger. Combine the two and you're well on the way to stichomythia, a well-beloved technique of existentialist playwrights such as Tom Stoppard.
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Posted 24 November 2002 - 09:29 AM
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Yourself, perhaps?
Yourself, perhaps?
Whatever affects him from outside.
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Posted 24 November 2002 - 06:20 PM
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Whatever affects him from outside.
Whatever affects him from outside.
What does that have to do with shooting the bird?
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Posted 25 November 2002 - 02:59 AM
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What does that have to do with shooting the bird?
What does that have to do with shooting the bird?
About as much as I know about what you're talking about (what shooting the bird, and the middle finger is related to.)
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Posted 01 December 2002 - 07:13 AM
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Yourself, perhaps?
Yourself, perhaps?
Maybe he should free himself from the justice system and kill you.
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Posted 01 December 2002 - 12:19 PM
"The Finger" is an american bastardization of a rude english hand gesture, which involved sticking up both your middle and index finder.
Don't really remember where it came from exactly, but I hear it comes fromt he various wars the english have had with the french. Apparently the longbowmen the english deployed were to devestating tot he enemy, that whenever the french captured a longbowman they would take off the middle and index fingers so they could never draw a bow again.
After some disasterous defeat of the french in some battle or another where the longbowmen kicked some french ass, the english all showed the defeated french, in that gesture, their bowfingers as a sneering insult, to say tot he french "Hah! I kicked your arse with these two fingers!"
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Don't really remember where it came from exactly, but I hear it comes fromt he various wars the english have had with the french. Apparently the longbowmen the english deployed were to devestating tot he enemy, that whenever the french captured a longbowman they would take off the middle and index fingers so they could never draw a bow again.
After some disasterous defeat of the french in some battle or another where the longbowmen kicked some french ass, the english all showed the defeated french, in that gesture, their bowfingers as a sneering insult, to say tot he french "Hah! I kicked your arse with these two fingers!"
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Posted 01 December 2002 - 01:42 PM
"Pluck you" was a phrase that accompanied that.
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Posted 01 December 2002 - 03:27 PM
Yes...
You know, it always amazed me how stupid the french were. They've always been remarkably stupid. (I speak of course - in terms of medieval warfare leading up to later dates. Their kings were especially idiotic.)
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You know, it always amazed me how stupid the french were. They've always been remarkably stupid. (I speak of course - in terms of medieval warfare leading up to later dates. Their kings were especially idiotic.)
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Posted 01 December 2002 - 03:40 PM
Like Charles X. 
"Lets go back to the fourteenth century!"
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"Lets go back to the fourteenth century!"
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Posted 01 December 2002 - 05:44 PM
All of the kings were morons to an extent, excepting Charlemagne, Clovis, Henry the IV (who was kind of lucky) and a few others who did decently.
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Posted 05 December 2002 - 10:27 PM
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Maybe he should free himself from the justice system and kill you.
Maybe he should free himself from the justice system and kill you.
That has been suggested several times
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Posted 05 December 2002 - 10:46 PM
Violence, the way to not solve all of your problems.
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*Unless it's Avatara, of course."
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Posted 07 December 2002 - 07:07 PM
:sigh:
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Posted 10 December 2002 - 03:52 AM
Why are you sighing journalist? It is perhaps, that you feel you are incapable of dicharging the duties of a webboard idiot.
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Posted 12 December 2002 - 02:29 PM
What's "dicharging"? Or is that a misspelling that I can't figure out?
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Posted 12 December 2002 - 11:18 PM
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What's "dicharging"? Or is that a misspelling that I can't figure out?
What's "dicharging"? Or is that a misspelling that I can't figure out?
It is a mispelling that isn't at all difficult to figure out (discharging [I assume]).
Huh huh...you said "dic".
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Posted 13 December 2002 - 06:14 PM
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What's "dicharging"? Or is that a misspelling that I can't figure out?
What's "dicharging"? Or is that a misspelling that I can't figure out?
Oops. In my rush to inflict emotional suffering on you I seem to have forgotten the 's' key.
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Posted 19 December 2002 - 08:19 PM
Mack = jackass
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Posted 19 December 2002 - 09:57 PM
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u homo fudgepacker just shut your stupid fudgepacking hole
u homo fudgepacker just shut your stupid fudgepacking hole
I'll be honest, I know nothing about you except your insult. You could even be one of the board members in disguise (I doubt). But whatever you think about me, you're definately wrong.
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