aDCBeast Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2005 08:05AM
Hey look ma, the gorillas at the national zoo had a baby.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2005 11:52AM
aDCBeast, dude get a fucking life
jgoins Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2005 12:30PM
Beast, you have 3 more years of Bush and there is absolutely nothing you can do
about it.
aDCBeast Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2005 07:29PM
jgoins
Oh really .. by putting members of his administration in jail we can do a lot.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: December 15, 2005 09:53PM
and when is THAT trial? give it up, it's not going to happen
aDCBeast Report This Comment Date: December 16, 2005 10:56PM
You'll have to keep track along with the rest of us.
[
www.usdoj.gov]
They make updates when something changes.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: December 17, 2005 05:08PM
History of the Middle Finger
> >>>
> >>>Well, now .... here's something I never knew 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?
> >>>
> >>>Giving the Finger
> >>>
> >>>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 weapon 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!
> >>>
> >>>"PLUCK YEW!"
> >>>
> >>>Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult
consonant
> >>>cluster at the beginning has gradually hanged to a
labiodental
> >>>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."
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: March 14, 2006 07:41AM
sounds too good to be true.
