The miscellaneous office supplies I ordered the other day at work had arrived. I opened the various packages and was left with one box, about 15″x15″. I opened the box and discovered the rubber bands I had ordered, a sole plastic pouch inhabiting the entire box with several plastic cushioned air protecting them? – what waste! WB Mason should be ashamed…..
YouTube – SARAH PALIN interview CHARLIE GIBSON – Part 1 of 2 – energy, God, war.
Makes me feel bad for her too in some odd way, she’s so out of her league, and crazy to boot.
Here’s an interesting story that was recently emailed to me, I’m not sure of it’s origin.
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?
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 defeat 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 libidinal 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.”
And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.
