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Peter Mackenzie:

Just a question. I noticed that in one of the pictures, one of the guys was flippin' the bird (holding up the middle finger) and I though that in Western Europe, and the UK, you guys' used the sheep shag, two-finger salute...what's the deal? I am just really curious, I am kind of an amateur anthropologist.

Tallgirl.

Actually, with the bi-digitted salute it was originally also used to show you had had sex with the other person's wife.

Here's a bit I found on the two-fingered salute (known as 'the vikkies' where I grew up if anyone cares).

The word f-*-c-k is actually older than the Hundred Years War. I think Genghis Khan used it.

Popular myth: modern archaeology proves that the longbow actually had almost no impact on the outcome of the Battle Of Agincourt - the French Men-at-Arms all wore newly-invented steel armour at the battle which was virtually impervious to the English longbow bodkins which were only made of soft iron. Also, longbows were only fired in the early stages of the battle, the English archers doing most of their fighting almost exclusively hand-to-hand. What actually did the French in (apart from the obvious fact that, well, y'know, they were French ) was the fact that they had many times more men than they needed and than the size of the battlefield could hold - this added to the weight of their armour (compared to the comparatively armourless English), their complete lack of coordination or effective leadership and the incredibly muddy conditions meant that many of them were simply crushed to death in the melee..... The actual reason that Henry V used so many archers in his campaign wasn't because of their effectiveness, but because of their cost (an archer cost half as much to hire as a Man-at-Arm did). It isn't coincidental that the archer died out as a serious weapon on the battlefield very soon after.

Another interesting fact about the battle that you never see in the movies for some reason, is the fact that most of the English were suffering from dysentery at the battle, and many of them had to fight naked from the waist down for reasons of... errrr.... shall we say.... convenience.....

Do not insult the relevance of archery.

Dudes, kindly take this BS somewhere else. The recent posts have absolutely nothing to do with the thread of this item.

Jerry Newport

If the pot calls the kettle black, it in no way implies that the pot is not also black. Perhaps the pot just likes to remind the kettle of how both are black, since the kettle seems to forget on occasion.