Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/23/history-of-giving-the-finger.html
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Hmm. I thought long and hard about this, but after a while couldn’t take anymore and just had to let it go.
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Was this such a mystery? It seems pretty obvious that the extended finger represents the phallus, the curled fingers the testes, and the whole package means “fuck you.”
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I see what you did there
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Maybe it was George Carlin? Somewhere I recall a comedian with a great routine about the absurdity of “fuck you” as an insult. “Fuck me? . . . Well, I do have a date tonight and I’m hopeful.”
“Oh, and fuck you, too! Thank you very much.”
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Hence the popularity of “unfuck” as an epithet here.
Also, just for fun:
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I really, really don’t want to denigrate my alma mater in any way (and in this case I really don’t see any real reason to doubt the expertise cited), BUT this is not the first time Boing Boing has used a Windsorite as a supposed authoritative source:
Years ago, I regularly took the same bus as the so-called Grimace expert. While he seemed like a perfectly nice lad, I would question why, exactly, he possessed secret fast food wisdom??
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Oh shit, did I leave the window shade up?
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Leading of course to the inevitable existential schoolyard battle:
Fuck you!
Well unfuck you!
Yeah? Well unfuck your mother!!
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