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Found this thought is relevant.

I was under the impression the two finger salute had something to do with a war, where a king ordered the index and middle finger cut from all archers hands so they could no longer shoot, the sign then became an insult by showing the king you still had your fingers. Like a big "fook you"

too soon

I want to say that most cultures have an "up yours" gesture of some sort involving a hand punching up with some kind of finger gesture, but that's probably my ethnocentrism speaking.

Not really ethnocentric. The phallic symbolism is pretty much global. Though one or two cultures prefer to make a round shape, indicating a different set of genitalia are in play.

In rural Greece, showing the palm of the hand (link covers many types of "finger") is the rudest gesture you can make. If you go there, don't wave at anyone. Really.

In the USA, making a "V" sign is always a good sign; meaning victory, or success, or maybe just "two". In the UK, if the knuckles face inwards, it means "victory" or "good". If they face outwards, it's the equivalent of the US middle-digit. Not polite. At all. I remember being momentarily stunned when a guy on a market in NYC indicated a price of two dollars by, apparently, gesturing that I should F-Off. It took my UK-based American friend who was next to me to remind me that "honey, we ain't in Kansas any more." And everyone finds those pictures of Sir Winston Churchill doing it the wrong way around very amusing indeed. It's like a photo of JFK flipping the bird at an entire crowd, who cheer him as he does so.

But don't forget that it's all the work of Satan! (I think they're just trying to sell Dancing Jesus boxer-shorts: "Is that Jesus in your pants, or are you just happy to Praise the Lord?")

Apparently someone didn't read the talking points sent out in last week's media packet!

"grill shape"

Other types of tasty grill that might be worth a try include:

• How To Eat Cats
  
  
• How to Eat Cats
  
  
• Cat Stew
  
  
• The Quick Brown Fox Ate the Orange Cat

(Worksafe)

I was so broke, I couldn't even afford to feed my cat let alone myself.

There's such an obvious solution [WARNING: the squeamish should not click this link] sharing you in the face here....

All together now.

How can someone be so hungry to try to eat a laptop??? This is almost as disgusting as eating cats ...

>Bill Gates
>A, B, C, D, E, F, G, ... oh, you get the picture.

Order yours now! Call 1-800-ABCDEFG and have your credit card ready! (Kids, ask your parents for help before calling). Sorry, no Personal Cheques or CODs.

(For all those outside North America)

How to cook a cat.
This site has a number of links of how to cook and skin cats, complete with diagrams. Also, the prefered method of killing a cat is a .22 bullet to the head. Anyways, anyone who really wants to learn more should use google.

Dangerous Masturbatory Habits

Men and women will go to great lengths to give themselves sexual satisfaction. Sometimes the results are not what was hoped for. One book mentions the case of a man who tried to masturbate by putting his penis into the sucking end of a vacuum-cleaner. The result was that all the skin was sucked off the penis. This method of masturbation "is not therefore recommended." P. Mantegazza has instanced the case of a penis caught in a bayonet tube and in the bath tub faucet. Many similar such cases are known to doctors and diligent researchers.

LOL!

--Metrollica