Curly flip off

curly giving the finger......sort of.

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• stooges

[MrROTD]

It's just a finger, it looks like a penis and testicles, that the origin I believe of the finger!

[TexDad1971]

@MrROTD I've always thought that too.

[chanisco]

Actually it went all the way back to wars in old england. When english soldiers were captured the enemy cut off their middle fingers to make it impossible to fire a crossbow. So it was a gesture to show they were still able to fight and fire their weapons.

[TexDad1971]

@chanisco alot too many ppl have this wrong....and yes I know there are sites on the net that will tell you this. They need to be changed. People are confused. The story you refer to is the origins of the TWO finger salute in the UK. The bowmen used the index and middle fingers TOGETHER to draw back the bow....is why it was these 2 fingers that were cut off when captured. Not too many Americans know that the 2 fingers held up like a reverse peaces sign is considered offensive in the UK.

[TexDad1971]

@TexDad1971 yikes, take out the first word of my comment lol. Doesn't go there. And furthermore, we Americans think the 2 finger salute is something you must flash when someone is taking your picture. I don't know why.

[mnister17]

The middle finger gesture wasn't a negative gesture during that time, that is why it was allowed.

[TexDad1971]

@mnister17 Google "Old Hoss Radbourn Finger" and you'll find that it was considered rude even in 1886 in American culture that is. In other cultures, it goes back as far as 2,500 years.

[musicmanregina]

up yours mr censor!

[stillayl]

Back in those days, thumbing your nose at somebody was considered outrageous and probably obscene.

There was a comedian who got booted (and I think banned) from the Ed Sullivan show for doing exactly that.

[FightForUtopia]

That gesture is old, but it was obscure at the time. It was always obscene. In ancient Greco-Roman, it meant "You take cock up the ass". From generations of parents not teaching it to their kids, it would become obscure. So obscure, most people at this time wouldn't get it. Of course the Stooge's knew, they were savvy to rare cool things such as this, and this is done intentionally, as a sort of inside joke to the savvy few who would "get it".

[bol316]

@breanntheartist1989 Yes its from the Stooges short "Disorder In The Court"

[longfootbuddy]

he was flipping that bastard judge off, not moe

[KEVWARD63]

@TexDad1971

Correct ,

Both the 1 & 2 ( sometimes both together for extra effect ! ) salutes are used here in the UK as offensive signals. The 2 finger knuckle-front gesture is from the many wars against France , used by bowmen.

[ryansaif]

That Gailey chick in this short was so hot!!!!!

[breanntheartist1989]

Is this real?

[BandakaKush]

Curly flips off the judicial system.

[larcenyinc]

It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird".

[larcenyinc]

Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since "pluck yew" is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker", which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'f', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter.