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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: The Great American? Bird (obscene gestures)
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Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 12:33:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 17 12:33:57 1985
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In article <793@rtech.UUCP> bobm@rtech.UUCP (Bob Mcqueer) writes:
>I saw an item in the newspaper a while ago, in which the author stated in
>passing that the upraised middle finger as a rude gesture went back to the
>Roman Empire.
>                                          Can anyone verify this one?

Not exactly a verification, but I have allocated some neurons to remembering
that its Latin name is the "digitus impudicus", or "immodest finger".
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	Jim Gillogly
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