When You Need A Laugh

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I needed that today!

Oh man love it when someone gets me started on thinking of humor....
Thanks for this. <3

Laughing out loud with YOU- gentle hug.

You guys made my day!  I started working at 5:30 am, and I needed this so badly!

Thank you Sheri for opening up our mouths today

Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled 

to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified..... 

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, 

proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle 

finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they 

would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of 

the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking 

the yew' (or 'pluck yew'). 

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and they began 

mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we 

can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, 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! It is also because of the pheasant feathers

on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.' 

And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing. Didn't yew!!

And here is another example where we aren't directly talking about smoking, yet, somehow, all these smiles can make a quitter's day better, while getting an upgrade on world history