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M¢25 Funded By Mahalo ? | July 29, 2009 07:10 AM

How did the "middle finger" gesture come about?

Was watching Dane Cook's Tourgasm, and found myself wondering this.

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July 29, 2009 07:34 AM

In Ancient Greece it was used to mean someone was sexually inferior to them... This is debated... that the "anthropologists that the finger is a a variant of a classic "phallic aggressive" - ooze.com
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