The “Middleman,” Debunking the Middle Finger

The Flipped Bird

Mr. Robert Ekas of Clackmas, Oregon, is an American. He becomes angry for being pulled over, and doesn't always agree with those who wear a uniform. His choice of self expression is often the use of his middle finger. In fact, Mr. Ekas came to the attention of the judicial system after he “flipped the bird” at a sheriff's car in 2007. After being issued a traffic citation for disorderly conduct from the police officer he insulted; Mr. Ekas gestured again, this time through his sunroof, as he drove away. In disagreement with his traffic citation, he brought the case through the judicial system. The court sided with Mr. Ekas ruling in support of our first amendment right and dropped the charges, leaving Mr. Ekas to be acquitted.

“I bite my Thumb at You Sir...”

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The English walked the field tripping over entombed limbs with their fingers still attached after the battle. Later declared a victory for England, the battle is often depicted as the beginning of the finger insult. The English, with victory running through their veins, taunt the remaining French by raising their fingers in the air, and with defiant voiced shout, “See we can still pluck yew!”

“Pheasant Mother Plucker!”

The movement of calling attention to the finger, “giving the bird,” according to A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil's Storehouse of Human Knowledge, may have started from the pheasant feathers used as fletching on arrows. The man the feathers were bought from was often called a “pheasant mother plucker” because he plucked the feathers from mother pheasants.

As the tale traveled through time the “pl” shifted into an “f” and “yew” became “you.” This shift in diction is also accompanied by one finger instead of the previous two. I'll leave you to read between the lines, you pheasant mother plucker, yew.

“The Digitus Imfamis or the Digitus