Flipping The Bird
from Slate
Cluck You - Why do we call giving someone the finger "flipping the bird"?
By Brian Palmer
Photo by Christopher Polk.
Madonna was upstaged at her own Super Bowl halftime show Sunday when guest performer M.I.A. extended her middle finger at the camera. When did we start calling this gesture "flipping the bird?"
The obscene gesture itself is far older than [...]
Cluck You - Why do we call giving someone the finger "flipping the bird"?
By Brian Palmer
Photo by Christopher Polk.
Madonna was upstaged at her own Super Bowl halftime show Sunday when guest performer M.I.A. extended her middle finger at the camera. When did we start calling this gesture "flipping the bird?"
The obscene gesture itself is far older than [...]
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