Hoot, did you say you liked roosters and helmets?

[cpm9ball]

 

I know it isn't exactly what you meant, but................................I need the practice.

 

Chris

[Hoot]

Roosters and helmets? Those are some of the most cocky effigies I've ever seen on a medal! You've got to help me out here, Chris, with the symbolism, 'cause if I had a rooster on my head, I'd be spurred to madness.

 

Great medals, BTW!

 

Hoot

[cpm9ball]

Roosters and helmets? Those are some of the most cocky effigies I've ever seen on a medal! You've got to help me out here, Chris, with the symbolism, 'cause if I had a rooster on my head, I'd be spurred to madness.

 

Great medals, BTW!

 

Hoot

 

That's right, you said angels and roosters! Pardon my faux pas. When I am able to remove the cockspurs from my scalp, I'll send him to you.

 

C H R I S

[Stanley]

Is the rooster a symbol in France like our Eagle?

[Hoot]

Pardon my faux pas.

 

It's your hind paw that concerns me.

 

Rooster like the bald eagle? We should have an effigy of Liberty with an eagle nesting in her hair. Or perhaps a draped bust with the eagle poking its head out of her cleavage. That's a coin I'd buy.

 

Hoot

[cpm9ball]

Is the rooster a symbol in France like our Eagle?

 

Apparently so, but instead of soaring like an eagle, it just scratches in the dirt and chickens#!t.

 

Chris

[kryptonitecomics]

Makes me want some KFC right now........coin collecting can sure make you hungry

[MikeKing]

Those are incredible pieces. And Hoot...you are entirely pornographic...shame on you.

All joking aside, the Coq Gaulois = the Gallic Rooster was used on the French Flag during the revolution.

Now who's being pornographic????

[HaydenTubbs]

Makes me want some KFC right now........coin collecting can sure make you hungry

 

 

 

 

 

Oh,nice medals Chris!

[Oldtrader3]

Does the french Coq Gaulois mean Chicken in war, Roosterish in peace?

[cpm9ball]

Does the french Coq Gaulois mean Chicken in war, Roosterish in peace?

 

[EZ_E]

Does the french Coq Gaulois mean Chicken in war, Roosterish in peace?

 

 

The History of the Middle Finger

 

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.

 

Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?

 

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 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 labiodentals

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."

 

IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!

 

 

And yew thought yew knew everything!

[Stanley]

 

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