Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:58:19 -0500

From: Mark Mandel Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM

Subject: "the bird"



My daughter inquires about the origin of

1. the American rude gesture known as "flipping the bird", which

is not really within the domain of this list, and

2. its name, which is.

Can anyone help?



Mark A. Mandel : mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dragonsys.com

Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200

320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/

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