P3D Plucking of Yew

[John Toeppen <toeppen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have some explanation of the salutation given by our Korean synthetic
3D porno artist.  Plucky fellow that he is, he is known to drop a few
"Ls" now and again.   I realize this reference that I have made may be
cryptic to some, and I offer an explanation in the way of a history
lesson at the end of this note.

I too am a proud owner of Danís disc.  I would like to think that this
will become the way to exchange files among content generators.  Perhaps
in the next round, people will generate the large high resolution
specifically for the CD.  At least a CD can carry the large (300K to
1meg) image files and download them quickly.
I prefer my files in Depth Charge.  Nothing like full screen full
color.  The JPS right/left is the most sensible format for us all to
use.
I donít send out for stereo mounting.  I became convinced that it was
more work to digitally clean a scratched slide than to mount them
carefully myself and scan in a clean slide.

Sincerely,  John Toeppen
drop by my URL for some eyecandy
http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/

A history lesson............

For those clean-minded individuals not knowing what a "bird" is, it is
the traditional Cape Town greeting, especially as used by motorists in
greeting Gauteng-ers and local taxi-drivers. (and Korean 3D artists)
The "Car Talk" show (on National Public Radio) with Click and Clack,
the Tappet Brothers, has a feature called "the Puzzler." Their most
recent "Puzzler" was about the Battle of Agincourt. The French, who
were overwhelmingly favored to win the battle, threatened to cut a
certain body part off of all captured English soldiers so that they
could never fight again. The English won in a major upset and waved
the body part in question at the French in defiance. The Puzzler was:
What was this body part? This is the answer submitted by a listener:
Dear Click and Clack,
Thank you for the Agincourt "Puzzler," which clears up some profound
questions of etymology, folklore, and emotional symbolism. The body
part which the French proposed to cut off of the English after
defeating them was, of course, the middle finger, without which it is
impossible to draw the renowned English longbow.
This famous weapon was made of the native English yew tree, and so the
act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking yew." Thus, when the
victorious English waved their middle fingers at the defeated French,
they said, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!"
Over the years, some "folk etymologies" have grown up around this
symbolic gesture. Since "pluck yew" is rather difficult to say (like
"pleasant mother pheasant plucker," which is who you had to go to for
the feathers used on the arrows), the difficult consonant cluster at
the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative "f,"
and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger
salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate
encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows
that the symbolic gesture is knows as "giving the bird."
And yew all thought yew knew everything!



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