On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 09:14:44PM -0400, paul stenquist wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2009, at 8:01 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: > >> >> >> John Sessoms wrote: >> >>> From: ann sanfedele >>> >>>> John Francis wrote: >>>> >>>>> >On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:51:26PM -0600, William Robb wrote: >>>>> > > >>>>> >>>> What about Asian cultures? kinda interesting actually >>>> >>>> ann >>>> >> >>> In some west asian cultures the index finger takes the place of the >>> middle finger we Americans use. >>> >>> The Japanese apparently use the middle finger, but that may be due >>> to the influence of American G.I.s post WWII. >>> >>> The British use the index and middle fingers. >>> >>> Legal argument regarding the digitus impudicus: >>> >>> http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/41-4_Robbins.pdf >>> >>> The index & pinky finger sign is a different fetish - one of them >>> being that a husband has an unfaithful wife especially in Italy, >>> Spain and the Spanish speaking countries of Latin America. >> > > The horns of the cuckold! Many references in literature, including > Shakespeare.
But, it would seem, generally meaning something slightly different if you went to school in Texas. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
