Tweets for Today

[rikibeth]

• 14:40 Interview #
• 15:40 everyone please think happy hiring thoughts for me, that interview went awesome and I would LOVE the job #
• 16:28 C did not get cast in the musical. Probably because her science teacher spoke to director about grades. #
• 17:25 @theredshoes package en route. #
• 17:37 Mailed thank you note to interviewer when I mailed @theredshoes' pkg. Hope it impresses him. #
• 17:46 Allegedly the Hartford Children's Theater wireless is unsecured. But I can't get anything to load. #
• 17:51 This is not fair. I've felt PMSy for a week and no relief yet. #
• 20:20 @angevin2 is flipping the bird documented to Elizabethan era? Inquiring minds want to know. #
• 20:20 @theredshoes you need disability payments. because you ARE, dammit. it's like mono. #
• 21:20 aleve + kava + wendy's chocolate frosty spun shake + acupressure band = cramps under tolerable control. finally. #

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thanks for the opportunity to be an internet bloviator...

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

The shakespearean version is immortalized in Romeo and Juliet. "No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I do bite my thumb, sir!"

Appendix A of Geoff Hughes Swearing is a brief treatment of body language, but isn't as detailed as his many chapters on words.

Basically, Hughes suggests that "giving the fico" (biting the thumb) was the elizabethan version and sometime before 1771 it was either supplanted or joined by flipping the bird.

Wikipedia thinks it's the same as the Ancient Roman digitus impudicus ("impudent finger"), but it doesn't prove it. Their source is this history of "the finger".

Re: thanks for the opportunity to be an internet bloviator...

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

(biting the thumb) was the elizabethan version and sometime before 1771 it was either supplanted or joined by flipping the bird.

That explains a few things about Siskel and Ebert. By the way, while reading a book of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons, I discovered what 'dork' really means.

[bigbrotherinlaw.livejournal.com]

happy, Happy, HAPPY

Re: thanks for the opportunity to be an internet bloviator...

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

I discovered what 'dork' really means.

"I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while."

Re: thanks for the opportunity to be an internet bloviator...

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.