| floating white bear | 05 Aug 2010 5:56 a.m. PST |
I am looking at converting some figures to use for dismounted rebel cav. I see Peter Pig has some "rude" infantry and I wondered what the ACW-period equivalent of the "finger" was? Rob. |
| docdennis1968 | 05 Aug 2010 6:56 a.m. PST |
Rather off the beaten track question, but I must admit I would like to know also!! |
| Hauptmann6 | 05 Aug 2010 7:52 a.m. PST |
Do you know about the word? |
| Jerzei Balowski | 05 Aug 2010 7:57 a.m. PST |
Everyone's heard that the bird is the word! |
79thPA  | 05 Aug 2010 8:26 a.m. PST |
The ACW equivalent of the finger was the finger. It is not a new insult. |
| Windward | 05 Aug 2010 8:50 a.m. PST |
digitus impudicus goes back to Greek and Roman times. link So I would say its accurate. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 05 Aug 2010 9:08 a.m. PST |
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| floating white bear | 05 Aug 2010 1:27 p.m. PST |
Thanks. Now to green stuff some little fingers… Rob. |
 Doms Decals  | 05 Aug 2010 1:30 p.m. PST |
I was not aware that the bird is the word…. |
| EJNashIII | 05 Aug 2010 2:55 p.m. PST |
A reenactor friend got his ancestor's civil war records. In the folder was a letter and formal charges from a Colonel of a Mass Regiment. Apparently, the Maryland private had got into a fight with some of the New England troops stationed near Maryland Heights. When the Colonel broke up the fight the private repeatedly called the colonel a "Massachusetts son of a bitch". |
 Der Alte Fritz | 05 Aug 2010 10:13 p.m. PST |
I had read that the F-bomb goes back to at least the Roman Empire. |
| jawjatek | 06 Aug 2010 5:02 a.m. PST |
I can't speak for Maryland Heights, but if you call someone a "Massachusetts s.o.b." south of Atlanta then IT IS ON! |
snapped some photos of games he didn't get a chance to play in at Council of Five Nations.