[geeks]

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:45:19PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> Cue urban legend about it being used by English archers to show the
> French that they still had their fingers intact. 

An incorrect UL, IIRC, based on the fact that the French would cut off
the left thumbs of captured English archers, leaving them unable to hold
a bow.  (Fairly humane for the time, when you think about it.  It left
their right hand intact and left them still able to, say, work a farm.)
English archers taunted the French by holding up their left thumbs, not
their right fingers as is widely thought.


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