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Naughty Grecians likely developed the phallic gesture around 2,500 years ago to offend each other. Here’s how the middle finger became the most obscene digit.
The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., the inspiration for the -gate suffix following the Watergate scandal.. This is a list of scandals or controversies whose names include a -gate suffix, by analogy with the Watergate scandal, as well as other incidents to which the suffix has (often facetiously) been applied. [1]
In Latin, the middle finger was the digitus impudicus, meaning the "shameless, indecent or offensive finger". [5] In the 1st century AD, Persius had superstitious female relatives concoct a charm with the "infamous finger" ( digitus infamis ) and "purifying spit" [ 27 ] [ 28 ] while in the Satyricon , an old woman uses dust, spit and her middle ...
The LED lights were arranged to represent the Mooninite characters Ignignokt and Err displaying the middle finger. [11] [12] Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said that the device "had a very sinister appearance. It had a battery behind it, and wires". [13] Others compared the displays to the Lite-Brite electric toy. [13]
The First Amendment includes the middle finger. While other cases had discussed the protection of vulgarity, like giving the middle finger, the 2019 case of Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas v.
This wasn’t just an ordinary win over a hated rival, it was a statement, a middle finger - actually two - to the Dawgs and the other schools who sprinted to the cash cows in the Big Ten, Big 12 ...
Neuman on Mad 30, published December 1956. Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad.The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body dates back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?"
Elsagate (derived from Elsa and the -gate scandal suffix) is a controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that were categorized as "child-friendly", but contained themes inappropriate for children. These videos often featured fictional characters from family-oriented media, sometimes via crossovers, used without legal permission.