Fact of the Day

SWP's back said:
strongbowholic said:
It actually comes from the USA and originated in about 1852. It comes from the Mormon community during the days that polygamy was permitted. It was originally used as a threat from one protagonist to the other - "I'm going to kill both your wives".

It rapidly came to mean "I'm gonna fuck both your wives" as that was seen as a more emasculating threat.

Over time it has simply come to mean "fuck off".
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Dubious. During my research for this fact, I referenced a book that has the ten most likely origins. The above is not one of them and it is most certainly English of origin.
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You did research?, Mark85 is going to be pissed off, a concept i do not think he has considered.
 
I'm sorry but that is the genuine reason it came about. It went out of fashion in the US as people began to mock Mormons. A new insult also came about during this period which was to "flip the bird" rather than "flick the V".

The practice migrated to the UK in the 1940s during World War II when Yanks stationed over here saw Churchill perform his Victory V which was sometimes reversed by him. GIs from the Mormon tradition would laugh at this and it spread through Army bases and out into villages, towns and cities in England from there.
 
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Love the random fight in that video. Not much changes in Yorkshire

As one of the Youtube subscribers noted to wide acclaim, so many people but none of them fat!
 
strongbowholic said:
I'm sorry but that is the genuine reason it came about. It went out of fashion in the US as people began to mock Mormons. A new insult also came about during this period which was to "flip the bird" rather than "flick the V".

The practice migrated to the UK in the 1940s during World War II when Yanks stationed over here saw Churchill perform his Victory V which was sometimes reversed by him. GIs from the Mormon tradition would laugh at this and it spread through Army bases and out into villages, towns and cities in England from there.
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You may be as sorry as you want, in the 1970s, anthropologist and author Desmond Morris made a detailed study of the history of the rude V-sign, and came up with ten possible explanations for its origin. His 1979 book, Gestures, Their Origin And Distribution, has a whole chapter on the sign, yet he does not even mention America, not Mormons.

As for coming to the UK in the 1940's, how do you explain the first recorded worldwide display of the V's in my video from 1901, in Sheffield.
 
The V sign was first used as a gesture of victory in ancient Phoenica.

If a person would a game of scissors, paper, rock with the scissor sign he would raise the scissors as a sign of victory.

This may or may not be a lie
 
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