quite arbit..

a small piece i took from one of my friends pages on stumble....

History of the middle finger

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating
victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all
captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be
impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they
would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was
made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the
longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluckyew").

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset
and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the
defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! "PLUCK YEW!"
Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant
cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental
fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the
one-finger-salute!

It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with
the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."

and yew thought yew knew everthing...(this pertains especially to bhaand whose page title says that the answer to everything lies in his blog).

now coming back to the core of the discussion, the point i want to make is that there are so many things in our lives that we use without caring about how it came into being, how it works and such stuff..This is not a very good thing, especially when we are talking about something which is used as often as you take in that breath of air..(well, almost..being an IITian, i cant refute that fact). It made quite an interesting read the first time i read it and since then, its been there at the back of my mind cropping up whenever i feel absolutely jobless in life with perfectly nothing else to ponder about..but dont mistake me, this doesn't mean that the importance i assign to it is equal to what leftit cares for taking bath(that happens once in a fortnight, even that is becoming quite rare..). its as important as anything else in my life, be it my friends, my studies(what?!? studies? important?? oops, sorry. that was a big blunder) and just about everything else. now the point i want to make is (there i go again...) that we should care for anything and everything we utilise/use/misuse in our life, take enough time out of our precious lives, put sufficient enthu and get to know all details about it..right from the toothbrush we use in the morning to the "good morning" we say to the grub we eat to .....i mean what's te point in just using something and not caring at all to know anything else about it when its of so much use to us.

after a lot of thought and self-contradiction, i have come to the conclusion that all this has to do with the pace at which this world is moving. its going just so fast. as my roomie cupax(i consider him to have the best fundaes on living life in my wing) puts it,
"what is this life? full of care, no time to stand and stare"
i have often wondered how true those words are.

i dont know if this topic has any ending at all. i have no option but to leave it hanging at this stage as of now-all because of that basic elec quiz at 8 tomorrow. let me tell you thing before i depart-its the worest feeling to wake up in the morning and then, you have to write a test first up in the morning..but cant help it- i am not the diro here....