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Originally Posted by kimlangley7
In the film LeMans .. Steve McQueen flips off the Ferrari driver at the end..
Why?
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I just finished watching LeMans on turner classics. Great racing footage. Beautiful film. McQueen smiles when he does it, so I take it to be a kidding gesture to his rival.
For the two finger salute, I kinda like this explanation...
According to a popular legend the two-fingers salute and/or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.[4][12] The story claims that the French claimed that they would cut off the arrow-shooting fingers of all the English longbowmen after they had won the battle at Agincourt. But the English came out victorious and showed off their two fingers, still intact.