cecil,
i wanted to comment on an article i read about the f word. from what i read in your article, the f word and the middle finger raising actually goes back even further. if i remember correctly it started back in mid evil times with the british. thier archers would raise their middle finger at their enemies and chant pluck you, meaning that they would pluck their middle finger from their hands rendering them useless. hard to pull the string on a bow with no middle finger. with the years it is believed that it has evolved into raising the middle finger and saying fuck you instead.