**What the :flipoff: dude is for**

[SR5Dave]

Originally Posted by TwistedCreations

well that knocks out half this board


ohh and Dave- since rick is getting close to canada, aren't you getting a little to close to Mexico

OLE!

[PastryLikeDood]

n. used to show joking and/or ha ha's. Not to be taken seriously. Its a joke.

[jtothec]

Thanks dave for clarifying. I tried to point out the silly over use of the green dude in a different post by way over using it but im not sure that anyone got it. I'm done with the green guy, its so 2004

[JasonInAugusta]

You know what?

the in' ers that misuse the emoticon.

[badger]

Originally Posted by JasonInAugusta

You know what?

the in' ers that misuse the emoticon.

Well said!

[SR5Dave]

Ok.. I know we're all just joking, but I don't want to give newbies the wrong impression.

The guy is not the F word.

[TwistedCreations]

well FAWK!!!!!!!!

[Fishmaxx]

that

[kwj48]

Hey i'm a noob and haven't used yet. ooops just did. sorry

[minitrucker]

I know this is an old post but people are still using it alot. To me its lame and I have never used it. Wouldnt it be easier to just get rid of the stupid thing?

[TwistedCreations]

no but we need to have an actual emoticon that states what people think it means. like a few of these

[blazed]

Originally Posted by Plays_with_Toys

Just because I can't 'ing spell axel doesn't mean you have to harp on me

Geez, next you're going to tell everyone to start using periods If I want to make a sentence incoherrant it is my god given right Who the are you to tell me that I can't speel or using garmmer rightly?

yea yea i kcan rread youer typing tooop
bros from diffent hoes

[Plays_with_Toys]

If you see mods using the guy, its usually when we are being really sarcastic with one another. I don't really use it for any other purpose and most others don't either I think. Its when you want to make fun of someone like you would your friend who just stepped in dog crap.

[Mazlem]

Originally Posted by Plays_with_Toys

If you see mods using the guy, its usually when we are being really sarcastic with one another. I don't really use it for any other purpose and most others don't either I think. Its when you want to make fun of someone like you would your friend who just stepped in dog crap.

I think it's more like bull crap... Either way it's better than pig or chicken crap!

[SR5Dave]

Josh, the icon is the best thing to ever happen to the internet.

Unfortunately we're surrounded by total morons

[blazed]

oh wow..............need pain pills

[SR5Dave]

Originally Posted by blazed

oh wow..............need pain pills

I can imagine. Please take too many.

[Rufies97XJ]

[a_vdk]

Shooting the bird' rude, crude but legal
Appeals court overturns conviction
By THOM MARSHALL
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle


Using the hand signal rooted in ancient times and popularly known today as "shooting the bird" may be rude, but it's not necessarily disorderly conduct, a Texas appeals court has ruled.

At issue for the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin was whether Robert Lee Coggin incited "an immediate breach of the peace" when he allegedly gestured at a motorist with his raised middle finger two years ago as the former Lockhart resident tailgated a slow-moving vehicle in the left lane of U.S. 183.

Coggin was charged under an obscure state law that says "a person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly makes an offensive gesture or display in a public place, and the gesture or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace."

A jury last year convicted Coggin, 34, and fined him $250 for making "an offensive gesture by raising his middle finger in a public place," a finding that the appeals court reversed.

Coggin, an electrical engineer who now lives in Austin, denies he made the gesture, and, on the advice of his wife and a friend who urged him to "do what you got to do," spent $15,000 on attorney fees in pursuit of justice.

The quirky saga began in October 2001 on Colorado Street in Lockhart, which also is U.S. 183. Coggin, driving a souped-up Chevrolet Caprice that once did service as a police unit, came upon a vehicle driven by John Pastrano, a Caldwell County jailer. Coggin followed Pastrano's car closely, flashed his lights and motioned for the vehicle to move to the right lane.

Pastrano, thinking he was being stopped by a police car, move into the right lane, court records show. As Coggin passed Pastrano, he allegedly gestured with his raised middle finger.

Pastrano testified later that the incident angered him and he called 911. Lockhart police stopped Coggin and, after conferring with Pastrano, who was called to the scene by the dispatcher, wrote Coggin a ticket for the Class C misdemeanor of "disorderly conduct -- gesture."

Pastrano, 24, who now works for the Hays County Sheriff's Department in San Marcos, could not be reached Tuesday for comment.

Chief Justice Kenneth Law wrote in his dissenting opinion that the case did have "all of the ingredients for immediate violence" and that "one must ignore the reality of modern life to not recognize that many instances of `road rage' begin in such a manner."

His colleagues on the 3rd Court disagreed, noting "the evidence was legally insufficient to establish that (Coggin's) gesture tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace." They reversed the conviction and ordered acquittal.

But the court didn't stop there, offering context and history to the episode.

The court's majority opinion, filed Thursday, quoted a Merriam-Webster OnLine definition of the "bird" as "an obscene gesture of contempt made by pointing the middle finger up while keeping the other fingers down."

The jurists further explained that "the middle finger jerk was so popular among the Romans that they even gave a special name to the middle digit, calling it the impudent finger: digitus impudicus.

"It was also known as the obscene finger, or the infamous finger, and there are a number of references to its use in the writings of classical authors. ... " the jurists continued. "The middle-finger jerk has survived for over 2,000 years and is still current in many parts of the world, especially in the United States."

Coggin said he felt exonerated and doesn't regret spending the money.

"It vindicates me," he said.

[a_vdk]

You are saying it does not mean the same thing as these? Just to get a little clarification