"the finger" in 1932 Hollywood epic

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> he calls the gesture "the bird"

Is there any known motivation for calling the finger "the bird"? Or is
it simply another, ah, sweet mystery of life? Is there any commection
between the finger and getting "fucked by the fickle finger of fate"?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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