"Bite Me" - How did this originate?

[agallag]

It's kind of like the now immortal:

Screw you guys, I'm going home

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Andrew

[Wombat]

I don't believe that story at all. 1,000 years ago, those words wouldn't have existed, nor predecessors all in one language.

I've heard the one about English bowmen. That has a little more credibility to me, but I still wouldn't take it as gospel.

[Werdna]

The story goes, that about 1000 years ago people used to have to get permission from the king to have a child, while the couple did the fun "work" that goes into getting a female pregnant they would have to hang a sign on their door. F.*.*.K. or Fornification Under Consent of King.

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 16 September 2000).]

[paulcs]

Some of those words existed a thousand years ago, but the Middle English for "king" was "cyning." Old English: "cynn."

The F-word, from what I understand, has it's origins in Sweden: fokka, to copulate.
The Dutch get some credit as well: fokken, to breed, as in to breed cattle.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Jorden]

Oy, leave us out of this, Paul If it isn't Cheese, it's fokken all of a sudden? - LOL

[Rags]

Wombat, the plucking archers is an origin of flipping the bird, or so I am told. FUQ was around then, too, but that's not what they were saying.

Rags

[RAB]

I can remember "Bite Me" from as far back as sixth grade - that's the mid sixties for me. So, Bart Simpson did not originate the phrase.

RAB

[Ali]

I heard it was Fornication or Unlawfull Carnal Knowledge.

I think that was a courtmarshal offence sometime back in the early 1900s.

[Jorden]

Or a Van Halen (also Dutch Paul ) album, Ali

[RAB]

Jord,
What are you doing up at 5:30AM? Better yet what am I doing up at 12:45AM here?
Good Night,
RAB

[Wombat]

Rags,
I do believe that the finger thing came from the archers. What I didn't really believe was that "pluck you" changed into something else.