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Thread #171987   Message #4161860
Posted By: GUEST,Hootenanny
09-Jan-23 - 11:17 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Mystery gesture
Subject: RE: Folklore: Mystery gesture
I have always taken it to mean "Bollocks".

In the army if the tune of Colonel Bogey came up instead of singing "Hitler has only got one ball" that phrase was replaced with "Bollocks and the same to you".

The V sign that is reverse way to that used by Churchill.