Comments by "Clogs" (@clogs4956) on "History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday" channel.

You didn’t let me down! You did Henry I’s surfeit of palfreys! (q.v. “1066 and All That”.) Btw, that joke about figs? It had rude connotations. There is an ancient - and mildly obscene - hand gesture referred to as a fig, which is supposed to ward off the Evil Eye, being a representation of.. er… external female reproductive organs.
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