A U S T E L L, Ga., Sept. 28 -- A sixth-grader has been suspended for 10days because the 10-inch chain on her Tweety bird wallet violatesthe school district’s zero-tolerance weapons policy ...

Here’s how the middle finger became the most obscene digit. Ad Feedback. World. Africa ... The “finger” didn’t become the “bird” until the 1960s, writer Brian Palmer reported for Slate.

AUSTELL, Georgia (CNN) -- Cobb County schools Friday reversed the "zero tolerance" suspension of an 11-year-old girl for bringing a "weapon" to school -- a 10-inch long chain attached to a Tweety ...

The obscene gesture itself is far older than that, though. As many writers have pointed out, the middle finger became a symbol of the penis at least 2,500 years ago.In Aristophanes’ 423 B.C.E ...