Here direct from guys at PIGAZETTE .COM are their weekly awards. Here's the first, click the link for the rest.
FROM PIGAZETTE.COM:

KULTURE | GOLDEN OINKS AWARDS 2008
Every week, the PIG staff buries the hatchet - invariably in one another - and sits down for our weekly awards selection shouting match, punchout and melee. Battered, bruised, and amazed that we survived another contentious confab, we try to muster a some semblance of professionalism while we salute those Standup Guys and Gals and administer bitch-slaps on the richly deserving. Originally named Props And Chops we decided to give this awards page a more illustrious name: Golden Oinks 2008.
PIG's Golden Oinks Selection Committee singles out the following individuals and/or groups for special PIG attention.

Date Awards Conferred: February 08, 2008

Stand-Up Guys 'n Gals

Heroes of the Week: This honor is shared by the 12 leading Danish newspapers that reprinted this Kurt Westergaard Muhammad cartoon. The papers were responding to the news that the proper authorities just broke up terrorist plot to murder this courageous Danish cartoonist. With the trio of Jihadikazes - a pair of Tunisian scumbags and a Danish citizen of Moroccan origin - in a graybar suite, the newspapers got into the Jihadikazes face, again, like they did when they printed 12 Muhammad cartoons on September 30, 2005.
Obviously, the Danes are still pissed about the Jihadikaze rampages that followed their September 2005 exercise in free speech:
"We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper will always defend," said the Copenhagen-based Berlingske Tidende. (Contra Costa Times)
We salute the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that continues to employ Kurt Westergaard. We also salute the other 11 newspapers that joined Jyllands-Posten in republishing Westergaard’s cartoon.
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Battle of Agincourt

Once again I have stooped low to swipe someone else's prose. As usual I picked on PIGAZETTE, the internet magazine of irreverence and belly laughs for the new millennium.
FROM PIGAZETTE.COM:
TODAY'S TASTY TIDBITS

Today is the 592nd anniversary of the stunning victory by the English over the French at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. I seriously doubt that the following item is, in fact, the origin of the infamous one-finger salute. True or not, it’s well written and it made us laugh, so here it is, just the way it landed in our e-mail inbox
The History of the Middle Finger

Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified. Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew").

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."

IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!

And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.