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To: Heyworth

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FLAG!?


70 posted on 04/12/2006 11:47:51 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: Pyro7480
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FLAG!?

Okay, I work in a design-conscious field, so I'm oversensitive to these things, but our flag, though I love it, just isn't good design. Too literal, too busy. Sometimes it looks like one of those optical illusion things and seems to vibrate. Not the worst out there, but far from the best. Internationally, I think the Scandinavians take the flag prize, with Britain right behind. Japan is good. China's pretty good. There's something refreshing about Libya's just-plain-green rectangle. Nepal gets extra points for thinking outside the rectangle. Monaco and Poland (mirror images of each other) are good. The tricolor was good when just France had one, but once everyone jumped on that bandwagon they started to blur together. I kinda like Nauru's flag.

Now, I'm not for a second advocating changing it. It's historical now, while the SSB has only been the national anthem since 1931.

118 posted on 04/12/2006 12:15:20 PM PDT by Heyworth
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