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October 04, 2006
FOTWGLG
Some of you might have come across Josh Parsons' surreal "FOTWGLG" (Flags of the World Given Letter Grades), in which he...gives the flags of the world letter grades, along with helpful comments about how to improve. Well from this article on the BBC News website today, it looks as if Lesotho has been paying attention. Josh's main complaint was that the flag featured weapons. Here are Josh's thoughts on weapon-bearing flags in general:
If you are going to put a picture on your flag (in violation of rule 2a) why would you put pictures of the weapons that you are using to conduct a bloody repression of your citizens on it? This just doesn't make sense to me. Obviously countries like Afghanistan and Mozambique just aren't interested in the tourist dollars that you can get from not advertising the fact that you like to hack off the limbs of foreigners before shooting them and turning them into soap. Still, it's their loss.
The BBC reports:
The small mountain kingdom of Lesotho is marking its 40th anniversary of independence from the United Kingdom by flying a new more peaceful flag. The military emblem of a shield, spear and knobkerrie is replaced by a traditional cone-shaped hat on the blue, white and green flag.The hat worn by indigenous Basotho people was on the first independence flag but was replaced after a coup.
Lesotho says its new flag shows it "at peace with itself and its neighbours".
Coincidence?
Posted by logican at October 4, 2006 02:13 PM
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While I concede that it is not a flag... I fear that the US is not sufficiently at peace with itself to replace the bundle of 13 arrows in the left talon of the eagle on the US Seal anytime soon.
Posted by: devilnomore at October 8, 2006 03:08 AM