Re: CHAT: Vexillology and games (was: Re: Flag ofEngland)

John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > John Cowan wrote [re a town called "Usa"]:
> > > When my father traveled to Japan in 1941 (one of the last Americans
> > > to do so, I daresay, before Pearl Harbor) he was told that there was
> > > a factory there that turned out things (I forget just what sort of
> > > things) stamped "Made in Usa".
> >
> > That sounds like an urban legend to me.
>
> Well, I wouldn't put it past my father to make the story up, and he's
> dead, so it can't be checked.  So maybe.
    I heard that story in the '60's, when Japanese products were still
considered inferior.  It was told as a joke, though.

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