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

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, June 22, 2000, 16:12
Danny Wier wrote:

> USA! USA! USA! USA! > > (or, as Kelly Bundy would say: [u:s@])
No, that's a small town in Japan. 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". Of course, this seems comically quaint today, when "Made in Japan" is usually a sign of high quality rather than cheap knockoff. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)