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Re: Union Jack

To: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: Union Jack
From: The English Connection <engconn@pottsville.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 19:28:48 -0400
W. R. Gibbons wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 May 1997, The English Connection wrote:
> 
> > While it is most gratifying to hear of American enthusiasts painting
> > Union Jacks on their cars, perhaps you should all wait a bit before
> > taking the plunge.  If, possibly, you have been reading the Electronic
> > Telegraph on-line, as I do most days to keep informed about world
> > events, you will have read in the past couple of days about some
> > brainless peasant commissioned by an obscure and probably brain dead
> > British government department recommending that Great Britain give up
> > using the word Great as a prefix to Britain, that the National Anthem be
> > changed, and the Union Jack abandoned, all in favour of a bunch of
> 
> I heard the consultant interviewed on the radio.  His firm specializes in
> creating new identities for corporate clients.  He came up with the
> recommendations on his own, to publicize his firm.
> 
> I suppose counter suggestions are in order.  I find the Union Jack
> attractive, but it would be helpful if the top border had the words,
> "This Edge Up" printed conspicuously.
> 
>    W. R. Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
>                   Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
>                   gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8629


Yes, that's a good idea.  Certainly sort out a lot of confusion.  Just
so long as it didn't have a small oval gold label on the bottom reading
"Made in Taiwan".

Geoff Love.

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