Saturday, July 05, 2014

 

Texas is better than Minnesota (in flags)


How can you not love the Texas flag?  It's simple, attractive, and represents something about the state (the "Lone Star").  I'm not crazy about having a pledge to a state flag, but the flag itself is pretty great.

Contrast that with what Minnesota has to offer:


What a terrible mess!  Elected one of the "Ten worst flags" by the North American Vexillological Association, it is cluttered with three different dates, a motto in French, 87 circles and 19 stars, a flower, and the horrifying scene of a Native American watching his land get plowed under by a white farmer.  Yikes!  Desecration of this flag is a misdemeanor under state law; really, it should be a civic duty.

Of course, when I lived there, Texas seemed to be going for the "Minnesota Flag Effect" with their license plates, which were littered with images of a cowboy, an oil derrick, the Space Shuttle, a cow, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a bunch of other stuff. 

Comments:
The only redeeming thing on this flag is the french motto "North Star"
 
You left out the grapefruit
 
And no, they did not include Blind Lemon Jefferson.
 
OK, wait... Blind Lemon is real. But someone else with a similar name is fake. This is killing me. It was some late 70's TV show or movie with a fake blues singer. He wasn't really blind...
 
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