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I believe the winners sister once dated some guy in the US Navy who knew a pilot that once served. 
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Explains it falling off then
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I just cannot believe how well we are doing in the rankings, and good on them.. Nice to see all the services along the course of the marathon applauding the athletes and seeming to be having a good time at all the events.
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Ahem. Well we got a nice new road out of it, that we're still paying for. And a nice new stadium for the Braves. And the university has some halls for its students that used to be the Olympic village.
But yeah, downtown ATL might as well be downtown Soweto with shiny buildings.
But yeah, downtown ATL might as well be downtown Soweto with shiny buildings.
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they don't take that attitude in the USA
here in the UK we haul up a flag and then leave it to weather to a rag (look outside any big hotel)
In the USA it's sacred ..... they have Flag Laws etc etc
comes of being a newly independent nation I guess
here in the UK we haul up a flag and then leave it to weather to a rag (look outside any big hotel)
In the USA it's sacred ..... they have Flag Laws etc etc
comes of being a newly independent nation I guess
Just a Flag....to the Obama's and some others maybe....but not to Americans. We see it as the symbol of our Nation and remember how it represents a nation forged by combat against an oppressive government....a war that made us very free people and gave birth to a Nation founded upon Individual Liberty.
Nope....not just a piece of Cloth folks....we see things a bit differently on this side of the Salt Water Divide.
That being said...we would be just as aghast at what happened had it been the Nigerian flag....well not actually,,,but bothered to some extent as we should all be at such a thing happening. Cannot they get something this simple....done properly?
Nope....not just a piece of Cloth folks....we see things a bit differently on this side of the Salt Water Divide.
That being said...we would be just as aghast at what happened had it been the Nigerian flag....well not actually,,,but bothered to some extent as we should all be at such a thing happening. Cannot they get something this simple....done properly?
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That being said...we would be just as aghast at what happened had it been the Nigerian flag....well not actually,,,but bothered to some extent as we should all be at such a thing happening.
As to your final, typically daft, supercilious question:
Cannot they get something this simple....done properly?
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In the USA it's sacred ..... they have Flag Laws etc etc
The 'conversation' took place after the Giant Voice banquet in the O Club dining room after copious libations, so perhaps wasn't really all that serious.
We agreed with a B-52 captain and his BN that UK hono(u)r would only be satisfied by the 'donation' of a suitable 'gizzit' - so one of those very posh Stars and Stripes jobs, complete with gold tassels and cords, mounted on a pole stuck up a golden duck's arse, found its way into the unsuspecting DetCo's golf bag, which we were taking back to the UK in our mighty Tin Triangle. But we had to assure the Buff chums that Old Glory would be treated respectfully.
And so it was.....until it was auctioned off at the 35 Sqn disbandment dinner at RAF Scampton some years late and £25 went into the bar kitty!
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"Cannot they get something this simple....done properly? "
Pot - kettle -black
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and that was the US marines - with the CANADIAN flag upside down...............
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and that was the US marines - with the CANADIAN flag upside down...............
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"as auctioned off at the 35 Sqn disbandment dinner at RAF Scampton some years late and £25 went into the bar kitty!"
So THAT's where it came from - we turned it into a rug for the dog's basket.............
So THAT's where it came from - we turned it into a rug for the dog's basket.............