Try using the English flag of St. Edward. It's a white field with a
horizontal red cross and would be a lot easier to mask off.
I wonder if our friends OTOSOTP were to emblazon the deck of a, say...
Mustang or Corvette with the stars and stripes it would look half so
fetching
David F. Darby
Missouri, USA
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> Thomas James Pokrefke, III wrote:
> >
> > The time has come to respray my new (old) trunk lid. I have decided
against
> trying to match up the original paint and decided to just paint a Union
Jack
> on the boot.
> >
> > I would really hate to paint it upside down, so could someone tell me
the
> correct way to fly the Union Jack?
> >
> > Thomas James Pokrefke, III
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> 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
> so-called 21st.Century imagery. And apparantly, the new American owners
> of Joseph Lucas are also to abandon using the name Lucas here in the
> States.
>
> Would any listers care to suggest an alternative to the Union Jack? In
> view of the fact that apparantly there are now more practising Moslems
> in GREAT BRITAIN than there are Christians (the official religion),
> perhaps we all should shortly be considering painting Isalmic symbols on
> the boots of our MGs. I personally wouldn't give two hoots, (of a
> Lucas horn, naturally) if you painted the Iraqi flag upside down.
>
> Geoff Romberger, er, I mean Love.
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