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
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