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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