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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 10 June 2008 - Volume 06<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Pat Reynolds</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk">pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "History" 2008.06.10 (01) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In message <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:57c981290806100713h13ba4cc9i7cf1be258c401c9f@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">57c981290806100713h13ba4cc9i7cf1be258c401c9f@mail.gmail.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>, Lowlands-L List <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> writes</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: Luc Hellinckx <<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "History"<br>
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Subject: LL-L "History" 2008.06.07 (06) [E]<br>
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I doubt it has anything to do with the Dutch flag. Red, white, and blue flags with open on them are common all over Texas.<br>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
My earlier comment that the choice of red white and blue stripes might
be preferred over say green white and orange stripes is that
US-Americans (don't know about Canadian-Americans or other kinds)
sometimes have very strong feelings about how/where their national flag
is used.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I was once with someone who 'preferred not to look' at a little boy
(?five years old) who was wearing swimming trunks with the
stars-and-stripes on them. Most people outside the US would not have a
problem with this use on clothing. Indeed, our national football
strips sometimes mirror our national flags. But someone in the US who
wanted to put up an 'open' flag might think that putting up the
stars-and-stripes with the word 'open' on it was very inappropriate.
The stripes and colours of the Netherlands flag could, therefore, be a
nod to the orthopraxy of flying the star-and-stripes without actually
'dishonouring' the US flag.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Cheers,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Pat</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
-- <br>
Pat Reynolds<br>
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It may look messy now ...<br>
... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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