There's a flag of unknown origin that I keep seeing at Rock & Roll 
events. Of course, a flag, being a bunch of colours, cannot be searched 
with Google.

Actually, you know what? Unbelievably, it *can* be searched. And here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Confederate_Rebel_Flag.svg

This still leaves the question "WTF is this flag doing on dance 
fliers?", but you really can't Google that...

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> This still leaves the question "WTF is this flag doing on dance 
> fliers?", but you really can't Google that...

  The confederate "rebel" flag was adopted by some fans as the emblem of
rockabilly, which is probably why it's so tied to rock&roll, especially
in the Southern US.

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On 19/04/2011 16:51, Warp wrote:
>    The confederate "rebel" flag was adopted by some fans as the emblem of
> rockabilly, which is probably why it's so tied to rock&roll, especially
> in the Southern US.

Damn. I had no idea you knew so much. That's pretty impressive.

PVMoNNTP truly is the search technology of the decade...

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On 4/19/2011 8:31, Invisible wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Confederate_Rebel_Flag.svg

Being in the USA, it boggles my mind that anyone wouldn't know what this 
flag is. But then, thinking on it, there's no reason anyone outside the USA 
should really know what this is.

> This still leaves the question "WTF is this flag doing on dance fliers?",
> but you really can't Google that...

Some people are still proud of the fact that their ancestors fought to the 
last breath to keep slaves, and many feel they never should have lost in the 
first place.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    driving without turn signals."

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 19/04/2011 16:51, Warp wrote:
> >    The confederate "rebel" flag was adopted by some fans as the emblem of
> > rockabilly, which is probably why it's so tied to rock&roll, especially
> > in the Southern US.

> Damn. I had no idea you knew so much. That's pretty impressive.

  I didn't. I had a vague notion, but not concrete knowledge. But there's
this thing called google, and that another thing called wikipedia. They are
pretty useful. I don't know if you have heard of them.

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Darren New escreveu:
> On 4/19/2011 8:31, Invisible wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Confederate_Rebel_Flag.svg
> 
> Being in the USA, it boggles my mind that anyone wouldn't know what this 
> flag is. But then, thinking on it, there's no reason anyone outside the 
> USA should really know what this is.

I think most people know more about USA history than they even should. 
But I really never saw that flag before.

>> This still leaves the question "WTF is this flag doing on dance fliers?",
>> but you really can't Google that...
> 
> Some people are still proud of the fact that their ancestors fought to 
> the last breath to keep slaves, and many feel they never should have 
> lost in the first place.

seemingly, they were fighting for their "property", not unlike land or 
equipment.

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Warp escreveu:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> This still leaves the question "WTF is this flag doing on dance 
>> fliers?", but you really can't Google that...
> 
>   The confederate "rebel" flag was adopted by some fans as the emblem of
> rockabilly, which is probably why it's so tied to rock&roll, especially
> in the Southern US.

rock, youth and rebellion go hand-to-hand and are all such BS illusion...

in any case, you don't see much rock these days in a dance party, do you?

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On 4/19/2011 9:49, nemesis wrote:
> I think most people know more about USA history than they even should. But I
> really never saw that flag before.

I believe it. It just startled me at first, until I thought about it. I 
mean, sure, it's a flag of a country that lasted like 3 years or something, 
and was gone 150 years ago, and really (unlike many historical countries) 
has no lasting effect on the rest of the world. No reason why anyone outside 
the USA should recognize the flag.  But it's sufficiently part of the 
culture here that I was a little surprised someone didn't recognise it.

It's like someone in the UK hearing "King George who?" I imagine.

> seemingly, they were fighting for their "property", not unlike land or
> equipment.

Well, yes. And you know, it's even understandable *then*. Not admirable to 
my sensibilities, but I can understand how someone would fight for it.

I'm disturbed by the people who are *still* advocating it, and who wave that 
flag about with pride, claiming they never really lost, they just retreated 
for a while. (Yes, we get some nutcases here.)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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On 19/04/2011 6:13 PM, Darren New wrote:
> I believe it. It just startled me at first, until I thought about it. I
> mean, sure, it's a flag of a country that lasted like 3 years or
> something, and was gone 150 years ago, and really (unlike many
> historical countries) has no lasting effect on the rest of the world. No
> reason why anyone outside the USA should recognize the flag.  But it's
> sufficiently part of the culture here that I was a little surprised
> someone didn't recognise it.
>

I would say that most people, of a certain age, would know that flag.
I've even seen it on bumper stickers in the UK.

> It's like someone in the UK hearing "King George who?" I imagine.

Which one, may I ask?

In case you're not sure (I've posted this before)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtYmq5qFVA

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     Stephen

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On 19/04/2011 05:08 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> On 19/04/2011 16:51, Warp wrote:
>>>     The confederate "rebel" flag was adopted by some fans as the emblem of
>>> rockabilly, which is probably why it's so tied to rock&roll, especially
>>> in the Southern US.
>
>> Damn. I had no idea you knew so much. That's pretty impressive.
>
>    I didn't. I had a vague notion, but not concrete knowledge. But there's
> this thing called google, and that another thing called wikipedia. They are
> pretty useful. I don't know if you have heard of them.

Except that you can't google vague notions, only concrete bits of text.

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