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Something's definitely wrong here...

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Descriptive tags: flag sailing 

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a.k.a. Why you shouldn't hire cross-eyed people to work in a flag factory.

On our sailing trip with Göran and Saga-Britt, the topic of conversation turned to the tradition of having a flag on deck to show the boat's country of origin.

S: You should really replace that ratty flag of yours...

G: Yeah, I already bought one, but it was so big. I didn't know it would be a hundred centimeters across. It's there behind you, Joy. Can you hand it over?

(G receives the still unopened plastic package containing the flag. He unfurls the contents, which was indeed as large a coffee table).

S: It's gigantic!

(We laugh. Then, a moment of silence while we all try to figure out what's wrong...)

G: Oh, but look how it's sewn!

we opened the plastic package and the contents looked like this!

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  • Ha ha! :-)
  • hahaha i'm sure u'll remember this occasion.
  • Well, I'm not American but I still find the humor in it. The makers of the flag meant no malice for sure, but it's still funny how they can get a simple thing wrong -- and how we took the simple flag for granted that we had to think twice before we realized it was erroneous! There was not supposed to be any "value" or lack of value in the error. And by the way, the people I were with who also laughed at the erroneous flags were all Swedes.
  • I don't think it's funny. I think it's stupid. May be Americans would enjoy such jokes because it's stupid and lacks value.

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