Yet Another Amusing Link Post

[major_clanger]

... and today's featured site is The world's flags given letter grades. I particularly like the little icons accompanying the alphabetic and best-to-worst lists: 'bad colours', 'too many stars' and most damning of all, 'corporate logo'. And it's hard to disagree with the author's assessment of the flag of the Central African Republic:



'Do not attempt to disprove the four-colour theorem on your flag'.

Comments

[nwhyte]

h, I discovered this a while back and thought it was great. Since then the Georgian flag has changed; wonder what he makes of the new one?

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Oh that was fun!

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I, too, learned of this site some years ago, and greatly appreciate it.

Someone should grade the new U.S. quarter designs, which celebrate various states on the reverse.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

There should be another rule of "Do not have anything so small that it cannot be clearly guessed at on a computer screen." Some of those shields do not reproduce at all well at small sizes.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

This critic would not rate most American state flags (http://www.50states.com/flag/) at all highly; too damned many are simply blue flags with badly-designed state seals on them. Honorable exceptions include Arizona (http://www.50states.com/flag/image/nunst004.gif), New Mexico (http://www.50states.com/flag/image/nunst052.gif) and Tennessee (http://www.50states.com/flag/image/nunst069.gif) (the latter was mistaken for the flag of some obscure Soviet republic, when I bore it in the 1976 Counter-Bicentennial Parade in Philadelphia). I also like Maryland's (http://www.50states.com/flag/image/nunst032.gif); but then, I'm a sucker for good heraldry*.

*Quarterly: 1st and 4th argent and gules, a cross bottony counter-changed; 2d and 3d, paly of six or and sable, a bend counter-changed