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Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: James Farrar
Date: Aug 20, 2008 01:19

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:05 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Mark Brader wrote:
>
>> Tom Anderson writes:
>>
>>> I think that's quite a nice idea. You might want to subdivide further
>>> than by country, though - if, say, 90%% of plaques are about British
>>> people ... then the national flag isn't providing a lot of information
>>> about those ones.
>>
>> Ah, but the trick is to use the *correct* national flag. For Samuel
>> Pepys, the St. George's Cross; for Samuel Johnson, the Union Jack
>> without the red diagonal cross; for Samuel Palmer, the present version.
>
>Ingenious!
>
>And for any Samuels born from about 2020 on, we can just use the EU flag,
>right John? :)

Arguably 1987.
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