A vexing question

[muckefuck]

I was complimented at yesterday's barbecue on the neatness of my bratwurst. The clean design of my pale sausage edged with a line of mustard and a line of relish prompted someone to ask, "Is that the flag of Jamaica?" I knew it wasn't, but when it came to the question of whether some lame country had come so late to the party that a crappy design of green-white-yellow horizontal stripes was the best choice available[*], I was stumped. "Is there a vexillologist in the house?" I asked. But, alas, there was not. Fortunately, I have found a passable substitute in the form of this website. The various search engines leave much to be desired, but the use of one reveals no matches. There are a couple of tricolours with these three colours, but they have the green in the middle--which, I have to admit, more closely follows the rules of heraldry (i.e. metal may not lie upon metal) than that which was on my bun.

[*] Far from the worst choice possible, sadly, as some of the examples here attest.

Comments

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

Heraldry sounds about as silly as feng shui.

*ducks*

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I usually describe feng shui to people as one third common sense (e.g. put your door on the sunny side, not facing the north wind), one third aesthetics (e.g. round doorways is nicer than square ones), and one third superstition (e.g. all the numerological bits). For "heraldry", replace "superstition" with "tradition".