[CrackMonkey] Simplistic Yahoo Daily News polls

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Monkey Master wrote:

> > Idiot. That's where ALL flags come from.
> 
> Not all flags, no.  Certainly, your remark about Wales was
> pretty on the mark.  Throughout the british isles, that was the point.

The concept of a flag was used to identify people in battle. Thus, all
flags come from war because the concept does.

This wasn't just from the British Isles -- it was separately used in
Japan, China, and throughout Europe.

"Heraldry hit Europe during a thirty-year period in the mid-12th century.
How the rules became so rapidly codified and so widely accepted still has
historians baffled."

But memes are a hoax, so we won't go there.

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