The Flag of Ankh Morpork

[David Brown]

I do have the flag of Ankh Morpork as approved by Terry , but its packed and not even here s it's in storage . However I can confirm that it has the coat of arms on a blue ground a lot of city flags are like that.

Now we're getting somewhere, and sorry for missing your post earlier. I take it there's a fair amount of red in it, too, as the only description I can find in Night Watch is that the red of the flag in Tilden's office is "faded to a threadbare orange"?

 

[The Mad Collector]

Ah yes, thinking about it there were two versions done, one on a red background and one on a blue, this is quite a while ago. I bought the blue one which is the Ankh-Morpork Merchant Ships Flag of Convenience. (for hanging in your convenience ). The red one was the main flag of the city sorry for the confusion there, if everything wasn't packed up ready for my move I could have checked before posting.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

That coat of arms looks like it should go on and on with strange black creatures holding smaller and smaller shields

I think those black birds are meant to be eagles They are a bit rude though, sticking out their tongues like that

 

[deldaisy]

The Australian Coat Of Arms:

or as we say................ DINNER!

 

[The Mad Collector]

Hmmm, not tried emu is it any good? I've cooked kangaroo a few times and thats delicious.

 

[deldaisy]

MY adult daughter eats both. I have not tried either.... and its staying that way.

Miind you when I said I was a bit peckish at her house last night she pulled a can of snails out of the cupboard.

 

[Dotsie]

Better than opening a can of worms

 

[Tonyblack]

That second picture looks like a scene from Feet of Clay.

 

[Anonymous]

That second picture looks like a scene from Feet of Clay.

What makes me wonder: If the coat-thingy is at work again, do they now have a bunch of fourecksian animals?

 

[deldaisy]

Better than opening a can of worms

Don't joke....I wouldn't put it past her to have those in the cupboard TOO Dots!

I think we are the only country in the world that eats it coat of arms.

 

[Penfold]

Hmmm, not tried emu is it any good? I've cooked kangaroo a few times and thats delicious.

I haven't tried it either but I would imagine it to be similar to ostrich, which is delicious.

 

[deldaisy]

sooooooooooo... a bit like dophin huh?

 

[The Mad Collector]

No dolphin is more like tuna :twisted:

 

[Anonymous]

Ostrich tastes like rabbit. Tried it last year once. Guess emu tastes like that then too

 

[poohcarrot]

Here's an interesting question. (well I think it's interesting, but I'm easily pleased) 8)

In Japan, there are different counting words for different things. For example tall thin things are ipon nihon sanbon, small round flat things are ichimai nimai sanmai, etc etc.

Anyhoos, animals are ihiki nihiki sanbiki, and birds are ichiwa niwa sanwa.

Yet rabbits are counted the same as birds NOT animals. Why?

 

[pip]

Because Bugs Bunny convinced Elmur Fudd he was a bird during rabbit hunting season

 

[The Mad Collector]

Yet rabbits are counted the same as birds NOT animals. Why?

According to wikipedia

Japanese Buddhist monks were not allowed to eat any meat other than birds, but liked rabbit meat so much they came up with the contrived "explanation" that rabbits are actually birds, and that their ears are unusable wings. The rationale was that while moving, rabbits only touched the ground with two feet at a time. Nowadays, hiki is the usual counter for rabbits.

The full entry is here and boy is it complicated

 

[pip]

Not the only case like this.
Catholics classified the Puufin Bird as a fish to get around the whole Fish on a friday thing

 

[The Mad Collector]

That's reasonable. Roast puffin tastes of fish anyway

 

[Anonymous]

Yet rabbits are counted the same as birds NOT animals. Why?

According to wikipedia

Japanese Buddhist monks were not allowed to eat any meat other than birds, but liked rabbit meat so much they came up with the contrived "explanation" that rabbits are actually birds, and that their ears are unusable wings. The rationale was that while moving, rabbits only touched the ground with two feet at a time. Nowadays, hiki is the usual counter for rabbits.

The full entry is here and boy is it complicated

Why do I read such things always when I am re-reading either Hogfather or Last Continent and am at a point where them wizards are given odd explanations for virtually everything....