As a Canadian living in America one of the things I have grown to love about this country is how much you love your flag. You love it a lot. Like a lot a lot. You love your flag so much, you want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.
What I love about how it is seems to be used as the default placeholder for advertising and product packaging. We took bstewart to ASSSSCAT last week and the admission ticket was one of those beer or carnival style tickets you buy in a giant roll at Staples. Right in the middle is a giant American flag waving in the wind. Why is that exactly? I think we can assume this is not an admission ticket to America itself because trust me it’s just not that easy. Might it be a reminder that the event is taking place in America? No, the Acme Ticket Co. designer had a blank space and the go-to thing to put in there is Old Glory.
I see it all the time. The local Ace hardware had boxes of window blinds in the store and on the entire spine behind the name of the product is the stars and stripes. I was at the barber today and the off-brand barbicide jar had an American flag on it.
I’m not knocking it, I just find it interesting. In Canada the flag in generally seen on flagpoles on government buildings, at customs, and of course in the logos of the Canadian divisions of American companies.
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Too funny. I kept mine, too, flummoxed by the plural in the ADMIT ONE PRODUCTS title. I am one less than you, G.
I assumed that was the name of the company.
Well, I did, too, but still… My mind went to “admit one indiscretions” and so on.
Here’s the product page. Of course the ticket above is available in red, white or blue! I love how everything on that page is pretty standard stuff — admit one, beer, wine, adult, child, $1, etc — except for the very niche Jazz Festival speciality ticket. What’s up with that?
I think it’s a law in the United States to use a saxophone for the letter “J”, isn’t it? Dude, I’m all over the sparkle wristbands.
A small bit of irony. See your previous entry for promiscuous of the Canadian flag.
That should be “promiscuous USE of the Canadian flag.”
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