Monday, January 31, 2011

Trivial Pursuit

I had no idea how many national flags are in red, white and blue until I bought these shoes.  The polka dots and stripes bring up connotations of 'stars and stripes' but for some reason the colours raised my curiosity.  If I was ever to wear these shoes I needed to know.

By my count, there are at least 30 nations with flags in these colours.  For such a popular and well known combination of colours some of the nations adorned by them are less obvious, such as the Faroe Islands, Costa Rica, Samoa and Nepal.  Weird.

Random stream of consciousness taken to peculiar level, yes.  Useful for future games of trivial pursuit or for dazzling people at parties with your knowledge of useless information, yes yes.

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