There have been many threads, usually in the pit, re the significance of the so-called Confederate Flag, and those who display it. I don’t want this to deteriorate into another pitting nor do I want to know what significance one places on the flag or the people displaying it, so I have put this thread in this forum.
I would really like to know three things:
1.0 When was the last time you saw one displayed?
2.0 Where was it displayed? (Car, flag pole, window, etc., etc.)
3.0 Geographical location where subject flag was displayed.
In the Ohio Village, Columbus, Ohio – as part of a Civil War re-enactment.
(It wasn’t very faithful to history, because both the Confederate flag and the Union flag were flying next to a military tent, and people were walking around peacefully, wearing the uniforms of both armies.)
There are still some of these old bumper stickers around - mostly cracked and faded. You don’t see many new-looking ones.
There’s also some weirdo who used to fly a confederate flag in his back yard, which backs up to I-20 (somewhere in the vicinity of Pearl). I don’t think it’s up anymore, though.
1.0 When was the last time you saw one displayed?
Wednesday
2.0 Where was it displayed? (Car, flag pole, window, etc., etc.)
A picture on the back of a bottle of Maurice’s BBQ Sauce
**3.0 Geographical location where subject flag was displayed. **
Me and the jar were in Ohio, but it was imported from South Carolina. I served the sauce at a BBQ I threw on Sunday, and was eating leftovers until Wednesday. The bottle is embarrassing but the sauce is SO GOOD…
1.0 within the last hour
2.0 cars and trucks (window decals, bumper stickers, antenna flags, pickup rear window shades; jeez, they’re all OVER the place)
3.0 Jefferson County MO
On the back window of an ancient dark-red Simca 1000 parked on Roger de Flor,
that’s in Barcelona.
I know that car, I remember seeing it around on that same street when I was a student there 20 years ago. There is (was back then?) a comic strip featuring rockers where that car would sometimes be pictured as the car of one of the characters, too. The car is called “great balls of fire” in the comics.
“Rocker”: “Elvis the King,” duckbill and sideburn kind of guys.