Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Classic literature instructs us:
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Said the Mock Turtle with a sigh, ‘I only took the regular course.’
‘What was that?’ inquired Alice.
‘Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,’ the Mock Turtle replied; ‘and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.’
‘I never heard of “Uglification,”‘ Alice ventured to say. ‘What is it?’
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. ‘What! Never heard of uglifying!’ it exclaimed. ‘You know what to beautify is, I suppose?’
‘Yes,’ said Alice doubtfully: ‘it means—to—make—anything—prettier.’
‘Well, then,’ the Gryphon went on, ‘if you don’t know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.’
Minnesota Democrats know what it means and they are hard at it
I don’t like it.
Joe Doakes, no longer in Como Park
The problem with the flag – and to a lesser extent the license plate – is that they were designed by graphic designers, judged by people whose background was graphic design (filtered through politics), by criteria that make sense only in graphic design terms.
And while graphic design is one of many tools used to get ideas across to people, when applied for its own sake it’s an intensely myopic discipline. It certainly doesn’t help that so much of my own field has been dragged down by visual designers masquerading as problem-solvers.
Take all that and filter it through politics, and you get the same effect as when you filter science through politics; bad design and/or politics.
The Minnesota DFL destroys everything it touches.
The cruelest thing one can say about bad design is:
Rumor has it that the new Minnesota flag won both a Nobel and a Pulitzer.
Is it just me or does the new Minnesota flag appear to be the north end of a southbound cat?
The design for the new flag was purposely done so folks can’t tell when you fly the ugly darn thing upside down.
We should do an unofficial Minnesota flag featuring Goldie, TC Bear, and Helga Braids dude around a table drinking Hamm’s and playing poker, all on a black (velvet) background.
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As I visit my customers around the south and southeast metro, almost all of them (more than 70) fly the Stars and Stripes outside their facilities. Since the flag change, they are now flying our original flag, too. As a couple of the owners have told me, this is their big middle finger to Kommisar Walz.
FWIW, I’ve seen the black license plates for other states, including Iowa, so it’s part of a larger trend; why it is, who knows? I’ve worked with a lot of graphic designers in my career and more than a few of them see themselves as a sort of Adobe priesthood.
Not a fan of the flag by any means. It’s not even useful as a maritime flag.
The plates are optional, and have the virtue of simplicity at least. There are times I’ve wondered if the stock plate had too much on it.
Mitch, you should ask Jack to ask Ben what Ben thinks of the flag. Ben considers himself as an amateur vexilologist.