From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >Paul Dormer  wrote:   
   >>In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>,   
   >>jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing   
   >>> an opinion.  I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special   
   >>> stamps *had* a name.   
   >>   
   >>Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them.  There are   
   >>commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones.  King Charles   
   >>started appearing on stamps last year.   
   >   
   >The US ones just have a flag on them, but thanks to the Vietnam war   
   >putting a flag on something is now expressing a political opinion.  Does   
   >anyone still put them on upside-down as a protest against the bombing   
   >of Cambodia?   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   One rather suspects that some people put them on upside down, but   
   not for that particular protest.  One might well wonder if the   
   wives of Alito and Thomas do so...   
      
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