From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   > Cocos-Keeling is not a nation.   
      
   Thanks.  That would explain why I didn't find it.  So I guess it's   
   just Jamaica whose national flag contains no red, no white, and   
   no blue.   
      
   I agree that far too many nations use the same set of colors.   
   Ideally, no two would use the same set.   
      
   How many distinct colors are there?  Being male, I will say just ten.   
   I'll use the ones from the resistor color code, whose mnemonic is   
   "Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls."  (Black,   
   brown, red (or maroon or crimson), orange, yellow (or gold), green,   
   blue, violet (or purple), gray, and white.)  As such, there are 1024   
   possible distinct subsets of colors.  1023 if you exclude the empty   
   set.  That's far more than enough for every nation, with room for   
   future expansion.   
      
   Then there would be juse one red, white, and blue flag.  And just one   
   blue and yellow flag -- Ukraine can fight Sweden over who gets to   
   keep it.   
      
   Here's a new national trivia question:  What do these nations all have   
   in common?  Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Lichteinstein, South   
   Africa, Tanzania, Turkiye, the United Kingdom, and Zambia?  (Gary,   
   please don't answer, as we discussed this at Philcon.)   
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