From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   Still waiting for an answer.   
      
   On 1/14/26 10:31, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > 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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   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
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   nationalism is akin to believing that one’s child can do no wrong.   
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