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>http://pakistaniat.com/2007/05/11/pakistan-czech-republic-flag-diplomacy-check-checkered/>>
>>Good one! (had to blog about it).
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>I've never heard the racing flag called a check flag before. It's a "checkered" flag. However, Pakistan has literally checkered their international relations record. ;)
Neither did I, but a search in images.google.com, for "check flag", indicates how this may have happened.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
