Out-of-spec flags are a classic tactic of imagineering.
There is a “flag code” which is basically an honor code (no real punishments for violating it) which holds that you are supposed to put a flag up in the morning and take it down at night unless you illuminate it. From time to time a visitor to Disney’s Main Street USA will note there are an awful lot of flags all over the place and there is no way they could be giving them the proper respect.
At this point a cast member steps in and explains that there is only one American flag in all of Main Street USA and all the rest of the flags are off-spec, like they have the wrong number of stripes or the wrong number of stars. They have a really nice ceremony at the end of the day when they take the one flag down and that person who cares about the flag code might get to take it down himself.
(Reminds me of that dark time in the pandemic when identitarians were interested in strange flags such as the blue stripe flag and pride flag variations… Ouch!)
There is a “flag code” which is basically an honor code (no real punishments for violating it) which holds that you are supposed to put a flag up in the morning and take it down at night unless you illuminate it. From time to time a visitor to Disney’s Main Street USA will note there are an awful lot of flags all over the place and there is no way they could be giving them the proper respect.
At this point a cast member steps in and explains that there is only one American flag in all of Main Street USA and all the rest of the flags are off-spec, like they have the wrong number of stripes or the wrong number of stars. They have a really nice ceremony at the end of the day when they take the one flag down and that person who cares about the flag code might get to take it down himself.
(Reminds me of that dark time in the pandemic when identitarians were interested in strange flags such as the blue stripe flag and pride flag variations… Ouch!)