mystery solved
Watching the olympics this past week has been fun, but it has left me with a few questions. The most mind boggling of which is why does Australia wear green and gold when their flag is red white and blue? It was bothering me so much I couldn’t take it anymore and had to look it up. From my google research I discovered that green and gold are in fact their national colors which were chosen based on their national flower, the wattle. Don’t know if this was bugging anyone else or if was just me.
Side note, Holland is another example of the above. They compete in orange when there is no orange in their flag, but for some reason this never bothered me. Perhaps because it is only one color not two, or perhaps because I can’t think of another prominent country that competes in orange (I see Australia and I think it is Brazil). The reason for their color choice? It refers to the royal family.
I learned things today!
photo above courtesy of http://www.sydneynaturally.com.au/
Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I could’ve helped you out on the Holland orange thing, but good to know about the Aussie’s. Weird how things like that bother you enough to look them up.
sense the sarcasm. you’re a wattle.
Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Figured you could have, but I didn’t have to look it up. Just stumbled across it when searching about Australia. If it makes you feel better, I did think about you and “your” orange Holland shirt as I was typing out the post.