Michael Donaghy

[hdw]

Here's a nice Irish-American boy (sadly, late) for Liam.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010...aggie-ofarrell

Harry

[lionel]

Almost as boring as Keith Richards though.

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[Liam]

Here's a nice Irish-American boy (sadly, late) for Liam.

Thanks, Harry. Actually, the dude was kinda hot when he was young:

Why is he under a Liberian flag though?

[hdw]

Why is he under a Liberian flag though?

Because, as I've complained before, those miniscule flags we are offered to stud our posts with look like nothing under the sun, so my failing eyes pick out whatever looks like the nearest approximation, in this case, to the Stars and Stripes. Although Donaghy probably wouldn't have objected to the flag of the only country with 'Free' in its name.

Harry

[Bjorn]

They are in alphabetical order, though. And if you hover your mouse over the flag for a second, it says which country it is. Fixed it for you.

[hdw]

I have to do an awful lot of hovering with my mouse to get a name, but apart from that, it's the weirdest kind of alphabetical I've ever seen, going not just down the way but across too, in seemingly random fashion.

To take only the first two columns, Column 1 goes (downwards) from Anguilla to Azerbaijan to Belize to Brazil ... but go across from Anguilla to Column 2 and you get Afghanistan, then downwards from Antigua and Barbuda to Bahamas to Benin (etc.).

I don't know how other people's minds work, but to me, if I find that Column 1 begins with Anguilla, I'm going to assume that this is followed by all the other A names, then B, etc., working from left to right through the columns (although I would be wondering where the hell Afghanistan had got to). What do others think?

Harry

[Mirabell]

here it's, from left to right, Anguilla, Antigua, Argentina
Afghanistan is in the line above which starts with the EU, then Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria etc.