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    Thursday, December 09, 2004  
    A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME
    Sometime last summer, a billboard depicting President Lahoud, against the background of a Lebanese flag, with an inscription in Arabic reading “the man of (the) resolution” (literally) appeared atop the Dog River tunnel.
    Some months later, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1559 – principally in opposition to the extension of President Lahoud’s mandate.
    The portentous billboards’ still there (unchanged), it just reads somewhat differently now.
    Regarding flags and their protocol, I recently read some interesting information on commercial use of the Australian flag (on an Australian government website).
    It’s allowed! (Which must be a great relief to the commercially jingoistic Australian business community); provided it’s used in a dignified manner, reproduced completely and accurately, not defaced by overprinting, not covered by other objects and provided that all symbolic parts of the flag are identifiable.
    Which reminded me of posters I saw here years ago of an image of a martyred leader’s head “in” (so to speak) the cedar in the middle of the Lebanese flag.
    From heads on billboards to billboards that stick in my head, in 1992 there were billboards on Lebanese highways advertising a brand of four-wheel-drive as “the most expensive four-wheel-drive on the market”.
    Advertising something as expensive (let alone the most expensive) might not make immediate business sense but I suppose when you look at their demographic and the mentality of that type of person it makes perfect sense.
    I’m surprised that One Thousand Dollar Shops haven’t sprung up to cater for the boulevardiers.
    How about an “Everything’s a Thousand Dollars!” shop in upmarket Kaslik?
    4:45 pm

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