Wednesday, October 05, 2011

some kind of luck?

Submitter Emily explains that this picture is of South Dakota's Corn Palace in 1907. My favorite thing about these quotation marks is they make it seem as though "Indian good luck" is a different thing from just "good luck" in India.

4 comments:

  1. Or that it's "Indian Good Luck" is really Nazi good luck.

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  2. In this case, it's Native American good luck.

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  3. It's interesting how this symbol was used for hundreds (thousands?) of years (still is, in much of Asia) as a positive symbol before being adopted by that particular political movement.

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  4. Those quotation marks are, clearly, indicating that it's all one big cover-up for a Nazi meeting hall ;-)

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