Death By Logic: These Colors Don't Run

Welcome to the first installment of our new series "Death by Logic." Let's get started.

I have heard this patriotic saying many a time and I was thinking about it further today. “These colors don't run.” This is of course referring to the colors on the American flag.

The saying has two meanings, one being the literal meaning that the colors on the fabric will not run when exposed to liquid. There is also the symbolic meaning. The flag and its colors being a symbol of the nation and how our nation does not back down and run....wait doesn't that sound like cut and run? I guess we really aren’t supposed to do that!

Anyway back to the point. Red, white, and blue are the colors that do not run...according to my research though, another country has the same exact colors but as it so happens they are known for something entirely different. Yes, I am talking about France. The nation of quitters. National motto: “we surrender”. They fly the white flag more than they fly their own.

This development leaves us in a logical conundrum. If France is known for surrendering, and the United States is not then do the colors really not run? The only way to solve this problem is to change the language. How about, "these colors when arranged in the specific design as represented on the flag of the United States of America, all other instances and occurrences being void, do not run." That covers it I think.



Water proof fabric doesn't exist in France?