freemanofthesea wrote:
Hi. Love the logo for the stationary although am a little less than enthused about wrapping it around a peanut! This is probably old news -- I am new here -- but the the rattlesnake logo is the Gadsen Flag. It originated in South Carolina at the start of the American Revolution and flew both at the battle of Bunker Hill and from a group of small brigs and schooners that made up "Washington's Cruizers." These boats, manned primarily by fishermen from Nantucket, Gloucester and New Bedford, Mass., as well as Newport, R.I. and Stonington, Conn., helped supply Washington's army around Boston during the early days of the war. The Gadsen flag also flew from the staffs of a small flotilla that attacked Nassau, Bahamas and featured John Paul Jones as commander of one of the ships. This flag later morphed into the Continental Navy jack -- a flag featuring 13 red and white stripes (horizontal, not ASA-like vertical) with an elongated rattlesnake and the motto "Don't tread on me" along the bottom white stripe.
I know the Gadsen flag came up in at least one episode from the first season, leading me to believe this a precursor to a second American Revolution, this time against the "tyranny" of J&R which is most certainly pulling all the strings of the Cheyenne government and that is responsible for the nuclear attacks.
The idea of wrapping it around a peanut was to make it our own, as was the peanut. There was a historical homage to the Battling Bastards of Bastogne.
"When General Anthony McAuliffe, acting commander of the 101st Airborne, was told of this German invitation to surrender, he responded "Nuts!" After turning to other pressing issues, his staff reminded him that they should reply to the German demand; one officer recommended that the initial reply would be "tough to beat". Thus McAuliffe wrote on the paper delivered to the Germans: “NUTS!” That reply had to be explained, both to the Germans and to non-American Allies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge In the Jericho mythology, Stanely gets this story that Grandpa Green would tell, wrong, and says "peanuts". Jake says Nuts in salute to his Grandfather and father, but peanuts are what made it uniquely "Jericho" - not to mention peanuts are cheaper then nuts - and $X dollars will buy you a bigger and more impressive pile of peanuts, than nuts.
Thus, my suggestion was to tie this flag into the uniqueness of the Jericho movement - otherwise it's just use of one of many such historical flags of that time. That way, just looking at it, you know it's a save Jericho thing.
-RourkeRF
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