Fred's Flag Day
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Fred ran a flag making business. Things were looking bleak when, out of the blue, someone called from the Paraguayan Embassy. They needed an urgent consignment of 1000 Paraguayan flags by the following week.
Fred got to work straight away. He got a picture of the current Paraguayan flag, got hold of the required cloth and he and his staff worked without stopping until the flags were dispatched. The business was saved, or so he thought.
Unfortunately, the Embassy refused to pay and returned them all. Fred has now lost his business, but why?
HintHe should have worked from a flag instead of a picture.
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Paraguay's flag has two different sides. Fred's picture only gave one side and that design was used front and back. Had he used a real flag for reference he could have turned it over and seen the difference.
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Winner4600 
Jun 25, 2006
| WOW! I never knew that! Good job!  |
schoo 
Jun 25, 2006
| Okay teaser, but I learned something new!! Keep submitting looking forward to more |
peanut-tiara 
Jun 26, 2006
| Very interesting. I didn't know that. |
kwelchans 
Jun 26, 2006
| I did a little research before checking the answer, so I actually got this one. |
bhssoccer23
Jun 26, 2006
| That's really cool! I love these trivia teasers b/c they always teach me something new! |
Bttrflygrl
Jun 30, 2006
| WOW. that was really unexpected Good one! |
zigthepig
Jul 08, 2006
| I knew that Paraguay had two different sides so I got it right.  Love it though, in my faves. |
FreddyPharkas
Jul 09, 2006
| Thanks everyone, glad people liked it. |
barrom
Jul 09, 2006
| You have a knack for creating fun teasers! Great effort! |
kcheer2493
Jul 09, 2006
| After I read the teaser, I googled Paraguays flags, found it had two sides, and actually got the teaser [learned a bit too!] |
speedqueenkmw
Jul 13, 2006
| oh, that's interesting! Thanks for a little more info to tuck away somewhere in my brain |
(user deleted)
Jan 24, 2008
| I knew the answer as soon as i saw Paraguay, but then again was a bit of a nerd for flags...
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martinb216 
Jan 24, 2008
| nice one- |
Thel
Jan 24, 2008
| Thank you for a fun and instructive teaser! |
bradon182001
Jan 24, 2008
| Good bit of trivia. Next time I'm in a conversation about Paraguay, I'll have something to offer. Seriously, good piece of information, something that I never knew before. I like adding new facts to my knowledge bank.Thanks for posting.  |
builder
Jan 24, 2008
| got me! and I've been to Paraguay. Spent most of the time in the bush so never studied the flag |
cheesepie
Jan 24, 2008
| I've never been to paraguay or studied it but I got it.  Yay |
doehead 
Jan 24, 2008
| Had no idea,never saw their flag,guessed and was right.Pure luck.  |
kwelchans
Jan 24, 2008
| The state flag of Oregon also has 2 different sides. It's the only state in the US that does. |
phyllisa
Jan 24, 2008
| What an interesting teaser, thanks |
tommysmo
Jan 24, 2008
| i love it when i learn something new!!!! |
mondayschild59
Jan 24, 2008
| You learn something new everyday. I guess this is my new thing for today. I loved the teaser. Thanks for posting.
Monday~ |
Spammy
Jan 24, 2008
| I had a different, but correct answer...the picture he took had his thumb in front of the lens and therefore the flag had a picture of a thumb on it. |
UlsterCharlotte
Jan 24, 2008
| Nice. |
UptheHill
Jan 24, 2008
| Very, very nice!! |
bookwrmKP
Jan 24, 2008
| It was kinda obvious, i mean what else could it be? whatever. I liked the teaser a lot, really. Make more! |
FatHead
Jan 24, 2008
| Wow, you learn something new every day! (But I was expecting he'd left out details or something.) |
2ndhandrose
Jan 24, 2008
| This was good! I was guessing the colours weren't true.
You made me remember that not all flags are the same both sides
THANX Make more Teasers Pls.
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fifiid
Jan 24, 2008
| i guessed he ran out of blue and the flag had blue on it |
974999gec
Jan 24, 2008
| nice teaser, I learned something new today! |
canfan95
Jan 24, 2008
| Wow, I never knew that!!!! I'm not too familiar w/ Paraguay, but that's interesting!!! kind of hard though, I missed it... |
composer
Jan 24, 2008
| FreddyPharkas?
The Horn player? |
FreddyPharkas
Jan 25, 2008
| No, the pharmacist.
Thanks for the feedback everyone!! Glad you enjoyed it. |
oddrey
Jan 26, 2008
| thats really interesting. |
siskiu
Jan 29, 2008
| it was ok |
dogg6pound9
Jan 31, 2008
| a most informative teaser... i am now on my way to see what the differences are... great job |
dsjt
Jan 24, 2011
| But I work with Fred and he showed me the photo. The photo showed both sides of the flag. |
HABS2933
Jan 24, 2011
| Good one, fooled me. I was expecting something along the line of it was made of a different material than most flags. |
Salutatorian
Jan 24, 2011
| Fun teaser, and I am glad I learned something, but... I feel like people should have a chance to answer it correctly. Unless you know about Paraguay, you probably had little to know chance. It's cool because it makes you think outside the box, but I don't like investing too much time trying to solve a puzzle/riddle that is only answerable with the help of Google. |
auntiesis
Jan 24, 2011
| I thought maybe he made them up-side-down.  |
juju1946
Jan 24, 2011
| Good trivia question. I thought maybe the flag had to be made in Paraguay. |
selpy123
Jan 24, 2011
| Fred ran a flag making business. Things were looking bleak when, out of the blue, someone called from the Paraguayan Embassy. They needed an urgent consignment of 1000 Paraguayan flags by the following week.
Fred got to work straight away. He got a picture of the current Paraguayan flag, got hold of the required cloth and he and his staff worked without stopping until the flags were dispatched. The business was saved, or so he thought.
Unfortunately, the Embassy refused to pay and returned them all. Fred has now lost his business, but why?
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Paraguay's flag has two different sides. Fred's picture only gave one side and that design was used front and back. Had he used a real flag for reference he could have turned it over and seen the difference.
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Jan 24, 2011
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Fred ran a flag making business. Things were looking bleak when, out of the blue, someone called from the Paraguayan Embassy. They needed an urgent consignment of 1000 Paraguayan flags by the following week.
Fred got to work straight away. He got a picture of the current Paraguayan flag, got hold of the required cloth and he and his staff worked without stopping until the flags were dispatched. The business was saved, or so he thought.
Unfortunately, the Embassy refused to pay and returned them all. Fred has now lost his business, but why?
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Winner4600
Jun 25, 2006
This is offensive
WOW! I never knew that! Good job!
schoo
Jun 25, 2006
This is offensive
Okay teaser, but I learned something new!! Keep submitting looking forward to more
peanut-tiara
Jun 26, 2006
This is offensive
Very interesting. I didn't know that.
kwelchans
Jun 26, 2006
This is offensive
I did a little research before checking the answer, so I actually got this one.
bhssoccer23
Jun 26, 2006
This is offensive
That's really cool! I love these trivia teasers b/c they always teach me something new!
Bttrflygrl
Jun 30, 2006
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WOW. that was really unexpected Good one!
zigthepig
Jul 08, 2006
This is offensive
I knew that Paraguay had two different sides so I got it right. Love it though, in my faves.
FreddyPharkas
Jul 09, 2006
This is offensive
Thanks everyone, glad people liked it.
barrom
Jul 09, 2006
This is offensive
You have a knack for creating fun teasers! Great effort!
kcheer2493
Jul 09, 2006
This is offensive
After I read the teaser, I googled Parag |
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