From a Soviet-era Russian edition of The Hobbit:

For some reason it makes me think he should be a character in Spongebob.

(via Boing Boing)

As suggested by Senor Wignall:

Thinking about it a far more sensible way to do it would be to just take the cool parts of the cool flags and construct an uber-flag .

My 5 minute lunchtime effort is: Eagle eating Snake + Two Headed Eagle + Dragon + Maasai Spears & Shield + Two Snowlions + Man behing beheaded:

I think if the rules could be bent to allow non-national flags there could be some awesome mashups as provincial flags and royal standards get all the cool stuff. That said if we were to allow them there’s only one flag we’d need:

It’s a bear holding a freakin waraxe. Thank you Yaroslavl Oblast.

Getting quite a lot of random Russian spam comments on my blog. Babel Fish kindly informs me that todays reads:

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Other gems include:

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And with regards to this sage piece of advice:

It is possible to [podiskutirovat] in regard to this…

I’ll just have to take your word for it.