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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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11-11-2009, 06:00 AM
takedown
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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but this is quite remarkable.
I was totally blown away 24 years ago about the "Birthplace: Wichita Kansas" in 1985 when Flint came out, and a few years later when Lightfoot was released.
But get this, This was 1985, a time before the internet... Flint and Lightfoot are words with indian origins, the name of Wichita is named after the Wichitas indian tribe. Also, Wichita has behind the Mid-America All Indian Center, a 50 foot rusted-steel statue of an Indian chief called, 'the Keeper of the Plains' over the meeting of the Little and Big Arkansas River. And I went to a high school where I believed Flint went to high school, The North High Redskins. The school is right beside a river, The bridge there is adorned with indian and buffalo faces.
So is Flint, Dashiell Faireborn a pun on the city's FAIR-skinnEd BORN inhabitants with indian origins? It almost looks to me that The 25th filecard artwork that Flint appears to have a pronounced indian jawline. Pretty awesome if he did all this on purpose, for the 2nd in command of the JOE team.
Anyway, I think the Rhodes Scholar thing is also an inside joke too. My Dad went to school in Oxford too. Oxford Kansas that is.
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