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It's Thursday June 26th 2014. From Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Peska. USA, USA, the US

soccer team, what a glorious spectacular loss by not that much. The US is through to the

knockout round. The US advances because we lost, but in the past we had won and we also

once tied, so we lost by not that much. We lost by not that much. So weird feeling, isn't

it? Anyway, same thing happened to Portugal. No one saying they lost by not that much of

Portugal. They're saying they're out of the tournament and we're still in it. USA, USA.

So more about team USA in the field, I assure you. But let me tell you the benefit of actually

coming in second place in our group. If the US had won the group, Germany would have

come in second and that would have set up a very vexological conundrum because Germany

would have played Belgium. That cannot stand. Why? Well, of course the flags, I did say

vexological, the flags of Belgium and Germany, they're both red, black and gold. Sure, Belgium's

vertical stripes, Germany's horizontal stripes, different order. So the question is, you know,

these countries are very close to each other. You have a number of colors to choose from. Why

do you go with the same three horizontal tri-colors? Who gets to keep the red, black, and gold?

They could settle it on the pitch, but I say let's settle it in the history books. So the

red, black, and gold tri-color of Germany first appeared in the early 19th century, prominently

featured in the 1848 revolutions in Germany. So that's old, 1848 actually in German. It's

barely out of less and I was going to say it's barely drinking age, but we know what drinking

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