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urine day: the eagle with broom, can, sombrero, and half-eaten flag

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the complex O.N.A.N. heraldic ensign—a snarling full-front eagle with a broom and can of disinfectant in one claw and a Maple Leaf in the other and wearing a sombrero and appearing to have about half-eaten a swatch of star-studded cloth—rather ironically silk-screened onto the driver’s-side door

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The fullest rendering of the O.N.A.N. crest, pickup 14: "a snarling full-front eagle with a broom and can of disinfectant in one claw and a Maple Leaf in the other and wearing a sombrero and appearing to have about half-eaten a swatch of star-studded cloth." Every element of experialism is in the heraldry — the American eagle armed with the janitorial tools of the "Tighter, Tidier Nation," Mexico's sombrero and Canada's Maple Leaf in its grip, the U.S.'s own star-spangled flag half-devoured. The predator has eaten its own stars and holds its neighbors as talon-props; that E.T.A. silk-screens it "rather ironically" onto a urine-vending tow truck is the absolution-via-irony the founding runs on. (The rest of 048 — the O.N.A.N.T.A. urine-testing apparatus — is the-body-tennis'; the ensign ONLY is landed here per pickup 14.)

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