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and todays gem is:-

MANILA (Reuters) - A bid to earn the record for the world's biggest flag ended in shreds on Saturday when strong winds tore apart a giant Philippine national flag as it was being unfurled at a mountain town north of Manila, an organiser said.

Thousands of people, many of them residents from Nueva Vizcaya province, about 260 km (162 miles) north of Manila, dropped to their knees in prayer when the blue, red and white flag was unfurled.

"Everybody is crying," Grace Galindez-Gupana told Reuters by mobile phone. "The unfurling of the flag was almost over but a sudden gust of strong winds tore it apart," said Galindez-Gupana, founder of the HalleluYAH PG Towers Ministries International.

The Christian group, supported by a Manila-based producer of herbal food supplements, spent about 1 million pesos ($19,900) on the project to make the two-hectare (five-acre) flag.



The group, which hired 18 people to make the 330 feet by 660 feet (100 metre by 200 metre) flag -- about the size of two football fields -- wanted to break the 10-year-old record held by the United States.

The American "Superflag", at 255 feet by 505 feet and weighing 3,000 lb (1,363 kg), made it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 1996.

($1 = 50.3 pesos)

now thats what i call a waste of money! but hey i bet it looked nice!