Six Flags Over Texas Spokesman Easily Stumped By Seven-Year-Old

The story has been a staple of Six Flags Over Texas tours for years, even decades: Way back when, when Angus G. Wynne, Jr., first conceived of opening a Texas theme park, he planned to call it �Texas Under Six Flags,� referencing the half-dozen countries that had ruled the state. But because he and other Texans didn�t like the idea of Texas being under anything, it got changed to the now-familiar �Six Flags Over Texas.�

So SFoT spokesman Gregg Murray didn�t expect anything besides a polite chuckle when sharing the story with a holiday-season tour of elementary school kids who had won an essay-writing contest.

But then Pete Marvin, a second grader from LBJ Elementary in Dallas, pointed out the blindingly obvious: �If the six flags are over Texas, then Texas is still under the six flags. That�s what we learned about �over� and �under� in first grade, anyway.�

Murray was initially rendered speechless, and then attempted to recover. �But, you see, it�s not Texas under six flags any more. The flags are over�um�it�s not under. It�s over.� At press time, the spokesman was hunched over at his desk with a small model of Texas and miniature flags, muttering, �Over�under�over�under�dammit!�

Chain spokesperson Maureen Sokolow issued a statement: "It is Six Flags Theme Parks's position that Six Flags Over Texas is not equivalent to Texas Under Six Flags. The former does not imply Texas being under anything; it merely describes flags being over Texas. Also, four inversions are equivalent to seven, and full is empty."

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