I'm not really happy with how I handle banner either, but FWIW:

I just look at the "recline" primitive as the banner itself, flapping over whatever else is there.  And I remember the other part as direction, not compass.  So it's a banner saying "This way!".

Hoping someone else has a better suggestion than this. 

Well he says to picture banner as a standard, so maybe it might help to picture a standard bearer like this one:
http://www.pf-militarygallery.com/image … X-Regt.jpg
They might have ones you might like more in a google image search.

Last edited by cracky (2007 December 17, 7:27 pm)

All suggestions have been read.

Thanks guys, I'll try one at a time until something sticks.

I put on a crotchety old guy's view of the world for this one ... more specifically, a staunchly conservative one with an undying hatred of "lazy, degenerate hippies."

The 1960's in the United States was an era of vast cultural upheaval ... the "hippy" movement in the younger generation were seen as lazy, and unnecessarily inflammatory by the older.  They refused to become slaves to the corporate machine of capitalist America (or, as their parents would say, "Why don't you get a job!?"), and were always there to rally for the next political cause (civil rights).

So, knowing that, the two sides of the primitive become easy to remember as the way in which two different generations perceived the movement --


The hippies themselves thought that they were perpetually holding a metaphorical compass, indicating the correct "direction" that they should take the world in (the political activism) ... a BANNER that they can rally under, and lay down before.

The crotchety old suits, on the other hand, saw them as lazy, and all too eager to "recline" on the job, ready to kill America through laziness.  The BANNER they rallied under was the cause to draft the lazy recliners, and make upstanding citizens out of 'em.



That's my trick -- it works for me, but I'm an arch-liberal political junkie.  ^_^

I hope it helps.

Last edited by dukelexon (2007 December 30, 4:20 am)

Since it's an enclosure, I think of it as a big banner held up over whatever it represents.

It's quite a frequent primitive so I just learned it without a mnemonic though.