fdt
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Pop quiz / trivia
Why are burros / donkeys painted with stripes in Tijuana's Avenida Revolucion?
[Edited on 3-23-2007 by fdt]
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FTD-----------those are NOT burros/donkeys 
-----those are Zebras, as everybody who staggers about in TJ knows. 
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"Tijuana's mascot is a burro painted with black and white stripes. His name is Zonkey."
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Thanks Dano!!!
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Faded Zebra in TJ
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My Grandparents and their friends in TJ, not sure of the date, guessing late 40s- early 50s.
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Clue 1.- It has something to do with the picture beeing black & white.
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Clue 2.- you can almost see why on the 2 previous pictures if you look at the rear end of the burro.
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No one?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fdt
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Because in those days the black and white pictures did'nt catch the true color of the mexican
burros so they hire some taggers  to spray paint the burros with black stripes so it could show better in the picturesafther that
mexican zebras where born..
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Si
you've got the idea, since the pictures are b&W and the burros are gray, they would not show up very well on the fotographs, so they started
painting them white and then added the stripes.
And as it sais on the back of those, "If you don't like the picture, blame the donkey" 
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Gracias Ferna...
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