A hand-lettered blue placard announced the name of the town and proclaimed it home of Duncan Pharmaceuticals.

At the entrance, a smart blue and white placard announces its name: 'Cotton's Landing - A New World'.

Most of the rest of it is words, bits of information printed on light blue placards that viewers are free to take in or bypass.

His organization's blue and white placards proclaim that homosexuality is "Satan's plot for our children."

(Usually in Spain, a lodging house has a little blue placard with an "H" for "hostal.")

Hostals display a rectangular blue placard near the front door showing the star rating.

The Kennedy backers carried blue placards, the Romney partisans red-and-blue ones.

Perot supporters found red, white and blue placards waiting on their chairs, along with tiny American flags.

The Democratic National Committee has already produced thousands of red, white and blue placards that delegates will wave during the speech, which read: "Undecided for Kerry."

Troi gazed at the various delicacies, allowing Larkin the privilege of explaining each dish to her despite the small blue placards next to each setting.