On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 04:34, tim hall wrote: > Last Tuesday 20 July 2004 08:24, Russell Hanaghan was like: > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 21:12, Jan Depner wrote: > > > Is that a European fish or an African fish???? > > > > > > Jan > > > > Oh man! You ask ALL the tough questions! ;) It was kind of a follow on > > from the Elephant=Loud & Fish=quiet thingy by Arnold. > > > > I was just having a jab at the kazillion or so posts on the wacky > > widgetness (slobs vs liders) and suddenly I created a > > ....er...um...."Fish"?? Ain't we creative!? > > > > R~ > > > > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 22:47, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > > > > Did every one take a vacation? > > > > > > > > It's so quiet you can hear a fish drop! > > > > > > > > :) > > One of the visual hallmarks of a GNU system - and one of the things that I > find attractive about it is the plethora of cute anthropomorphic animals used > as logos and icons. Each of these creatures has a kind of totemic association > in the context of GNU software ( like bit-beasts ). Therefore we should take > some care when assigning cuddly cartoon creatures to functions. > > [I'll bring this thread round to a semi-serious point in a minute, just keep > reading ;-] > > The elephant is clearly already the emblem of postgresql, the rest are > relatively free agents. We don't have much in the way of friendly fish icons, > unless you count PHP?s porpoise (not a fish), Terrapin has already been used > although not in a GNU context. I think rabbits are still free range. > You forgot the Ogg Vorbis fish. Jan
