[Ansteorra] Voluntary tagging

[Tim McDaniel]

Samantha Smith <sasmith0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> James Crouchet <james at crouchet.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, here is a suggestion for the heralds among us:
>>
>> http://savinius.org/pics/newcomer1.png
>>
>> Yes, it is a joke, not a serious suggestion.

Works for me: I snorted with a laugh.

> There's probably a horrible pun in there somewhere that escapes
> me. I am not among the elite herald dorks -- er, aficionados

[glare]

> -- out there. How would that be blazoned, then?

Sable, a key reversed Or, in chief a label argent.

A label, the thing on top that looks like an overpass, roughly (in a
fixed-width font)

   ===========
  /_\  /_\  /_\

was often used as the mark of the eldest son.  And a key is the charge
the badge of the hospitaler (though in that case, it's a green
background with the key vertical and the wards at the bottom pointing
to the viewer's right).  So "I'm not the hospitaler, but I'm a close
relative".


To descend into seriousness, sometimes a label was used alone as a
charge, so as a way to mark newcomers, it's no bad idea.

Daniel "do you put a label on newcomers?" "yes" "tell me what it is"
"the label" "yeah?" "certainly" "what do you mean?  tell me the label"
"I just did" de Lindecolina
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com