[Ansteorra] Voluntary tagging

[Samantha Smith]

Aha! I like it.

Sophie is not the pheasant plucker, she's the...

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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