From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Buettner To: Elena Zannoni , Cc: Andrew Cagney , Gdb List Subject: Re: GDB's mascot? Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:55:00 -0000 Message-id: <1010718205521.ZM3324@ocotillo.lan> References: <3B55BCE0.7000508@cygnus.com> <15189.60966.985655.746177@krustylu.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00256.html On Jul 18, 4:14pm, Elena Zannoni wrote: > > An aardvark comes to mind, as something that, well, eats bugs. > > The blue one from Pink Panter comes to mind, but you'd want > > something different so as not to step on anyone's copyright. > > > > For a fish, the archer fish is known to shoot down bugs from > > low hanging plants by spitting water at them. > > > > http://www.whozoo.org/Intro2000/rickahlg/RA_ARCHERFISH.htm > > > > Now, this is a cute fish! I like it. I like both of Jamie's ideas for a mascot. With regards to the archer fish, I noticed from the link that Jamie provided that this fish inhabits brackish waters. That would seem appropriate for GDB's mascot since GDB is frequently used to debug brackish code. Kevin