Re: GDB's mascot?

Jamie Guinan
2001-07-18T11:54:00Z

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

-Jamie

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> So,
>
> GDB needs a mascot for its new improved, comming to a web site near you,
> ... web pages. Any idea's? Someone long in the tooth remember if there
> was once a mascot?
>
> The only thing I know is that there is something of a tradition (within
> old Cygnus at least) of naming people that worked on GDB and even
> various gdb projects after fish (flathead, kod, carp, ...).
>
> Andrew
>
> A few suggestions:
> http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/root/domino/infseries/infsheet.nsf/6adff5ed78795dc64a256516001f223e/fecf011a7b088aff4a2566430022630d?OpenDocument
> http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/root/domino/infseries/infsheet.nsf/c3bc9da6cf25dd844a2565190029c480/8284d01c3eacd7fb4a25664700062715?OpenDocument
> http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/scripts99/9901/img/diver.jpg
> http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/esl/spfish.html