Re: GDB's mascot?

Elena Zannoni
2001-07-18T12:16:00Z

Jamie Guinan writes:
>
> 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.

Elena

> -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
>