[pro] 404 animals

[Charles Sullivan]

Has a chameleon been suggested?  That would try to evoke an important aspect
of the language.  Maybe, as Steve suggested, as an animated gif of changing
colors....

Charles

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Weinreb <dlw at itasoftware.com> wrote:

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> Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
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> On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Steve Haflich wrote:
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>  My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex.
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>  It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life
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>  Indeed, the "Lisp is as old as the dinosaurs" is a real problem,
> and they really didn't stand that way.
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> What we need is something that connotes power, since Lisp
> is a powerful language, and we need something that really
> does stand that way.  How about Godzilla?
>
> Unforunately, not too many images of him are taken
> from the side; the best I found is:
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> http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100824212539/godzilla/images/a/a5/Lego_godzilla.jpg
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> and it doens't really solve the "dinosaur" problem.
> I'd still go for the "alien technology" guy.  I won't
> send any more mail about this; it's too silly.
>
> -- Dan
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