Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]
s. keeling wrote this on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:03:40AM +0100. My
reply is below.
> There was an ancient, giant snail sort of thing (whose name escapes
> me) which spent it's life floating in the ocean wherever the
> currwent took it. Some fossils are a few feet across.
Ah, yes, the ammonites:
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonite
... ancient (and extinct) relatives of the nautilus.
o Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Chambered Nautilus." _Yale Book of
American Verse_. Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1912. Bartleby.com. 28 Feb. 2008
<http://www.bartleby.com/102/107.html>.
Aside from the Gnome connotation and the somber association with an
extinct species, another concern about using an animal mascot is
bumping up against an identical O'Reilly Nutshell book cover.
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