Frank Evans contributed:

>Have we considered submitting the amazingly erudite contributions of
>this newsgroup to one of the world's major universities for a higher
>doctorate.  "By the authority vested in me, the Chancellor, I award you,
>S. Dial, the degree of Doctor of Apparent Time. And you can keep it."
>Or perhaps we deserve a coat of arms.  How does "Sir Sun Dial" sound?  A
>timely monarch might pronounce "Rise, Sir Sun Dial, (and also set)."
>But what defaces a heraldic shield to denote an elder sun?  Isn't it a
>sort of crescent moon? Suggestions in blazon, preferably.


Frank!! - Elder sun!... Eldest son!... ouch!

Not really a suggestion but a jest in similar vein!

As the Rolls Royce, bearing the arms of the British Royal College of 
Heralds 'jumped' the traffic lights the heraldicly-switched-on policeman 
shouted

"Know'st thou not Gules from Vert?" *


Tony (just finished a big and heavy bronze dial fifteen feet up a wall so 
in lighter mood) Moss.

*non-UK readers scroll down for explanation









































*'Gules' = red in UK heraldic language and 'Vert' = green....





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