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....
