[MR] Invisible Madman (was OA for O&A)

[Alfredus Scurra]

  While we're dreaming, I think it would be doable to have a "Paint Your 
Own

  Device" program, where you pick a field, then (optionally) a division 
or

  border, paste some charges on and color them, etc.  You 
could disable

  illegal color combinations, e.g., your field is red, so green is not 
an

  option for your sheep.  As you go, the matching blazon grows 
in a sidebar.

  Then-- and here's the big payoff-- the program makes an Internet 
query

  against the big O A database in the sky. 

 

There's _way_ too much ambiguity in blazon for that to work 
well.

An old joke illustrates the ambiguity of English by telling of a

computer program that translates English into Russian and

back; when someone inputs "Out of sight, out of mind",

the machine spits out "Invisible madman".  (Come to think

of it, did some Vincent Price movie have that title?).

 

Can you heralds in the house cook up some valid blazons

that  a hypothetical (or actual, if you have one) blazon program

would misunderstand?

 

-- Alfredus Scurra

Per pale azure and argent, a jester's belled

hood of two ears affronty counterchanged 

--- guojia at earthlink.net 

 
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