[MR] Things I didn't know about Barracuda

[firespiter at yahoo.com]

Yes, please let us discuss historical authenticity. But let's do it while you are cleaning the mud off of your combat boots, touching up the paint on your aluminum shield, and re-taping your rattan weapon in vinyl duct tape. Because I really want to hear how unauthentic and period incorrect it would be for anyone to ever consider using something as ludicrous as a Seahorse as a badge.

Meanwhile I will open the volumes of historic heraldry where people have actually used charges of squirrels, fleas and enflamed snails. But that blue and white Seahorse really gets under your skin, huh?

Or is your objection because Spike has a horn? Is that the problem? It's a totally unrealistic projection of a real seahorse...Unlike all of those real dragons, mermaids and griffons that are running around? Or the real purple tigers with red claws and teeth you see in the zoo? Is that the real issue here? Because I just really want to know what the real objection is. Is it because it's unrealistic or it offends your delicate sense of heraldic correctness?

-Cian of Storvik

> For me, it's shame on bad heraldry, and shame on bad
> history, and  
> shame on whoever thought this would be a good idea in the
> first place.
> 
> Where, historically in medieval Europe, would *anyone* have
> ever  
> conceived of a seahorse (with a horn, yet -- I suppose
> butterfly wings  
> are right out as it's aquatic!) as a totem for a
> martial kingdom.
> 
> Frankly, it annoys the living hell out of me.
> 
> 
> Effingham