h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Lets put two together, as Mudhooks has suggested: regular member and honorary member. lets discuss suggested designs here so we can have a plan ready for the artists.

To start off, I for one don't think that it should be stereotypical: no hockey players in lumberjack shirts drinking beer with a mountie. And no moose in the background.





Actually, on second thought, throw in a maple leaf and that may be just what we need.

There might be some ideas here: http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/alphabet.htm

http://public.fotki.com/Mudhooks/my_stuff/just_plain_old_sill/beav.html
http://public.fotki.com/Mudhooks/my_stuff/just_plain_old_sill/cigarbeaver.html

I think we need some other (more dignified) people in on this.

I'm going to drink NyQuil now.

More dignified? I assume you mean yourelf.

NyQuil ids goood.

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"more dignified..."

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/9134/

Perhaps something based on, incorporating, or inspired by our arms?

http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/arm1_e.cfm

I agree with anhaga, no moose in the background - the moose should be in the foreground. Perhaps a beer-swilling typing moose superimposed on a large red maple leaf.



And whatever happened to our demand for a ?

I've had a response. We need to come up with a pretty specific description of what we want. Do we want a banner for the site as well as badges? Do we really want beer drinking moose? Do we want a cigar smoking beaver? Do we want a beer drinking moose and a cigar smoking beaver standing heraldrically on each side of our coat of arms? Do we want a brigade of mounties riding moose?

Do we want the badge to say "member" on a ribbon underneath or somehow worked into the picture? What colours do we want? What type-face? Do we want to be whimsical or serious? Should we try to symbolize our history somehow? Our geography? Should the maple leaf be there?

Personally, I lean toward something whimsically serious involving our history of multiculturalism, our many founding nations, our geography from sea to sea to sea with a moose, a mountie, Louis Riel, Chief Crowfoot and an inuksuk with the flag waving majestically above the green and pleasant land. And down at the bottom a little 'welcome' mat.

I think we need more suggestions, however.




There is an ongoing moritorium on new smileys, they say.

"Personally, I lean toward something whimsically serious involving our history of multiculturalism, our many founding nations, our geography from sea to sea to sea with a moose, a mountie, Louis Riel, Chief Crowfoot and an inuksuk with the flag waving majestically above the green and pleasant land. And down at the bottom a little 'welcome' mat." With Colin Mochery, rampant....

you've got a thing for Colin Mocherie.

Everything so far sounds too cluttered and messy. What's wrong with an inukshuk framing a maple leaf? It acknoledges that which was before and that which is, as well as being friendly and inviting.

It acknowledges it as well...


It's early here.

finally a voice of rason (and spelling). That does sound pretty good to me.

(did you notice my bilingual post?)


Here are some images to go along with Zoomer's suggestion:

http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/inukshuk.htm
http://www.gov.nu.ca/Nunavut/English/about/nun_flag.gif
http://canflag.ptbcanadian.com/

So far, I know where my vote is leaning, but I hope more of us will come by.

What can I say, balding Canadian men do it for me...

Actually. It is because he is just about everywhere you look these days. He is on "Whose Line Is It, Anyway", "Blackfly", "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", has his own show with a forgettable name, and is on commercials..... Oh, and a movie... Can't recall the name, about a woman having a baby.

"an inukshuk framing a maple leaf?"

or a maple leaf framing an inukshuk..

This has my enthusiastic vote... just as long as the inukshuk isn't wearing a mountie hat!

btw, here is a very nice one!

http://www.sulis.net/inukshuk.htm