--- Begin Message ---Hi Roger, What a fine idea to appeal to the much-needed younger set in dialling! I recall manually/digitally enhancing the original Tenniel line drawing of a Tove for someone in NASS.I'll see if it is small enough to attach to an SML message. T. ----Original Message---- From: rtbai...@telus.net Date: 11/08/2016 19:02 To: "Sundial list"<sundial@uni-koeln.de> Subj: Sundials and Pokémon The valuable content in Tony's email to the SML is quoted below. "I've just received some nice pictures of the reproduction of a 1773 dial made originally by Heath and Wing of London which was re-delineated in 2010 for its new home at Holland College on Prince Edward Island in Canada showing six years of interesting patination. A footnote accompanying the pictures tells me that the dial has become a prominent feature of the campus but there is now a 'Pokemon Go' creature to be found dancing on it. Ouch! Tony Moss" I have witnessed several young people playing Pokémon Go around town. Perhaps we can take advantage of this phenomenon and increase peoples interest in sundials by encouraging sundials as Pokémon locations. Precise locations are available on the web in various sundial registries world wide. Perhaps we could nominate the the "slithy tove" as a wild Pokémon character and the wabe as a Pokémon cell or gym. An image of a "slithy tove as it did gyre and gimble in the wabe is here. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Jabberwocky_creatures.jpg Humpty Dumpty reported that "Toves are something like badgers, they're something like lizards, and they're something like corkscrews. Also they make their nests under sun-dials, also they live on cheese." Perhaps the Pokémon toves in the southern hemisphere would have counter rotating corkscrew tails. Should we forward this modest proposal to the Pokémon developer "Niantic Inc" in California or the "Pokémon Company" in Japan for implementation? Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs Sidney by the Sea BC --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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