A request for arms.

[Flip Molinar]

Name: Phillip Mungai

Request: If it so please the Squirrel King of Arms, I request the assistance of the College in designing and obtaining arms for myself and my lawful heirs.

Favorite colors: dark green, gold, and dark blue

I would like a sun on the top right of my shield and a waning moon on the upper left with a golden background behind the sun and a dark blue background behind the waning moon. At the bottom I would like a wavy blue river running through a dark green field.

Thank you.

[Flip Molinar]

I humbly ask that my request be acted on, though there is absolutely no rush, I just wish to make sure it is not forgotten.

Thank you once again.

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

I'm sure they will be granted during the next Talossan Holiday.

[Flip Molinar]

I thank you for your quick reply. I am sure that would more than suffice.

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Just don't ask me when the next holiday is...

I'm not on the mailing list for the calendar.

[Flip Molinar]

Feschtâs Naziunáis (National Holidays)

* 11 January: Labour Day (commemorating the failed Communist coup d'etat that took place on this day in 1980)
* 21 February: Napoleon's Memorial Wargaming Day
* March: Berber Heritage Month
* 23 April: Newspaper Day (commemorating the first publication of a Talossan newspaper, this day in 1985)
* 1 May: Holiday of Hatred (recalling the theft of the Talossan flag that occurred on this day in 1983)
* 28 May: Juneau Day
* Summer: TalossaFest
* 24 June: Immigration Day (commemorating the opening of immigration, this day in 1981)
* 2 July: King Robert I's Birthday
* 6 July: Organic Law Day (it is a legal requirement that a fireworks celebration be held at the shore of La Mar Talossán on a date roughly between King Robert I's Birthday and Organic Law Day)
* 24 August: Monarchy Day (commemorating the restoration of the monarchy with the ascension of Queen Florence, on this day in 1987)
* 15 September: Game Day
* 22 September: Alfred W. Lawson Day
* 28 September: Democracy Day (commemorating the first elections in Talossa, this day in 1981)
* 12 October: Sovereign's Birthday
* 16 October: Publicity Day (commemorating the publication of the first article about Talossa to appear in the foreign press, in the Milwaukee Sentinel, this day in 1984)
* 11 November: Armistice Day / Ziuâ d'Armístici.
* 25 November: Victory Day (commemorating the day in 1980 when Talossa won the "Cone War")
* 12 December: Language Day (commemorating the first use of the Talossan language, this day in 1980)
* 26 December: Talossan Independence Day (by law, the houses, buildings, and streets of the nation are found decked out in the national colours of red and green in the days leading up to Independence Day)

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Yeesh...

the new guys get all the good stuff.

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

The relevant question is not when the next holiday is, per se, but when the next honours list is scheduled to be issued. Which happens to result in the same answer: 21 February. But I'm just pointing that out so no one thinks they got overlooked on 11 January, which is a holiday (one which went unnoticed this year) but NOT a regular honours date. The honours calendar is discussed here:

talossa.proboards32.com/index.cgi?board=collegeofarms&action=display&thread=1179327190

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

I'm so clueless at times...

[Hooligan]

Sir Cresti is sadly correct that Labour Day went a bit unremarked-upon. For my own part, I fell ill on Friday evening, preventing me from making a pompous speech commemorating the fateful defeat of the Communist Revolution in Talossa. I take it that everyone else was just as busy resting on the holiday as I was, thus explaining the silence in these forums on our shared day of pride.

Happy Labour Day Weekend, though, everyone!

Hooligan

[Owen Edwards]

Bump.

[Hooligan]

May it please the Squirrel King --

I have worked up the following (very rough) emblazon for comment, according to the initial thoughts of the petitioner:

I (probably incorrectly) count the complexity of this blazon as eight -- four for tinctures, two for charges, and two for ordinaries.

Columcille Pursuivant

Per fess wavy vert and azure
on a chief per pale azure and or
a decrescent moon or and a sun in its splendour gules.

[King John]

The second of these has a plain out-and-out tincture violation with the blue fess on vert.

The first is skating real close to the edge of bad contrast. Note that we have a complex division line between two tinctures that are already poorly contrasting; to my eye, the combination is nearly unidentifiable. On top of that (in more ways than one), we have a chief divided between two tinctures only one of which has good contrast with the field it sits on. Very iffy.

The motif of the chief is very nice. It's the field that strikes me as needing more work.

I get a complexity of nine — four tinctures, sun, moon, fess-line, chief, pale-line.

But then, what do I know?

— former Blanc Wolf

[Flip Molinar]

I thank you so much for this. If this is all legal, I will be most satisfied.

[Trotxâ]

john said:

The second of these has a plain out-and-out tincture violation with the blue fess on vert.

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I get a complexity of nine — four tinctures, sun, moon, fess-line, chief, pale-line.

To the surprise of no one in the College, Blanc Wolf Herald Emeritus nails it.

The design is also a bit unbalanced.

I'm not sure how best to fix this. S:reu Molinar has some great ideas, but we need to simplify and increase the contrast. Adding balance would be nice too.

What if the petitioner drops the fess, and instead has the field per pale azure and or with a sun in chief over a waning moon in base, both countercharged?

-- Jaune Sabre Herald, Squirrel King at Arms

PS: Yes, I'm a sucker for the Cub Scout colours.