----- Original Message -----
From: Avdi B.Grimm <avdi / mycroft.localdomain.fake.web-hosting.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 9:37 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:21032] My $0.02 on a mascot


[snip]

> So to me the Kinglet has always been a symbol of hidden beauty lying just
> below the surface;  and also a rememinder of a wonderful weekend spent in
the
> mountains of West Virginia.

That's neat.

> Aslo, FWIW, I think the only impression many of the people I know would
get
> from an Anime babe as as a mascot would be that Ruby is a language for
> pimply-faced, maladjusted computer nerds who live in their parent's
basement
> and have never had a girlfriend. ;-)

You say that like it's a bad thing.   ;)

Hal