# Help me identify this image **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039 "2017-02-17T13:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/1 "2017-02-17T13:00:14Z")
[![](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) Can anyone help me identify this? It’s on stickers around Manchester (England). This sort of thing is usually the work of visiting football fans, but I can’t find this one on a google image search. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/2 "2017-02-17T13:09:26Z")
Who’s visiting? It’s like a cross between a dolphin and a koi fish? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/3 "2017-02-17T13:40:38Z")
[Heraldry symbols.](http://www.familytreesandcrests.com/heraldry-symbols.htm) Scroll to the "D"s for dolphin Not a perfect match but hopefully it leads somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Dahu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahu/32/3416_2.png) [@Dahu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahu)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/4 "2017-02-17T14:16:07Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Who’s visiting? It’s like a cross between a dolphin and a koi fish? St Etienne were playing Manchester United last night, but it doesn’t look like one of theirs. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/5 "2017-02-17T14:42:45Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Heraldry symbols.](http://www.familytreesandcrests.com/heraldry-symbols.htm) Scroll to the "D"s for dolphin > Not a perfect match but hopefully it leads somewhere. Looks close enough to me. Heraldry is awfully inexact. I’ve definitely seen different versions of a coat of arms that look more different than your pic and the OP. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/6 "2017-02-17T15:06:15Z")
I think it’s that crazy rhyming slang thing. Funny fish rhymes with sunny dish, so it’s referencing potato salad. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/7 "2017-02-17T18:40:09Z")
It does look like a heraldic dolphin. As to its significance here, perhaps it could be related to the opening of a new nightclub? From the [University of Manchester Students’ Union’s website](http://mancunion.com/2017/02/07/student-spotlight-off-record/), dated 7th February 2017: > [@](#): > > The Off the Record team even bagged hosting duties for the Aus label’s 10 year anniversary party at **Manchester’s newly opened Dolphin Warehouse** , an impressive booking for any promoter, let alone a crew of first and second-year students fresh from throwing house parties & nights at Fallowfield stomping ground Koh Tao not long before. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/8 "2017-02-20T06:25:49Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > It does look like a heraldic dolphin. It most certainly does. Blazoned, that sticker would be “gules, a dolphin hauriant or”. Googling that phrase turns up a few hits in SCA-land, but nothing that I can associate with a real grant of arms. The “Dolphin Warehouse” angle seems weird, but who knows? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-image/780039/9 "2017-02-20T07:07:45Z")
The Dolphin Warehouse is apparently an underground club, which kind of fits with the cryptic nature of the posting. And nothing I’ve dug up with Google indicates that the heraldic dolphin is connected to Manchester at all in any kind of official way.