Someone who knows more heraldry than me is sure to come in with more info, but I have to comment. I had heard that a bar could not be dexter or sinister because it runs straight across the shield. A bend can be sinister, because it runs diagonally. So you can have a bend sinister, but not a bar sinister.
Also heard that the bend sinister was never really a requirement for a bastard. There were several devices that could be used to tell different members of a family apart, and some of them were more often used for a bastard, but it wasn’t really standardized. I’m guessing that it became a literary device in later times and/or part of heraldry bookkeeping in certain areas long after heraldry had stopped being part of actual wars.
Feel free to correct me.
Liked Underdog when I was little. Still like the song. Loved the 3DBB. Always hated Polly singing. That song just sounded so whiney.
Didn’t the cloud people end up trading some of their ‘useless’ gold for silver in the end? See. If people would just talk instead of wreaking havoc and pillaging. . .
Underdog wasn’t the only one, either, don’t forget his contemporary Roger Ramjet.
When Ramjet takes his proton pill
The crooks begin to worry…
And what was the name of that short-lived '60s live-action show about the goofy superhero who took a pill which turned him various colors while it was taking effect?
Out west in Gopher Gulch lived Indian tribe.
Then come the pioneers, pushed them aside.
All Indians leave but two, they vow to fight.
What can two Indians do?
(Ooga-booga, booga, booga Ooga-booga-BOO!)
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Here comes the colonel with his sargeant,
Both are a-roarin’ and a-chargin’.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
*
Was the Underdog/Tennessee Tuxedo/Go-Go Gophers Hour the same block that featured the Three Musketeers? That show drove me to endless fury—not only was it terribly written and animated (even as a kid who would watch anything animated, I knew this), it always featured the same premise in which the young “wannabe” musketeer would always break the rules and end up saving the day, only to be sent to bed without his supper for breaking the rules, while the older musketeers laughed at and ridiculed him. What a neat little lesson in the monstrous unfairness of being a kid in an adult world.
Hanna-Barbera did The Three Musketeers for The Banana Splits Action Hour, although I suppose it’s possible that some latter omnibus program included them with Tennessee Tuxedo.
*Felix the cat
the wonderful, wonderful cat
whenever he gets in a fix
he reaches into his bag of tricks
Felix the cat
the wonderful, wonderful cat
you’ll laugh so hard
you’re sides will ache
you’re heart’ll go pitter pat
watching Fexlix, the wonderful Cat*
Not necessarily–I have a Jewish friend whose last name is barNir. I think both are used but I don’t know what the difference is.
Another Felix villain was Master Cylinder. I still remember the first time I heard of this in conjunction with a car and wondered why they named part of a brake system after a Felix the Cat villain…
In at least one case, Felix’s pal Poindexter was the villain, in little-kid cum mad-scientist-run-amok mode. IIRC, it was when the Professor went out to the opera, and he had Felix babysit his nephew, Poindexter, who simply would not stop inventing destructive gadgets and go to bed.
Usually, though, it was the Professor who acted as Felix’s nemesis, often with Rock Bottom as henchman. Bottom has also acted villainously on his own, and once played an innocent guy just trying to enjoy his vacation.
