# What is your symbol?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-symbol/341338>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 24, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-symbol/341338 "2006-01-24T01:33:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-symbol/341338/41 "2006-01-25T19:56:45Z")

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A bat with wings spread, it carries in its feet a parchment on which is drawn a long black line terminating in a circle with a minus in it.

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**Author:** ![Thirty-Nine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@Thirty-Nine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thirty-Nine)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-symbol/341338/42 "2006-01-25T22:04:57Z")

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[A disembodied ant head](http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8136/bumble5lv.gif)

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-symbol/341338/43 "2006-01-26T02:02:09Z")

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Argent on a pall purpure an angel proper, vested vert, winged argent, crined gules, holding in his dexter hand a sword couped disposed in fess with which he defends a man’s heart held in the sinister hand all proper; between to dexter scales of justice Or and to sinister a loaf of bread debruised of a rose proper.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-symbol/341338/44 "2006-01-26T02:29:17Z")

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As the old-timers here will tell you, [THIS](http://www.supermanhomepage.com/multimedia/Wallpaper-Images/s-Background.jpg) is a symbol that means a lot to me.

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