The_Green_Goblin: A bar sinister is the diagonal stripe on a coat of arms that runs from the upper right to the lower left. It signifies an undesirable family. A noble family's coat of arms would have a bar dexter, which runs the other way.
Anonymous1: @The_Green_Goblin: it doesn't count, if you don't give the audience a chance to answer! And, incidentally, they were calling Simon, a BASTARD, all the time that the Underdog Show, was being aired!
Anonymous2(1): When in this World, the headlines read,
Of those whose hearts are filled with greed,
Who rob and steal, from those who need,
To right this wrong, with blinding speed, comes
Underdog!
Underdog!
Underdog!
Underdog!
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder!
Fighting all who'd rob or plunder,
Underdog!
Hooraaaaaaaah!
Under......
Underdog!
Urbane_Guerrilla: "Bar sinister" is in heraldry a resolute misnomer, and coat-armour would not advertise an undesirable family anyway. An angled stripe throughout, or edge to edge, is a bend, (prob var. of 'band') and comes in regular default dexter, or else sinister. Bars come rather arbitrarily in pairs only, and are accounted a "diminutive" of the broad horizontal stripe the fess. A wholly different stripe, incapable of itself of dexter or sinister.
A baton sinister, a shortened bendlet-sinister that does not reach any edge of the shield, may indicate there was a non-inheriting by-blow of a certain family whose paterfamilias wasn't entirely keeping it in his codpiece at least at one time. Said bastard's son may bear this baton-overlaid arms without differencing, being just as noble as anybody else, but not heir to the titles and lands the original, un-batoned coat is the emblem of.
Heraldry is like flags, only it's a flag for a person, not a nation.
Anonymous3: I grew up in the '60's so Underdog was a favorite of mine being I was only 8 when it first aired and I admit that I had a crush on Sweet Polly though admittedly it was more for her being bound & in danger than anything else. Simon Bar Sinister was just as bad as Riff Raff and a step above Snidely Whiplash & Dishonest John of 2 other cartoons aired during this Era (Dudley Do-Rite and Beanie & Cecil respectfully for those in the dark lol). There were other cartoon villains but these were a decade or so before G.I. Joe {Baroness} and He-Man {Evil Lynn} not to mention the Marvel Superheroes women along with the Superfriends. Of course a certain June Lockhart as Mrs Maureen Robinson was fantastic as a human female).
Anyway Sweet Polly Purebread was one of the first hotties and even as a canine I preferred her over Nell whose face was just too plain.
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Of those whose hearts are filled with greed,
Who rob and steal, from those who need,
To right this wrong, with blinding speed, comes
Underdog!
Underdog!
Underdog!
Underdog!
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder!
Fighting all who'd rob or plunder,
Underdog!
Hooraaaaaaaah!
Under......
Underdog!
A baton sinister, a shortened bendlet-sinister that does not reach any edge of the shield, may indicate there was a non-inheriting by-blow of a certain family whose paterfamilias wasn't entirely keeping it in his codpiece at least at one time. Said bastard's son may bear this baton-overlaid arms without differencing, being just as noble as anybody else, but not heir to the titles and lands the original, un-batoned coat is the emblem of.
Heraldry is like flags, only it's a flag for a person, not a nation.
Anyway Sweet Polly Purebread was one of the first hotties and even as a canine I preferred her over Nell whose face was just too plain.