dlm wrote:
> "Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann" <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote in message 
> news:439c1340$1@news.povray.org...
>>Make its lips rounder, less angular... and another nitpick: I doubt 
>>whether the three gray spiky things to the lower left are really suitable 
>>for small children!
> Those spiky things are called jacks and are a child's game.
> The idea is to spin them on a point or toss them while bouncing a ball or 
> such.
> The problem is that four (not three) equatorial points should have the 
> little spherical protrusions.
> See e.g. http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/jacks.jpeg
> So with jacks and jack-in-a-box all you need is a jack-o-lantern to get 
> really scary.

Nah, they're really caltrops.  ;)

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Tim Cook
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