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It's not a really really badly drawn ax with a weird wavy yellow handle, it's yellow paint coming out of a paint pot. The reason the "ax" looks nothing at all like an ax is that it isn't supposed to be an ax.
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A bucket of yellow paint would be "B"
By that logic, it might as well be "A."
A is for A Xylohphone
B is for the Band in which I will play the Xylophone
C is for the all the Concerts in which I will play the Xylophone
D is the for the Disappointment my parents showed for my selection of the Xylophone
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M is for the Mallets, used to play to Xylophone
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W is for the time Wasted, learning to play the Xylophone
X is for the way the Mallets are held whilst playing the Xylophone
Y is for Why did you choose to dedicate so much time to playing a Xylophone?
Z is for the Zoo to which the Xylophone was donated as entertainment for the chimpanzees
Just having the stream-of-consciousness writing above, I think it should also turn into the story of the eventually fatal decline of enthusiasm for the instrument.
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In a way it is disappointing... Almost certainly, the person who drew this axe is still alive today. There are ~8 billion people alive today, so it is a simple matter of figuring out who to ask. Yet, while everyone might be only 6 handshakes away from everyone else (on average), we do not have sufficient human connectivity to locate this person, even with hundreds of people putting at least a little thought/effort in…
I'd pay good money to watch a cinema verité documentary capturing the moment when the graphic artist encounters the StackExchange page and reads each comment in turn, while the camera slowly zooms in closer and closer on their eyebrows as they alternately furrow and rise up in surprise.
I would bet that the Chinese manufacturer that cloned the design never had one of the original balls in their possession in the first place. They probably saw photos of the ball online, copied the design as closely as possible and googled some clipart to fill in the letters that weren't visible in the photos. That clipart was Swedish, maybe by coincidence but probably intentionally.
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Hi lolinder, welcome to HackerNews. Your comment implies that Stack Overflow isn't currently fun. You are of course well within your rights to make that assertion. However, I find that your comment may be improved by removing any implication that Stack Overflow isn't fun. So I invite you to explain your reasons and maybe consider future improving edits to your post.
This is almost too polite to be Stack Exchange satire.
First comment on the answer: > This is quite the most extraordinary stack exchange answer that I've ever seen. And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN.
Trying to force a research/speculation on a mistake hardly deserves the most extraordinary answer. A better approach: the ball, likely, can be traced to the company producing it. The toys for very young kids tend to be regulated, hence expensive. Contacting the company would be a direct approach, significantly improving the yield to provide a correct answer.
My kids had an alphabet/animal book where each page had an an [Adjective] [Animal] pattern: "Breakdancing Bear," "Rollerskating Rabbit." "X" was a problem. They ended up saying "Fox in sox."
And the manufacturer couldn't find the original designers' details. And laid no claim to copyright (which seems strange).
Perhaps it was the case of a knockoff of a knockoff of a knockoff. A CAD file from the 1990s bumping around commodity manufactures via QQ and USB sticks, the design adapted the next order of 10,000 items by any one of a multitude of small commodities producers. Having sourced during that time to now, I'd fully believe it.
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By that logic, it might as well be "A."
Extending this, can there be found a single image that can be representative of all letters of the alphabet? A is for A Xylohphone B is for the Band in which I will play the Xylophone C is for the all the Concerts in which I will play the Xylophone D is the for the Disappointment my parents showed for my selection of the Xylophone . . . M is for the Mallets, used to play to Xylophone . . . W is for the time Wasted, l…
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/5592333/screenshots/15202838/...
