Spotted paint scheme?

Spotted paint scheme?

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AlVal

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1,883 posts

264 months

Saturday 22nd November 2014
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Has anyone painted their cerbera in the most appropriate scheme, I.e. spotted (white and black for instance?)

ScottyOkinawa

46 posts

128 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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In what way does the Cerb look like a milk cow? or a Dalmatian ???

Seriously though, please explain why its the most appropriate?
Cheetah spots I would understand....

Love, peace and hair grease,
ScottyO

AlVal

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1,883 posts

264 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Well, since you ask... smile

Cerbera - named after Cerberus.

Cerberus was a pretty mean pooch owned by Hades, and the doggy's job was to guard the entrance to the underworld.

But think for a second about the name that Hades gave his three-headed dog...

Cerberus, from greek Kerberos, meaning... Spotted!

Hades called his dog "Spot"!

now you know how to paint your cerb smile

Tanguero

4,535 posts

201 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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AlVal said:
Cerberus, from greek Kerberos, meaning... Spotted!
Ummm - no it doesn't. Spotted is στίγματα - stigmata. Κέρβερος (Kerberos) is just the proper name of the three headed hound and has no other particular meaning in translation. He is usualy portrayed as being plain black in contemporary Greek and Roman depictions.

Besides it's by no means definite that the Cerbera is named after Cerberus (otherwise it might be called the Cerberus...)

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Or maybe named after Cerbera odollam, commonly known as the Suicide tree??

AlVal

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1,883 posts

264 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Kerberos, which may be related to the Sanskrit word सर्वरा "sarvarā", used as an epithet of one of the dogs of Yama, from a Proto-Indo-European word *ḱerberos, meaning "spotted"[5] (This etymology suffers from the fact that it includes a reconstructed *b, which is extremely rare in Proto-Indo-European. Yet according to Pokorny it is well distributed, with additional apparent cognates in Slavic, British and Lithuanian).[6]

Supateg

742 posts

142 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Well I prefer 'Fluffy'
Nice and cute!

Anyone externally flocked a TVR?
(Yes that is the intended spelling)


anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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Supateg said:
Well I prefer 'Fluffy'
Nice and cute!

Anyone externally flocked a TVR?
(Yes that is the intended spelling)
Mine was pretty much flocked everywhere! wink

jamieduff1981

8,025 posts

140 months

Monday 24th November 2014
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I think we can safely assume that nobody has painted a Cerbera like a milk float.