Talk:Bar sinister

I believe bar sinister refers to necktie patterns, meaning "bars slanted to the left" and used by "The Bastard Corps" (a corps of marginally elevated peasants who were the extramarital offspring of wenches and noblemen) too low of maternal ancestry to be noble and too high paternally to be enlisted.

To this day it is an archaic term for the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Corps; highly skilled workers, craftsmen and administrators who keep the wheels on.

Some traditions of Warrant Officers, such as being called Mister not Sir and saluting only once a day, derive from this intermediate form of nobility.

I use the term to describe horizontal line artifacts on my MRI images! But if they slant either way I call the machine a bastard...

Merge
There being no objections, I completed the merge with baton sinister. I also removed the WP:HV tag as this is now a redirect.--Forlornandshorn 19:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)