Super ball

A few years ago we went on a family holiday to Levkas in Greece. There was a swimming pool at the little resort where we stayed, and in this pool there was a ball with which we used to play. It was a simple, cheap plastic ball. I think it was white with a brownish pattern of brownish illustrations on it.

Now these illustrations are the interesting part. As my eye sight got a bit blurry from the chlorine, after playing in the pool for a while, I noticed that the illustrations on the ball looked like a hand with a raised middle finger! Now imagine my pleasant surprise — as an old punk rocker — to find a ball with raised middle fingers in a swimming pool in the middle of nowhere in Greece.

On closer inspection it turned out that the pattern did not consist of raised middle fingers. Each middle finger was instead formed by the word “SUPER”. But it was set in such a way that it looked like a raised middle finger. Ever since that holiday in Greece, if someone yells That’s super! we wonder why they are so rude.

Kiki, my kid, remembers it like this:

The foot of the letter P is standing on the baseline, and its head sticks out above the other letters. You can click on the illustration to make it blurry.

But I think it was set like this:

The head of the letter P in this version is as high as the other letters, but its foot sticks out below the baseline. If you look at it upside down, it does look like a raised middle finger. You can click on it to emulate chlorine blurriness and to flip it upside down.

I know this is a long shot. But stranger things have been found on the internet. I would love to find this ball. Or a picture of this ball. It was a cheap plastic ball, and we played with it in Greece in the summer of 2016. I am not sure about the distribution of cheap plastic balls: are they regional? Or could it be that it was sold globally? I mean, who doesn’t want a Super ball?

So if you are an incredibly lucky owner of this ball, could you please send me a picture? Or if you would like to get rid of it, I would love to pay for the shipping costs. That would be super.