#262296 - 06/08/2005 16:15
What IS that in your avatar??
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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Years of wondering what exactly ARE the things in some peoples' avatars has finally led to another pointless fun thread.
So, to the following people (and more that I'm forgetting), what IS that in your avatar?
RobV, RobS, pgrzelak, ricin, peakmop, cwillenbrock... and so many more...
And if you have a confusing avatar that really needs explaining, please do, because I may not be the only one scratching my head,
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#262297 - 06/08/2005 16:21
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
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Well mine's pretty obvious, but I'll tell anyway- it's just a picture of me playing my guitar that our rhythm guitar player took during a rehersal one day.
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#262298 - 06/08/2005 16:26
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: JeffS]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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I tend to swap mine around a little. I used to have the "Wizard" character from Gauntlet II, captured from a MAME session for the purpose.
At the moment, I have #2 of The Kids Next Door, from the cartoon of the same name. Number 2 (no, I refuse to spell it as they do in the series, thanks...) is the "2x4 technology operative" for "sector V" of the KND. He is very much the engineer type - knows what he is doing technically, not too brave, thinks he is funny when he is really not (bad puns are his specialty), that kind of thing.
Hmmm... That one has been up there a while. Perhaps it is time for something new...
Edit: And now for something a bit different - the Tech Support Sphere! Now if I could just get photos that would have the answers readable in a 65x75 window, I could animate the GIF and allow everyone to get answers to all their questions... 
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#262299 - 06/08/2005 17:43
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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addict
Registered: 18/02/2002
Posts: 658
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Mine is Ryu Hayabusa from the NES game Ninja Gaiden (one of my favorites). Before that I used to have Kid Icarus.
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#262300 - 06/08/2005 18:08
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: visuvius]
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old hand
Registered: 14/08/2001
Posts: 886
Loc: London, UK
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I'm not sure what I have for mine so I'll edit this post once I've posted it and had a look....
EDIT: Oooh, it's me getting my car sideways on a wet track 
Edited by furtive (06/08/2005 18:09)
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#262301 - 06/08/2005 19:50
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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veteran
Registered: 19/06/2000
Posts: 1495
Loc: US: CA
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Mine are: - A jar with some ricin in it.
- The lion dancing from Kenya.
- Strong Bad dancing.
- The seagulls from Finding Nemo.
That's all I have in there right now.
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#262302 - 06/08/2005 22:22
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: ricin]
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Registered: 10/01/2001
Posts: 630
Loc: Windsor, Ontario Canada
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Remember this one?
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#262303 - 06/08/2005 22:46
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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enthusiast
Registered: 30/12/2000
Posts: 249
Loc: Dover, NJ
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Mine is a crop from the cover artwork of Tool's Lateralus CD.
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#262304 - 07/08/2005 00:01
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 504
Loc: Lummi Island, WA
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Thats me underwater about a thousand miles off the coast of Hawaii.
Self portrait I think.
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#262305 - 07/08/2005 00:09
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: fusto]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 06/10/1999
Posts: 2591
Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Thats me underwater about a thousand miles off the coast of Hawaii.
Ah, I wondered about that -- how you got that effect. I've only seen it in the morgue, but I don't spend nearly enough time under water!
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#262306 - 07/08/2005 03:50
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: jimhogan]
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Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 504
Loc: Lummi Island, WA
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In the morgue...?
Here it is unedited.
Makes the whole underwater and not-a-dead-body thing a little bit more obvious.
And yes the water really is that blue.
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#262307 - 07/08/2005 06:39
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: fusto]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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My current one is a picture of me under an overhang 22 metres up at my local climbing centre, taken by the guy belaying for me...hmmm, wonder if that was a good idea 
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#262308 - 07/08/2005 06:51
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: jimhogan]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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Oh - Jim...why WagonBoy? I must have missed that title change.
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#262310 - 07/08/2005 10:24
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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enthusiast
Registered: 06/08/2002
Posts: 333
Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
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Mine is pretty obvious, just the open road, whiteline fever, hard drivin' music, onwards, ever onwards, and all that!
Best one I could find for a carplayer forum!
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#262311 - 07/08/2005 12:20
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: pedrohoon]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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It's the picture you get when you're lying down on a freezing beach in Portual in January and take a photo at an angle of me standing above you.
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#262312 - 07/08/2005 17:53
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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A detail from a piece of original comics art I own by Paul Chadwick. It was intended for the cover of his Concrete: Think Like a Mountain trade paperback, but was replaced with a different piece that actually contained a, well, mountain. The piece I own was included as an interior plate, IIRC.
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#262313 - 08/08/2005 02:53
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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addict
Registered: 10/11/2000
Posts: 497
Loc: Utah, USA
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It's an orangutan (duh). I found it as one of the default selection of pictures you could choose for your user account in Mac OS X. But, it stopped being included with the OS at 10.2, I think.
I picked it because I like primates, and this particular one appeared exceptionally wise.
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#262314 - 08/08/2005 09:42
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14478
Loc: Canada
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Mine is simply me and helmet, sitting on the summit of the Eichorn Pinnacle above Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park in California USA. That's the main summit of Cathedral Peak in the background.
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#262315 - 08/08/2005 12:53
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
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Anybody who's met me will find this blindingly obvious but my avatar is a picture of me from an old student radio ID card.
I like it when people actually put a picture of themselves as their avatar, helps you know who you're conversing/arguing with.
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#262316 - 08/08/2005 13:26
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: andym]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Careful what you wish for... Sometimes, those photos can be pretty scary!
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#262317 - 08/08/2005 13:46
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
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*shrug*
Some photo I edited.
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#262318 - 08/08/2005 14:50
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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old hand
Registered: 17/07/2001
Posts: 721
Loc: Boston, MA USA
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Mine is a crop of a screen grab form that hilarious Nutrigrain commercial that was never aired.
"I feel grrreat!"
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#262319 - 08/08/2005 16:03
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: FireFox31]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 21/05/1999
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Loc: Cambridge UK
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#262321 - 08/08/2005 19:52
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: Dignan]
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Registered: 29/06/2002
Posts: 531
Loc: Triangle, VA
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Mine is just an eclipse, one you can pick here. I like wolves/moon etc so figured it would work.. I used to have a small pic of part of my tattoo (wolf head) i photoshoped but lost it a few formats ago..
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#262322 - 08/08/2005 19:55
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: Dignan]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 3608
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
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The nickelodeon version of the cartoon network has Invader Zim on several times a day.
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#262323 - 08/08/2005 20:33
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: Dignan]
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old hand
Registered: 23/07/2003
Posts: 869
Loc: Colorado
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Actually, I've forgotten what mine is (not what it looks like, but what it actually is). I know it's from an anime, but I can't remember its name. If anyone knows a lot about the show (Webroach?) would someone mind telling me what the character is really about?
Heh. Actually, it surprises a lot of my fellow Japanese students, but I'm really not too much into anime. I like some of it, but it's never really done as much for me as live-action Japanese film. I'll check with a few friends, though; they may know.
My avatar is Gally from the manga "Battle Angel Alita", one of the few anime I've ever really been into. It used to be the "rant" icon on my old website.
Maybe time for a new avatar. Hrmm....
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#262324 - 08/08/2005 20:39
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: msaeger]
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Registered: 14/02/2002
Posts: 804
Loc: Salt Lake City, UT
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Mine is a comic version of me that a friend drew up for my website.
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#262325 - 08/08/2005 21:02
Re: What IS that in your avatar??
[Re: webroach]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12318
Loc: Sterling, VA
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Actually, I've forgotten what mine is (not what it looks like, but what it actually is). I know it's from an anime, but I can't remember its name. If anyone knows a lot about the show (Webroach?) would someone mind telling me what the character is really about?
Heh. Actually, it surprises a lot of my fellow Japanese students, but I'm really not too much into anime. I like some of it, but it's never really done as much for me as live-action Japanese film...My avatar is Gally from the manga "Battle Angel Alita", one of the few anime I've ever really been into.
Ha, and all along I thought it was Kenshin Himura. It looked like there was an X on the left cheek I've been meaning to watch more Japanese film. For the time being, anime satisfies my love of fantasy stories, even when I can't understand what they're talking about. There are definitely types of anime that I'm not really into.
Aha! As I was writing this post, I remembered what anime my avatar is from. The title is not exactly easy to remember: .hack//SIGN
I still have no clue what the hell is going on in that anime series. It's basically a fantasy world like a lot of anime, but the twist is it's really an MMORPG where the players are almost totally immersed into the world. At the end of the series, I had no friggin' clue what was going on, and I have little to no idea what the significance of my avatar's character was. I pretty much just know that his name is Maha.
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