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#262296 - 06/08/2005 16:15 What IS that in your avatar??
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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]
JeffS
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
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]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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]
visuvius
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Registered: 18/02/2002
Posts: 658
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]
furtive
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Registered: 14/08/2001
Posts: 886
Loc: London, UK
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]
ricin
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Registered: 19/06/2000
Posts: 1495
Loc: US: CA
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]
ineedcolor
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Registered: 10/01/2001
Posts: 630
Loc: Windsor, Ontario Canada
Remember this one?



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#262303 - 06/08/2005 22:46 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
cwillenbrock
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Registered: 30/12/2000
Posts: 249
Loc: Dover, NJ
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]
fusto
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Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 504
Loc: Lummi Island, WA
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]
jimhogan
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Registered: 06/10/1999
Posts: 2591
Loc: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Quote:
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]
fusto
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Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 504
Loc: Lummi Island, WA
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]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
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]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
Oh - Jim...why WagonBoy? I must have missed that title change.
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#262309 - 07/08/2005 07:30 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: frog51]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Quote:
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


About as good idea as when I used to go climbing with Andrea my housemate at Uni. She was about 7 stone, I was about 13.5 stone. When I fell off if we were climbing at the local wall (and therefore not bothering to secure the belayer) we tended to meet each other half way...

I don't climb anymore, despite losing weight recently I'm still over 16 stone, which isn't exactly an asset when it comes to climbing. I even through my boot and harness away the other month, neither of which were ever going to fit me again.

And to get back onto topic, thankfully neither I or any of my friends had a camera at Uni. The world does not need pictures of me in climbing harness and pink boots !


Edited by andy (07/08/2005 07:32)
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#262310 - 07/08/2005 10:24 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
pedrohoon
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Registered: 06/08/2002
Posts: 333
Loc: The Pilbara, Western Australia
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]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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]
adavidw
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Registered: 10/11/2000
Posts: 497
Loc: Utah, USA
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]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14484
Loc: Canada
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]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
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]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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]
RobotCaleb
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin
*shrug*
Some photo I edited.

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#262318 - 08/08/2005 14:50 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
ithoughti
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Registered: 17/07/2001
Posts: 721
Loc: Boston, MA USA
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]
rob
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Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
Gir!

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#262320 - 08/08/2005 17:39 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: rob]
Dignan
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12318
Loc: Sterling, VA
Quote:
Gir!

Rob

I was wondering what that was! I've wanted to watch that show. Netflix time!

And Caleb, I've always like that avatar. It's a very cool image. You had one similar to that before, didn't you?

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?

Anyway, I thought it was a cool image, and it was a smaller file than my Stewie animation I had there earlier, so I figured that people here would appreciate that
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#262321 - 08/08/2005 19:52 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: Dignan]
SonicSnoop
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Registered: 29/06/2002
Posts: 531
Loc: Triangle, VA
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]
msaeger
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Registered: 23/09/2000
Posts: 3608
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
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]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
Posts: 869
Loc: Colorado
Quote:
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]
Waterman981
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Registered: 14/02/2002
Posts: 804
Loc: Salt Lake City, UT
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]
Dignan
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12318
Loc: Sterling, VA
Quote:
Quote:
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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#262326 - 08/08/2005 22:35 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: Dignan]
RobotCaleb
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 1866
Loc: Austin

Fairly similar.

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#262327 - 08/08/2005 23:09 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
Robotic
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Registered: 06/04/2005
Posts: 2026
Loc: Seattle transplant
While my avatar is easily distinguished and related to my screen name, the connection to me is not immediately clear.
Without further ado, I'd like to impress you all with the fact that I am, indeed, flesh and blood.
The connection is work-related. I make these do this.
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#262328 - 08/08/2005 23:31 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: Robotic]
genixia
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Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
That's me taking a quick drink.

Not really - it was a winter pool session, and I don't really care for the taste of chlorine.


Edited by genixia (08/08/2005 23:33)
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#262329 - 09/08/2005 00:43 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
Haha, lots to reply to, though just a ramble. Who else had far-out avatars?

visuvius: Oh, so you were the Kid Icarus one too? I spotted the Ninka Gaiden pic a mile away. Now if only I could make that jump in the the last level....

ricin: Haha, which are some of the same avatars used by Drakino, and previously used by Mach (Nemo) and others. Well, unless my browser just isn't showing it right.... like when it shows the top half of the yellow guy and a couple of gulls on the bottom...

ineedcolor: You've had some cool ones over the years. A shame the BBS dosn't maintain avatar with old posts. Didn't it, at one point? No, it maintained sig's...?

I really have to get my new avatar made. Eventually.

cwillenbrock: So it's just a face! Geez, here I've been thinking it's a deformed bug head or a Living Wall or something.

jimhogan: You too. What is that in your avatar? A super close up of your eye?

wfaulk: I've been wondering about that one for a long time too. Geez, I should have asked this sooner.

Rob: Haha, I always thought it was some twisted pun of an anime panda. That show sounds funny.
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#262330 - 09/08/2005 11:20 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3583
Loc: Columbus, OH
My username used to be Meatballman. I got my brother, who's a graphic designer/artist to sketch me up a quick caped-crusader meatball. When I changed my username, I left the old avatar so that people could connect my new name with me.
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#262331 - 09/08/2005 11:23 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: JBjorgen]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14484
Loc: Canada
Oh! So that's what happened to Meatballman!

I'd always wondered where you'd gone off to!

Cheers


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#262332 - 09/08/2005 15:19 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: mlord]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3583
Loc: Columbus, OH
Quote:
I left the old avatar so that people could connect my new name with me

Quote:
I'd always wondered where you'd gone off to!


Evidently, it didn't work too well Yup, that's me.
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#262333 - 09/08/2005 17:20 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: JBjorgen]
Cybjorg
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Registered: 23/12/2002
Posts: 652
Loc: Winston Salem, NC
Mine is a sharp dressed man with his head missing. Basically, it relates a certain level of anonimity.

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#262334 - 09/08/2005 17:29 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: Cybjorg]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Reminds me of sort of an ultramodern Magritte.
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#262335 - 09/08/2005 19:51 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: JBjorgen]
canuckInOR
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Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
Quote:
Quote:
I left the old avatar so that people could connect my new name with me

Quote:
I'd always wondered where you'd gone off to!


Evidently, it didn't work too well


Not all of us browse the BBS with avatars (and .sigs) turned on.

BTW, my avatar is just some random pic I found one day, which I happened to like.

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#262336 - 10/08/2005 11:57 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: canuckInOR]
DWallach
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 3810
My avatar came from O Brother, Where Art Thou (actually, pilfered from the movie's web site), but its origins go back to one of those cheesy name games at some summer program or other while I was in high school. You were supposed to come up with an adjective that began with the same letter as your first name that somehow described you. The irony of "DapperDan", of course, is that I generally avoid dressing up whenever possible.

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#262337 - 11/08/2005 11:09 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
CrackersMcCheese
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2489
Its a panda at a disco - its a disco panda! I was messing around in paintshop pro and made it. My girlfriend thinks DiscoPanda is cute so he stays

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#262338 - 12/08/2005 10:55 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: mlord]
genixia
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
Quote:
Oh! So that's what happened to Meatballman!

I'd always wondered where you'd gone off to!

Cheers


That's why I'm against having the name change feature turned on to begin with. A couple of people have changed and I can remember who they used to be, but certainly not all.
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#262339 - 12/08/2005 14:46 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: genixia]
Dignan
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12318
Loc: Sterling, VA
Well, I like the feature because it allowed me to finally change the case of my name. The letters and numbers stayed, but all those capital letters dropped case. I've thought about dropping the 17, too...
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#262340 - 12/08/2005 15:08 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: genixia]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14484
Loc: Canada
Oh, how annoying!

When I change my "display name", it changes globally for all past posts and references too.

So much for Hijackin' Fool.

Back to mlord again.

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#262341 - 12/08/2005 16:29 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: mlord]
Dignan
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12318
Loc: Sterling, VA
Well, it was time for a change!

I dropped the numbers (they were just randomly picked when dignan was already taken on AIM), applied an appropriate avatar, and changed my signature. Yes, my name is Matt!
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#262342 - 12/08/2005 16:31 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
JrFaust
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Registered: 07/02/2002
Posts: 193
Loc: New Richmond, WI
Mine is an edit of this picture.

Found on this web page.
And a pic of my empeg.


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#262343 - 12/08/2005 20:40 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: genixia]
JeffS
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 2858
Loc: Atlanta, GA
Yeah, I do wonder how many people associate me with "FerretBoy". Still, that name (picked very quickly from a fraternity nickname because I didn't think I'd stick around) didn't seem to convey my personality very well.
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#262344 - 12/08/2005 23:02 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: JrFaust]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14484
Loc: Canada
That's a great avatar.. my fav of the bunch, I think!

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#262345 - 13/08/2005 03:20 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
time
enthusiast

Registered: 20/11/2000
Posts: 279
Loc: Pacific Northwest
Mine is a scan of the top label of my empeg signed by members of the original team...Hugo, Mike, Peter, Rob, Roger and Steve.

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#262346 - 14/08/2005 18:02 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: time]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3995
Loc: Manchester UK
Ah so that's what it is, I thought it looked like a bus ticket.
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#262347 - 14/08/2005 23:14 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: time]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
time: THAT is awsome. I always thought it was a back stage pass or something.

JrFaust: It took me a while to see the empeg in your avatar. I always thought it was a fish, which was reinforced when I finally saw LoTR and understood the quote.

Dignan17: I always read your name as "Digi Dan" and assumed that your old avatar was some Digimon character or something... probably named Dan... or Phan Phan.
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#262348 - 15/08/2005 15:33 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: andym]
time
enthusiast

Registered: 20/11/2000
Posts: 279
Loc: Pacific Northwest
:-) Heh, I guess it looses just a bit too much in the reduction...
Perhaps I should look at one of those moving logo's that scrolls around to provide a bit better resolution. Hmm. I'll have to look into that.

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#262349 - 15/08/2005 18:42 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: time]
matthew_k
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:-) Heh, I guess it looses just a bit too much in the reduction...

Well, I knew what it was, but then patrick and rob have signed the tops of both my empegs, so I'm familliar with the genre.

Matthew

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#262350 - 21/08/2005 20:31 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
muzza
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Mine is Rick Hunter from Robotech/Macross.
I used to watch the series before school many years ago. I haven't seen the need to change it yet.
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#262351 - 22/08/2005 04:52 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
sein
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Registered: 07/01/2005
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I think that was the day I got my webcam working under Linux! Back in the early days of 2.4, Video4Linux was kinda flaky. I like the fact it is upside down - I never bothered to correct it, its different
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#262352 - 28/08/2005 19:33 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
schofiel
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Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
Two days after Amersfoort, 2004, it was late at night and I had drunk a few beers (as one does). The two boys were asleep in the bedroom next door. I plugged the TV output cable into the iXUS that I had been given at the meet as a special surprise. I was looking at the screen of the TV with the camera in my right hand pointing up at my face: accidentally pressed the exposure button and BING! my first ever digital photo. That's me in profile, in low lighting, loooking at the TV screen.

It seemed appropriate to use it as my avatar here, friends
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#262353 - 16/09/2005 05:24 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: schofiel]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
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Decided to change my avatar temporarily, in honour of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
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#262354 - 16/09/2005 07:06 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: frog51]
schofiel
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Registered: 25/06/1999
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Eh?
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#262355 - 16/09/2005 07:12 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: schofiel]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5682
Loc: London, UK
He's a Pastafarian...
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#262356 - 16/09/2005 12:45 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
Memil
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Loc: Sweden
Well, this is me in my halloween-make up...

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#262357 - 16/09/2005 13:21 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: frog51]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
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Loc: NH USA
Welcome my noodly brother! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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#262358 - 16/09/2005 13:59 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: sein]
sein
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I changed mine, its now, Gir! Sorry Rob, I know you are Gir too, but you have him in disguise so they don't look quite the same.

Its not stupid, its advanced.
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#262359 - 19/09/2005 07:55 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: Ezekiel]
frog51
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Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
Ha harrrrrr - I be on my way to my main client today. Wonder how they'll cope with the eyepatch and parrot. Will they prevent me boarding? I wonder.

Here's to a life on the ocean wave! Raiding and pillaging - oh, and talking like cap'n Jack Sparrow!
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#262360 - 21/09/2005 01:20 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: frog51]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
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Loc: East Coast, USA
Hahaha, nice. Here, I got all confused and thought toDAY was 9/19/05. No wonder everyone at work looked at me funny when I told them to "man the mizzen mast and aft the starboard keel hull!", because it's CLEARLY not "Talk Like a Pirate Day" today, now is it.
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#262361 - 21/09/2005 14:21 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
frog51
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Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
Hahahahaha - the funny thing is my two main clients that day took to it a little too well, and even today they are answering questions with "Yarrrrrrrr"
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#262362 - 05/01/2006 23:25 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: FireFox31]
robricc
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
I've gotten fatter.
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#262363 - 06/01/2006 19:42 Re: What IS that in your avatar?? [Re: robricc]
FireFox31
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Registered: 19/09/2002
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Loc: East Coast, USA
No way man, you've just gotten more-badass-sunglasses-er.
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