So what WOULD your avatar be if this site allowed?
Maybe since we can't use them, it would be instructive to have a thread to post --imaginary-- avatars. ;)
Here's the one I usually use, big deal:
Why would it be instructive?
because avatars give an additional glimpse into the interests and personalities of the owner
Rubbish, it's only what they want to make people think. What they post tells the real story.
True. Otherwise, what would the pic I would use in my avatar, the pic on my public profile, say about me? That I want to be a Pez dispenser? That I am a duck, of the daffy order?
The profile pic suffices. ;)
sure, but you can't divorce what people want to present the world from their personality.
If you're not interested, don't post. If you want to argue about it, how about the why no avatars thread. I'm curious to see what people might choose.
yeek. okay, I'd vote no on that one. Besides, it's too big! :)
I'm just glad HM decided not to show us the rest of the pic.
I haven't said too much about the avatar question. But I'm glad we don't use them. I used to participate in another forum (sports related) and the avatars and HTML sig lines are just visually exhausting - blinking, scrolling, animated things that just tax the eyes and brain.
I see where Cloud picked a somewhat serene and not a "look at Meeeee" avatar which is fine and all but since we don't have an approval committee anything goes. As I think back over the past few years of the Cellar, I have waking nightmares just thinking about what some people would have chosen.
On a related note, I drive around and can't help but notice what some people do with personalize license plates and wonder what on earth they were thinking.
There's a sig line that can be used to say something about yourself and I think quite a few people use it very effectively.
But that's just my opinion and differing ones count just as much.
Besides, it's too big! :)
I understand you're not the first to say that about HM's cock.
Trivia question: What argument was settled by this picture? Glatt you are disqualified (assuming you know the answer).
it's okay that you guys don't want to use avatars--I just wanted a fun thread with a little self-expression, 'kay? Don't make it into more than it is.
I understand you're not the first to say that about HM's cock.
The chicken, however, is another matter altogether.
:D
Just kidding HM!!
Trivia question: What argument was settled by this picture? Glatt you are disqualified (assuming you know the answer).
I do know the answer. Mostly I'm impressed with the photographer for figuring out how to take this picture. Real creative thinking from that guy. Whoever he was.
Trivia question: What argument was settled by this picture? Glatt you are disqualified (assuming you know the answer).
Yes, yes. I know too, but it seems to soon in the thread to answer.
My Daddy told us the story when he hand-made a zoetrope for us. Bless him, I think we were more interested in Swing-Ball that year.
I'm glad we don't have avatars because I would get avatar envy. I don't have the inclination or resources to find something that would go even halfway to communicating how bloody cool I am.
Maybe since we can't use them, it would be instructive to have a thread to post --imaginary-- avatars. ;)
Here's the one I usually use, big deal:
The same one I use now:
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Trivia question: What argument was settled by this picture? Glatt you are disqualified (assuming you know the answer).
I know.
Interestingly, that picture is part of the "logo" for Elttaes Theaters here in my neighborhood. Yes it was very clever.
sure, but you can't divorce what people want to present the world from their personality.
Certainly can, many people think they really are what they project when it's far from the truth.
If you're not interested, don't post. If you want to argue about it, how about the why no avatars thread. I'm curious to see what people might choose.
How many times do you have to hear it, you don't own the thread. If you don't want to argue, don't.
you don't own the thread.
you mean this thread about the pioneers of motion pictures?
...the window to the soul?
i'd be giving them to people, don't worry SG....i'd make sure yours was extra cool.
i'd be giving them to people, don't worry SG....i'd make sure yours was extra cool.
That reminds me...
Trivia question: What argument was settled by this picture? Glatt you are disqualified (assuming you know the answer).
that black jockeys were genetically superior athletes?
Ooh, just thought
I'd have the one Bruce posted
here but really small so as not to frighten the horses
I do know the answer.
Yes, yes. I know too, but it seems to soon in the thread to answer.
I know.
Dammit, I don't know! Someone say it.
That would be a GREAT pic for you SG !!!
Is it still to early to post the answer? 'Cause I know too! Woohoo! I know an answer!
This is mine.
that black jockeys were genetically superior athletes?
JJ: Hey Al, we have... a... Sit-u-Ashun. That requires Remeedia-shun.
Big Al: No absolution widout restitution!
JJ: You know. The Rainbow. Coalition funds. Be low. So--
Big Al: So- Get LJ on my show! Let ALL the peoples know.
OK - since my obscure trivia question wasn't so obscure, post away the answer!!
Whether or not a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at the same time. (It does)
Mine would look something like this.
Hmm. Some of you have personalities that seem a little . . . bland. And imaginations to match.
It's okay! Just gotta get some juice in your life, people!
Yup, got me banged to rights there guv
Avatars communicate the same thing to the members of an online community that novelty T-Shirts
(IE "Shit Happens When You Party Naked" etc...) communicate to the members of a shopping mall.
I want some scintillation!
. . . but of course I can't demand, only request.
"Pierced in Places You'd Love to Lick"
I also might consider this one:
This is my avatar on some sites. It's an Avatar brand bass speaker cabinet. So this is a self-referencing pun that nobody would get without explanation, which I like to pretend makes me secretly ironic and cool.
Of course, since it does no such thing, that makes it "as useful as tits on a bull", or, just as useful as every other avatar out there.
Hmm. Some of you have personalities that seem a little . . . bland. And imaginations to match.
It's okay! Just gotta get some juice in your life, people!
I'll take that as a compliment... and I have plenty already, thank you. Apple by preference, though I like orange and grapefruit as well.
So this is a self-referencing pun that nobody would get without explanation, which I like to pretend makes me secretly ironic and cool.
It does make you ironic and cool! See, because the picture I posted earlier in the thread is a character named "The Avatar" from a show named the same thing. So we'll be ironic and cool together and the rest of these people can all go be
genuine together somewhere.
Who you calling genuine?!?!?!
Who you calling genuine?!?!?!
Not you ;)
I knew the Muybridge trivia answer ... I was crazy about horses when I was younger and read everything. Most books have information about the motion study pictures.
I use the same avatar on most boards I go to that use them.
What about your signature: "wolf eht htiw og" ...? I would make that part of my MO if I were you.
See, because the picture I posted earlier in the thread is a character named "The Avatar" from a show named the same thing.
I got it, but only because my son doesn't miss an episode! ;)
What about your signature: "wolf eht htiw og" ...? I would make that part of my MO if I were you.
That's a bit of hommage to LJ, actually. I can't take credit for it.I only post as wolf on a couple boards.
My .sig has been pretty much stable for several years.
I know, it's LJ's work, but it was freely given. Wherever I posted as "wolf" I would use the shit out of that.
All hail the ironic and cool people!
[COLOR="gray"]My plan to play the genuines against the ironics is finally coming to fruition![/COLOR]
Maybe since we can't use them, it would be instructive to have a thread to post --imaginary-- avatars. ;)
Here's the one I usually use, big deal:
Same can be said of our user names. It's just silly fun.
Undertoad--I think your Avatar avatar is pretty clever!
And - not only do I use the Avatar brand bass speaker cabinet as my personal avatar, I also use it as my personal speaker cabinet. I have two of them, and they are great.
Hmm. Some of you have personalities that seem a little . . . bland. And imaginations to match.
No imagination? The avatar I posted is a black bear hibernating in a cave. The black bear symbolizes me, in a state of slumber, waiting for the spring which is my life to awaken as I too, awaken to my true self and emerge...strong, rested, and sure. The cave is the dark space which I had slowly retreated to over the past couple of years, a shelter from the madness and sadness, a roof from the rain of despair and loneliness...yet positioned next to a beautiful forest of life and goodness.
No imagination...puh! ;)
thought it was a Rothko painting.
My Avatar from another phase in my life:
@BigV: Your avatar was
Avatar!
I must say Flint, you have a flair for the obvious.
I can't say if it would have been obvious to everybody...
Bruce's avatar :love:
From
Funny Pictures thread
Flint, that's big V's wizard merit badge. Seriously.
Bruce's avatar :love:
From Funny Pictures thread
It looks like that turtle threw up. If I sat on him, he certainly would.
It's not your avatar because it's you
It's your avatar because it's a picture of your bathroom.
In fact I remember you posting a photo of it in the Doo-Dads thread when you first installed it to fill your sunken bath :p
This would be my avatar.
Kuchiki Byakuya from the anime Bleach. But way shrunk down.
Flint, that's big V's wizard merit badge. Seriously.
:lol2:
:snif: pass the tissues... heheh.. hehe. good one!
dis would be mine.......love him.
My avatar?
Actually its a pic of my son photoshopped into the Avatar.
Here are two of my favorites.
that's pretty interesting! funny how some people's are just the same as their physical selves, and others are very different.
the guy with the man boobs scared me though. ;)
I'm amazed to see how many of them resemble (closely) their avatar.
Notable exceptions the odd male/ female switch of the Korean guy at the start and wheelchair-bound Jason Rowe's avatar - who is highly mechanised, which makes sense when it looks like Jason relies on technology for life.
I would want this one, but not on this site given that Wolf & Syc are far bigger fans than me and are the reason I now see the Kitty as an acceptable accessory design.
Cool though (
thanks axlsoen!)
I use this on another board
Afraid mine's a bit predictable
.
This is my current avatar on The Bosque:
This is the one I used on the Bosque... the only site i've been on and used one.
That's awsome syc.
Thanks! I did a search for Hello Kitty photos one day and that one came up. As cool as that is, I ain't putting something like that on my car.
I use this on another board
The board I'm on with horrible avatar bloat automatically assigns that one to anyone who has been banned for TOS violations.
Heh.
It would be my ass, of course!!
Maybe you need to read
this.
:dedhorse:
Oh...n that wouldnt be my avatar.
@fargon: Is that a Dale Keown Hulk?
It would be either this...
or this...
Can anyone guess what the first one is???
Looks like a fossilized scotch egg
@fargon: Is that a Dale Keown Hulk?
@Flint I cant remember where I got that. It just fits my mood lately.
Looks like a fossilized scotch egg
Scotch egg it is! WTG monster! They are yummy, but this one looks over fried or something.
Scotch egg it is! WTG monster! They are yummy, but this one looks over fried or something.
I have many avatars in my collection, but my current one at EI is:
close....
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This is my avatar on my gaming sites...and yes, I roleplay as Mistress Stormie :whip:
ooooh, Mistress Stormie! I likie!
Mistress Stormie,
May I humbly suggest that you adjust your signature... from
'tis better to die on your feet, than live on your knees
to
you'd better live at my feet, on your knees - or die!
Considering my recent behavior, these 2 might do:
You don't need an avatar -you're using so much space with your "location", it has the same effect! We see all that blah, we know it's you.
Srsly, it would be nicer to know it's you because we can read your personality in your posts, rather than because it's a one-liner followed by a lot of blank space while your "location" catches up. That's why the cellar doesn't need avatars -content counts.
Despite my bitching, I remain hopeful that the glimpses we've had of the real you were not a swansong. That guy seemed OK. For the love of FSM, stop trying to be cool, and just be you. And lose the "location".
For the love of FSM, stop trying to be cool, and just be you. And lose the "location".
Never cared about being cool, only having fun.
You can stop you're attempt @ cool by not using internet shorthand that I don't know.
[size=7]HAPPY NOW!!!![/SIZE]
Yup - now tell us what you think how you feel... share your opinions and thoughts in your posts. I think ur a good guy - let it fly!
Insanely.
Now who will I stalk?
First I thought about this one:
Then I thought: fuck it, this one is better.
I think ur a good guy.
You take that back!
You take that back!
Dude - wtf? Lighten up!
I'd be this. The guy watching her backside. :D
Dude - wtf? Lighten up!
It's his warped sense of humor, nothing personal.
View my current collection
here.
A smaller version of the picture below is the avatar I use where they are allowed.
I like avatars. I am a very visual person and it helps me keep track of who said what. Names, I'm not so good with.
This is as close to one as it gets for me.
HereI wonder what Emma's avatar would be?
I wonder what Emma's avatar would be?
Why would you wonder that?
Zippy: That's creepy looking.
