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Forgive me if this has been discussed before (I ran a search, but didn't find anything), but it's always an interesting discussion.

One of the things I love about forums is looking at everyone's avatars and trying to figure out what they mean and what they are. Your avatar is like your fingerprint, so why not tell everyone what your avatar is all about?

It'll be fun!

My avatar du jour is a character from the web comic, VGCats, and is actually an edit of this avatar.
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For one, he just looks Black Mage-ish, and two, a few days ago I had a moment of insight and realized that his wand just needed a few tweaks and it would become a whistle. Huttah!

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Mine is the ideal expression for every event, ever since the wind changed and I got stuck this way.
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Mine used to be a photograph (of myself) that I used to use as my Avatar on BALDUR's GATE. A Role-playing Game. My son still plays it. I don't seem to have the time.
Then I went into an avatar frenzy and heaped up a load of them. Recently I had an image of the Good Soldier Svejk dozing by the Company Telephone. I might go back to that.
One of my avatars is an impressionist Stag. The current one is an impressionist Fred (me). I used to have software for creating GIFs wich move about, but since the company went onto XP, none of them work.
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I'm not telling - so there!! Besides, I think I need to go have my diaper changed.
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Post by Nanohedron »

Can't explain mine. You could probably attribute some sort of subconscious stuff to it, but I just happen to like it, is all.
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Innocent Bystander wrote: The current one is an impressionist Fred (me)..
It puts me in mind of that drawing of "What's on a man's mind", which I won't show here, this being a Family Forum, but here's a link:

http://www.popartuk.com/humour/whats-on ... poster.asp
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Self explanatory (but I'll try):

I'm a fifer.
I'm dead.
I eat fifes.
'nuff said.
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My current avatar is simply myself, piping at the beach on Sanibel Island.

... original photo...

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Post by Innocent Bystander »

fyffer wrote:Self explanatory (but I'll try):

I'm a fifer.
I'm dead.
I eat fifes.
'nuff said.
Wow. How long you bin dead, Fyffer?
Remember that story about the saint who brought a monk back from the dead, and the monk said "Hell is not as black as it's painted..."
Any comment on that?
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According to one of the characters on Babylon 5, Daffy Duck is the Egyptian god of frustration. :)
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it's a picture of Tom and me -

.......I'm the cute one......
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I'm just sitting in front of my iBook making a cranky face at my daughter, the photog, in this one.
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The one I have now (March 2006) is my attempt to have something Irish-y for St. Patrick's Day. The funny bird that I had for a while is a metal garden sculpture that we sell at the store where I work and I thought it was cute so I bought it and took a picture of it. The tree with snow is a tree in my backyard. And sometimes I just use a picture of my face. I try to change my avatar to match the season.
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Martin Milner wrote:Mine is the ideal expression for every event, ever since the wind changed and I got stuck this way.
....and I couldn't just let Martin get away with his shot of Bertie!
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Mine is the Andromeda galaxy.

When I look at a picture of a galaxy, like this one, I am first captivated just by the sheer beauty. Then my mind turns to how unimaginably old the light which made that photograph is: nothing on earth including the earth is anything but a newborn compared to the age of that light. We are simply not equipped to understand that kind of age except as an abastraction.

Then my mind turns to the vast size of that thing. I know the numbers, I can look up the comparisons, but there is still no meaningful way to even begin to grasp that kind of huge. Again, we are simply not equipped to really understand that kind of size, except as an abstraction.

Since my mind can't understand these things, and knows it, it simply empties itself out. Therefore, I find looking at pictures of galaxies to be very relaxing on the mind.

The equivalent function on most personal computers can be acheived by flipping the power switch to "off." 8)

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