Just for fun - what does YOUR avatar mean?
- riverman
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My Chiff name is Riverman because I liive on the Eel river, and love playing alongside it and listening to the notes travel along the water. It sounds faintly elvish to me. My daughter just helped me get this avatar done, I would have been lost without her. If you look really close (nose pressed against screen) you can see the Eel river behind (beside, beyond?) me.
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- Tucson Whistler
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- falkbeer
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My avatar is from a cartoon by Dr. Fun, which can be seen here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ar00319.htm
The cartoon depicts a (fictitious) conversation between the famous physicists Erwin Schrödinger and Niels Bohr. The joke is about the thouth experiment designed by Schrödinger called "Schrödinger´s Cat". Very few people will probably get this joke, but I think it´s hilariously funny! I thought it would be appropriate to choose this picture since I am a great admirer of Schrödinger´s work and I too have studied physics. I´m also a bit "stiff" and academic in my apperance, very much like the figure in the cartoon!
"Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (IPA: [ˈɛrviːn ˈʃrøːdɪŋɐ]; August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961) was an Austrian - Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933. In 1935, after extensive correspondence with personal friend Albert Einstein, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment."
http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ar00319.htm
The cartoon depicts a (fictitious) conversation between the famous physicists Erwin Schrödinger and Niels Bohr. The joke is about the thouth experiment designed by Schrödinger called "Schrödinger´s Cat". Very few people will probably get this joke, but I think it´s hilariously funny! I thought it would be appropriate to choose this picture since I am a great admirer of Schrödinger´s work and I too have studied physics. I´m also a bit "stiff" and academic in my apperance, very much like the figure in the cartoon!
"Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (IPA: [ˈɛrviːn ˈʃrøːdɪŋɐ]; August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961) was an Austrian - Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933. In 1935, after extensive correspondence with personal friend Albert Einstein, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment."
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- falkbeer
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I´ve seen your avatar many times and it´s brilliant, witty and funny!john17 wrote:I just picked mine because I have an art background, and heck...what better for this forum than "Whistler's Mother"?
Cheers!
John
It took a couple of times before i got the pun I must admit though.
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- Jason Paul
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A friend of mine and I were reminiscing about growing up in the 80's and were looking around online for old toys and TV shows and came across this photo.
It's Mantenna from the old Masters of the Universe show. I just thought it was one of the stupidest looking toys I'd seen. So, of course, I had to make sure it ended up on a few hundred internet posts.
Jason
It's Mantenna from the old Masters of the Universe show. I just thought it was one of the stupidest looking toys I'd seen. So, of course, I had to make sure it ended up on a few hundred internet posts.
Jason
- nikiarrowsmith
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- falkbeer
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Any hooligans in Aberdeen?chrisoff wrote:Mine is Bill Hicks from his appearance in the preacher comic. I'm a huge hicks fan and it's an image that also reminds me of, well, me (or at least a part of me).
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