What's up with your avatar?

5k · October 28, 2002

I see folks with some rather interesting pics in their avatar. I try to be a little creative sometimes myself. I was wondering where folks got the pics for their avatar, and the story behind them.

To start off, here's a history of mine:

My first avatar came about when I was listening to the wonderful bluegrass music on the Deliverance soundtrack, and I noticed this young man on the cover. It seemed a good fit for my avatar. I scanned and cropped the pic, and ya'll saw it here for a short time.

My next avatar came on the heels of the Mitsuko era. Ironically, it was the night before Choberiba admitted the whole thing during chat that I made the image: a combination of part of a self portrait I made in a run-down section of Memphis and a pic Eric had posted on Mitsuko's profile. It took me several hours to figure out how to make an irregular crop.

This avatar came because my Mitsuko avatar had run its course, and I needed something new. It's a pic taken by my friend Matt during our hunt for this cache when I made a 55-mile bike ride. I wasn't particularly happy that the details were to small to appear properly in a 75-pixel wide avatar, so when I came across...

This image on the Official Homepage of the Fighting Whites Intramural Basketball Team from the University of Northern Colorado, I knew I had to use it. Regardless of its political position, I found the idea of a white stereotype as a school mascot quite amusing.

Jamie

October 28, 2002

My is of one of my rockets, I started using the user name that I have now 3-4 years ago (?). I created that name because the thing I was intrested in then was model (or highpower border line). I put that pic on there so people know what my user name means.

Wyatt W.

The probability of someone watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions.

3k · October 28, 2002

Is my friend Spirit. He's almost one year old. Seven in dog years.

I have no clue how to post any photos so if you remember any previous avatars the first one was me combat fishing on the wall in Oswego NY near Leto Island with my 10 Lb Brown Trout, the second one was me fishing in Maxwell Creek with my 15 Lb Brown Trout, The third one was a friend's dog (White, Husky, part wolf) but he passed away so now I use Spirit. I like switching them around. Anybody mind that? When people switch avatars? I didnt' mind when Brdad switched back. The dress was pretty cute though. Sometimes, I wish the avatar you had when you posted something would stay with that post and the new one would go on the new posts. Does this make sense?

Cache you later,

Planet

October 28, 2002

My avatar is a runic alphabet developed by Tolkien, called the Angerthas. It's based on a real runic alphabet called the futhark (named for the first six letters in the alphabet). In this case, the runes spell out the name "Azog". Azog carved these runes into Thror's forehead after he beheaded Thror. Kinda nasty when you think about it, huh? The title for the avatar is self-explainatory when taken in context.

Most people associate runes with occultism, but for me, that's hardly the case. See my sig. Historical linguistics are a hobby of mine.

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Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be also be like him.

October 28, 2002

<------- That's me Not much of a story, just another hobby.

1k · October 28, 2002

My Paul Bunyan avatar is what I started with. He stands in the Bangor, closest city to me 25 miles away. He stands for what a lot of Maine is. Bangor was a lumbering empire back in the late 1800's. The peavey in his left hand was also invented here in Maine. I tried the robot Marvin From HGTG but it was lame and I liked Paul Better. I decided instead to just alter the Paul Bunyan avatar to reflect current events in the forums. Unfortunately, the forums are lacking for intersesting content lately!

My avatar history:

With friends like you, who needs enemas?

October 28, 2002

It's just me & the sunset on Florida's West Coast. Relaxation at its finest...

- "This river don?t go to Aintry. You done taken a wrong turn." -

October 28, 2002

I'm 56 for cripes sake! :confused :

You can't be lost if you don't care where you are.

October 28, 2002

I came across this Troll watching me. Ok, Ok, I didn't really see a troll. My avatar is a pic of one of several trolls that I own. They are handmade and sold in Gatlinburg, TN. I think they are just too cool.

Remember, not all 'trolls' are bad!

KYtrex

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A "Buckeye" is just a "Hillbilly" that ran out of money on the way to Michigan

38.2k · October 28, 2002

My first avatar was a photo of me...boooring.

My second was a depiction of the murder of Jane McRae during the Revolutionary War. She was the fiancee of a Tory officer who served under Gen. Burgoynne. She was supposedly a beautiful and widely adored lass, with waist length, red hair. The story goes, that Burgoynne's Indian scouts killed and scalped her during a raid and brought her scalp back to camp, at which point her fiancee recognized her scalp and got pretty ticked off.

Despite the fact that Miss McRae was the fiancee of a Tory, her murder served to anger the local population and thousands who were previously not interested in taking sides, took up arms and joined General Gates' army at Saratoga. And the rest is history...well actually all this was.

My current one comes from THIS website,which I think is among the funniest websites I've ever run across.

"Men don't stop playing because they get old, they get old because they stop playing" Oliver Wendell Holmes

October 28, 2002

Mine is two cows from the "South Park" seires. A very funny off beat cartoon slightly if not grossly off track than the "Simpsons". I would like a better one, as I will have, but time and effort are standing in my way at the present time.

October 28, 2002

Mine is made from Mr potato head and a my gps unit. I incorporated the Scout sign on his right hand as im an Asst Scoutmaster here in tyrone PA. No story behind it. i just thought it describes my sense of humor.

October 28, 2002

Mine is the sum total of my creativity and inspiration captured as a single image!

October 28, 2002

Mine came about as a result of a previous post about possible celebrity geocachers. One mentioned spotting Elvis caching. I had an Elvis suit and a cache container ready to put out so i took this blatantly staged photo.

Visit the Mississippi Geocaching Forum at

http://pub98.ezboard.com/bgeocachingms

October 28, 2002

I believe mine came from the Pharmaceutics department at my college (University of Florida College of Pharmacy.) It has a gator wearing his lab coat, mixing up something with his mortar and pestle. Since my name is a combination of "Gator" and "Rx", this image fit pretty well.

October 28, 2002

This is Baby Boogidy. He likes to go caching incognito.

Visualize Whirled Peas

[This message was edited by Boogidy on October 28, 2002 at 08:59 PM.]

3k · October 28, 2002

I have been withholding posting your Family Tree's website for a while so as not to give away your identity and now you've gone and let the cat out of the bag . But I did send it to Skully & Mulder following a comment they made about your haircut or something. LOL.

Cache you later,

Planet

October 28, 2002

Ummmm...

I'll think of a good story later

Contents Under Pressure...

October 28, 2002

Is just cause its the Halloween season, and it was a funny picture I got from an email my mom sent me.

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Diplomacy: The ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way they actually look forward to the trip.

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October 28, 2002

7474505B was Jake's prisoner#. I got the avatar from this pic.

First you trade the Cadillac for a microphone, then you lie to me about the band, now you're gonna put me right back in the joint.

[This message was edited by 7474505B on October 28, 2002 at 10:51 PM.]

[This message was edited by 7474505B on October 28, 2002 at 10:54 PM.]

October 28, 2002

Harold is my idol. I want to be just like him when I grow up.

October 29, 2002

Mine is a Domokun which seems to be the mascot for a Japanese Cable Television station.

The Official Unofficial Domo Kun Website

Enjoy!!!

b

1.3k · October 29, 2002

I've had nick Captain Morgan in IRC and some other places in the net for several years. It's my favourite rhum and i have always 1 bottle of it at home.

1.6k · October 29, 2002

I modified the Gx logo to get the three colors of our hockey team in (red, white, and black). I first used a black GX and a red fill on a white background, then changed it to a white GX and red fill on a black background. As I look at it, it starts to remind me of a logo that might be worn to a klan rally. So, I am going to keep fiddling around with it.

By appointment to the Court of HRM Queen Mikki I.

October 29, 2002

..actually my younger brother drew this one for me..but it was a single-engine..a little cut-n-paste made it what it is today and I use it on my business cards..

October 29, 2002

a mythical-whimsical character of ancient Southwestern Indian Cultures. His likeness comes from petroglyphs (drawings) found on cave walls throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Southern Utah. The drawings depicted the life and spiritual beliefs of the Anazasi, Hopi, Zuni and other Southwestern Indian people.

He symbolizes joy, happiness, abundance, and fertility. He is believed to be a mischievous trickster and the spirit of music. He is often shown play a flute and dancing. The hump on his back is thought to be a bag containing seeds, plants, flowers and gifts to bring abundance to those whom he graces with his presence. He is the sower of good things.

The image was digitally photographed and processed from a new T-shirt. I have a collection of Kokopelli shirts that I enjoy wearing when hiking and geocaching.

"When you find it, its always in the last place you look."

October 29, 2002

My avatar is a painting by Johannes Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. In Thomas Harris' novel, Hannibal, the nurse, Barney, took up a quest to see every Vermeer in the world. That sounded like a lot of fun to me so I decided to try it myself. I started my search before I ever heard about geocaching, but it's similar to geocaching in many ways. I get the location from the internet, travel, use maps, etc. And the reward ... well, it beats a McDonald's toy I can tell you.

I've seen 8 Vermeers so far but I haven't seen my avatar yet. It's in Dresden, so it's not something I can do on a weekend. I like this painting for a number of reasons but I suppose I chose it for my avatar because Vermeer never painted Girl Reading the Forums in Her Cubicle.

2.9k · October 29, 2002

I love roller coasters:

Millennium Force Roller Coaster at Cedar Point:

My previous one is of me holding the GPS at the Millennium Force Coaster:

This one is my first one of me driving down the river:

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My home page about GPS units and information

1.8k · October 29, 2002

...but I've started modifying it to change with the seasons. Currently, it's a jack-o-lantern with a picture of a block of cheese cut out.

I've got a few days left to come up with a new one for November...

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Wisconsin Geocaching Association

October 29, 2002

Ours is a picture of the magnet sign(s) we stick on our P/U when we hook up the travel trailer and take off. Now we put them on even if we're just going out geocaching, in case some local cachers see us and can chase us down.

And the story of how we got the logo and the signs made up is just too long to go into. Suffice to say, it was all an accident.

Um, honey, did you mark a waypoint for the car?

6.4k · October 29, 2002

In the 1930's, Chrysler Corporation consolidated the parts divisions of all their brands (Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, DeSoto, Imperial etc.) into one division.

Thus the Chrysler Corporation Mopar (MOtor PARts) division was created. Parts used on ANY of the brands came in boxes branded with the Chrysler MOtor PARts logo.

Over time, "Mopar" became a synonymous term to use to talk about any of the Chrysler Corporation vehicles.

The avatar I have used so far was the Chrysler MOtor PARts Division logo from 1972-1984, which was the time of my life when my passion for Mopar cars was forged.

Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon.

October 29, 2002

This is a rather good likeness of Trudy & I. Most Wisconsin geocachers that know us will agree, I really do have that much hair on my face.

October 29, 2002

All previous Halloween costumes.

Can you guess who I am?

ChickenSoup

Primordial Soup.

What do you call 2,000 pounds of Chinese Soup? Won Ton.

5k · October 29, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by BrianSnat:
My current one comes from www.mytrailerpark.com website,which I think is among the funniest websites I've ever run across.

Brian, I actually came across your avatar while surfing somewhere, although it wasn't the site you cited.

Looking at that site, I find it fairly amusing, although I'd enjoy it more if the majority of photos weren't manipulated.

Jamie

1.4k · October 29, 2002

MMMmm hockey. I like the Red Wings.

My last avatar was some lame picture I got off the web. All the cool kids were doing it, I wanted an avatar too.

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trippy1976 - Team KKF2A

October 29, 2002

Mine is what I use to sign the logbook and often leave as a trademark in a ziplock bag.

8.9k · October 29, 2002

History of Avatars:

My first one

Avatar One: zzzzzzzzzzz, but too big to put here

Then the current one...

Calvin & Hobbes, the quintessential commentary of life in America, as seen by a micheivious boy and his tiger (which no one else sees move).

It captured the child-like, not the childish, imagination of a kid at heart in college. I faithfully read every single strip from the day it first appear in the local paper where Calvin caught Hobbes with a Tuna Sandwich - all the way through that fateful sled ride to oblivion.

On more than one time, C&H were off on an uncharted adventure to visit never before places. My other temporary avatar was the one below. I'll probably go back and forth to it.

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

"Therapy is expensive but bubble wrap is free."

1.6k · October 29, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by bigredmed:
I modified the Gx logo to get the three colors of our hockey team in (red, white, and black). I first used a black GX and a red fill on a white background, then changed it to a white GX and red fill on a black background. As I look at it, it starts to remind me of a logo that might be worn to a klan rally. So, I am going to keep fiddling around with it.

By appointment to the Court of HRM Queen Mikki I.

So, given the lack of expressed concern, I will assume that the current Avatar is OK.

By appointment to the Court of HRM Queen Mikki I.

October 29, 2002

This is my first attempt at an avatar. I wanted something that went with my login. Not sure if I will keep it for long.

October 29, 2002

this was a first attempt too but then figured i leave it and be ready for christmas

October 29, 2002

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Like it or not, IT'S ME!

I was a little scared to put a really good picture of me here.

AND,

NAKED was simiply of the question. Don't ya think?

Archie

October 29, 2002

My first was this image of me wearing some bubba teeth:

The current is a picture of Maynard G Krebs, aka Bob Denver, aka Gilligan. A play on my nickname. And part of the reason I got my nickname.

beatnik

October 29, 2002

The flag is the First National Flag of the Confederate States of America. The true CSA flag. (The other, devisive, flag is a battle flag, not the national flag.)

The motto is because I don't log my finds on the geo site.

The gun? That's just for fun! (This is my weapon, this is my gun . . .)

October 30, 2002

My avatar is adopted from the 'Pokemon' cartoon, the Koffing character matches perfectly with my look and intelligence

October 30, 2002

I went looking for something that looked redheaded, and, well... um... you can guess. I found this Jessica Rabbit, which for her seemed on the tame side, and dressed in a forestry uniform and it just seemed perfect. Now if only I were that skinny....

T-storm

http://www.cordianet.com/geocaching

October 30, 2002

Not being real creative, I had the VF logo originally - a take off of the Van Halen logo. That was boring, so I went to this logo:

This is a picture of my alter ego, Elmer.

The one I am using currently was an attempt at graphic art using the theme from this old thread about a cacher who seems to find a lot of virtual caches, and has his hand in the exact same position in many 'proof photos' which strike a quite the resemblance of photos on tourism websites.

Though it's outdated from that fun thread, I just felt like it was time for a change, and I'm too lazy to think of anything original.

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Go! And don't be afraid to get a little wet!

October 31, 2002

The dog sniffing the hydrant is synonymous with

Groundspeak, dontcha think?

October 31, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Cygnus-X1:
The dog sniffing the hydrant is synonymous with

Groundspeak, dontcha think?

For sure. I love Rush.

"SALESMAN!"

"Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape."

October 31, 2002

I'm sorta like the Halloween costume guy that posted a few above this...

Midget pirate

Pet Rodent

Caching at night dressed as Batman(Law enforcement loves this one, I now have my very own file)

Standing in a waterfall dressed as Batman

Vamp test makeup

"Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape."

November 1, 2002

I found mine while surfing the web. Can't remember the exact site but it accurately represents my interests. I might customize it later. Or maybe not.

"There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently."

What's up with your avatar?

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