Who/What's in your avatar and why?

[catbert836]

I just changed mine to Abraham Lincoln from Karl Marx, because I think Lincoln was the best president this country ever had and the only good Republican president as well. What's your story?

[Bertha Venation]

1. the California Angels' 1971 cap

They're my team. O8)

[andjustice4all]

2. I chose

The Statue of Liberty because it goes well with my member name and I use the Lazarus quote from its base as my sig line.

[bigwillq]

3. Upside down flag

Voter fraud
Gonna keep it at least until the end of the month

[catbert836]

8. I'd keep it for the next 4 years if I was you.

I don't have it because I think it's too common.

[bigwillq]

24. Well, I guess I'm just common folk

I will change it, like I said, maybe by the end of the month.
I thought it was a good idea so I went with it.

[New Earth]

60. it's not voter fraud

it's election fraud. the voters didn't commit the crimes :hi:

[Pirate Smile]

4. Heartbroken after the election and nothing political felt right so I

went seasonal.

I think I'm almost ready to peruse the avatar offerings again.

[Longgrain]

5. Guess? n/t

[catbert836]

9. I don't know/not sure.

What is it? You've got me stumped!

[Longgrain]

26. It's a detail of one of my paintings...

someone suggested I needed a more personal avatar than the one I had, and what could be more personal than one of my own works...


Here's a larger image...

[booley]

6. the Moon Eye

it's sorta my sidgel. Liked the design ever since I saw it in a roleplaying game.

if it means anything to me, it signifies the seeker in the dark.

On edit: Oh, and I made it al rainbowy becuase..i'm a gay dude. And it's purty;-)

[meganmonkey]

7. I had the I Voted avatar on election day

and then there was so much traffic so avatars didn't show up for a few days. When they did show up I decided I should change mine and THe Scream was the only thing that felt right at that point.

[tuvor]

10. Devo's Duty Now for the Future album cover

Their quasi-concept of de-evolution seems to be more prophetic as time goes on. Plus, DNFTF is one of the great unsung albums.

Freedom from choice is what you want!

[Athletic Grrl]

11. self-explanatory

.500 will be a stretch, but I'll be at that miserable hellhole of a ballpark nonetheless.

[cmd]

12. I'll have to post to remember my avatar

Haven't thought about it in a while - but I did edit my sig line yesterday.

Now I remember - always a democrat!

[tuvor]

13. That's a great sig line. Who's the author?

[cmd]

72. No clue

My daughter sent it to me last week.

[devilgrrl]

14. Howard Stern

Because he's smarter and funnier than most think - hates Bush - it ticks over-sensitive DUer's off. :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

15. It's the golf cart that used to be in my sig line.

It used to be quite large, so I decided to downsize.

Oh yeah, I'm a golfer (a bad one, but still), so hence the reason for a golf cart. I generally walk when I play instead of ride, but it still works.

[Left Is Write]

16. Snowflakes.

It's winter.

I didn't feel like making a statement.

[madison2000]

17. I changed from Red Wisconsin to Abe Lincoln a few weeks ago

because I can't stand the idea of WI being red! When I get to 1000 I will have a BLUE WI as my avatar.

And I love Abe Lincoln, and think he was our greatest president. At least we had one.

[NoodleBoy]

18. because I can't scrawll this on my computer screen without causing damage

and I've scrawled it on damn near everything else, it's a No-W symbol

[hippiechick]

19. The object of my undying lust.

:loveya:



:hippie:

[benny05]

20. John R Edwards Is Mine

Because I thought JRE would have made a wonderful vice-president or president of the US. Having met him twice personally, I think his core is so strong and good. If there was an avatar of his wife Elizabeth available among the choices (I'm a newbie, so I haven't donated at this point), I would probably have her pic as avatar as well. My personal blog avatar is a look alike of my cat.

I really liked JRE's expression "hope is on the way" when he was on the stump this fall. In my mind, he remains of all of the candidates the best stump speaker as he gets the crowd energized, partly because he gets energy from them.

JRE, :yourock:

[catbert836]

25. He's gonna be president someday

I knew it when I went to his rally in my hometown.

[RC]

21. Mine is of a wooden figurine I picked up in

Hawaii the last time I was there.
Make Love not War.
Is not tenderness more conductive to Peace than harassment?

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. A brain.

It's a joke between reprehensor and I.

I have a major head for tons of useless trivial facts. He often calls me The Cray (after the super computer). OR he imitates Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction when I give him some trivial fact and he says, "Look at the big brain on Fudge!"

Ergo, the brain.

[Liberal In Texas]

23. The Space Shuttle Launch

...which I hope we'll get going again soon.
It has a Texas connection and for my son who is a Mission Controller for NASA.

[joefree1]

27. No sheep

I have a hard time thinking inside the damm box.


Seating now available in the Smoking Section:
Politics, humor, death and the Devil - http://www.eDiablo.com

[katinmn]

28. changed mine recently to an orange ribbon

in honor of our fight for free elections.

[Longgrain]

33. Hey katinmn

Happy 1000th post...

Welcome to the four digit club...

:party: :toast: :party:

[katinmn]

36. thanks. I quietly slipped in a couple posts ago. :-)

[Longgrain]

41. What! No uber-vain

ask-me-anything "got to get to 1000 before I go to bed" thread?

How subtle...:thumbsup:

[katinmn]

43. No, I hate to draw attention to myself.

I'm a shy Norwegian, dontchano?

[Longgrain]

46. I'm smiling...

I'm part Swedish myself...

And...

Ahem... (he looks around the room)

I'm shy too...:)



Don't tell...

They'll banish us you know? ;-)

[Cush]

29. Washington Capitals (NHL) logo

[LincolnMcGrath]

30. UNION YES

Because I work for a living.

[Hans Delbrook]

31. It's a DNA graphic

Because I'm a Molecular Biologist. Even though I'm so much more than that :D - that one fact informs my view of just about everything; whether I want it to or not.

[NewHampshireDem]

32. Siddhartha Guatama, aka The Buddha

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/buddha.htm

It's a PhotoShopped image. I ran some filters on a pic from a temple in South Asia (not exactly sure where) so that it would show up nicely in that little box.

I chose the Buddha because I'm a Buddhist--though not always a very good one!

[ET Awful]

34. My avatar is the Mighty Quinn

Because Quinn rules :)

[TaleWgnDg]

35. Free avatars . . . yours for the taking . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Free Avatars . . . Yours for the Taking . . .

1.)
John Adams (1735–1826), Founding Father, born in Quincy, Massachusetts (in area then known as Braintree but now known as Quincy), leader in the Revolutionary group opposing the British, member of both First Continental Congress and Second Continental Congress, member of drafting cmte of Declaration of Independence, negotiator of Treaty of Paris ending American Revolutionary War, author of the Massachusetts constitution which was the first constitution in the nation and upon which our federal constitution was modeled, lawyer, legal scholar, our 2d president (1797–1801), schoolteacher, foreign diplomat (France, England, the Netherlands), vice president under Washington (1789–1797), writer/author;


2.)
John Hancock (1737-1793), Founding Father, born in Massachusetts, President of the Continental Congress, informed General George Washington that the Declaration of Independence had been adopted on July 4, 1776. President Hancock enclosed a copy of John Dunlap's broadside of the Declaration of Independence along w/ the July 4 Congressional resolutions in Hancock's own hand. Hancock's ltr requested that "you will have it (the Declaration) proclaimed at the Head of the Army." Hancock was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, and governor of the newly independent state of Massachusetts. His roles in the American Revolution and the adoption of the constitution are central: as President of the Continental Congress, his is initially the only signature on the Declaration of Independence. Hancock coordinates and equips the continental army, including large expenditures out of his own pocket. Hancock turns the tide in Massachusetts in favor of ratification of the U.S. constitution. A merchant, owner of many ships, was a Privateer having received Letters of Marque and Prizes -- a very interesting character from Massachusetts and American colonial history.


3.)
Daniel Webster (1782-1852), born in New Hampshire, schoolteacher, constitutional law lawyer, scholar, New Hampshire U.S. Representative (1813–1817), Massachusetts U.S. Representative (1823–1827), Massachusetts U.S. Senator (1827–1841) and (1845–1850), Secretary of State (1841-1843) and (1850–1852), nationally known debater and orator;


4.)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a four-term Free-Soil, Republican (and Whig) U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1851-1874), and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1861-1871); Sumner was a slavery abolitionist in Lincoln's original party. As a stanch unabashed (black) civil rights advocate, I am sure that Sumner would never be a member of today's Republican Party. Massachusetts is damn proud of Sumner! (More may be found here at http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/usa/sumner.html) ;


5.)
This avatar is a symbol of the back-alley illegal abortions performed (with a wire coathanger) prior to Roe v. Wade (1973), when many women became seriously ill, maimed, unable to conceive again, and w/ many deaths -- a symbol of days that may return if Roe is over-turned by new U.S. Supreme Court justice(s) appointed through George W. Bush;


6.)
No discrimination in our constitution, no constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage, "freedom to marry" and the pink triangle symbol; and


7.)
Ribbon for no AIDS discrimination re gays.

.

[Vanje]

37. Idaho

Living in Idaho, being a lesbian sets me apart.
In DU, living Idaho sets me apart.

[Lizzie Borden]

38. Please could someone...

explain to me the avatar and how I can get one because I'm so computer-stoopid? Thank-you!

[catbert836]

39. Go to Forums main,

click "Options" at the top of the page, then click profile on the side and go to select avatar, 3rd option down I think.

[miss_kitty]

40. Sammy, my fabulous kitty

who was with me from the ages of 14-32. She was perfect. I love looking at her 'Pesky Kitty' photo That I took when she was 9 or 10.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

42. Graphic from The Violent Femmes "Freak Magnet" album....

Cuz I am a freak magnet.

[qnr]

44. Ensign Opus

Opus the penguin covers my affinity for penguins, Antarctica, Linux, the Coast Guard, personal flotation devices, herring/beer bellies, and lemonade. He's a real Renaissance penguin, even if he is a fricken' officer.

[Queen Jane]

64. i really like the quote in your sig. (off topic, sorry)

i haven't found a good unique avatar yet, so i'm using amnesty international because i support their work.

[qnr]

69. Me too (obviously), thanks. I have Amnesty International

on a lot of my envelopes.

[Solly Mack]

45. I teach fish to walk (stock answer)

[katinmn]

47. and you're very successful at it!

I'm seeing those little guys catching rides on cards.

[Solly Mack]

58. LOL Good one!

:)

[Placebo]

48. My avatar is...

Brian Molko, lead singer of PLACEBO, and my personal God.

[Longgrain]

49. Is it you?

Or your God? :)

[Placebo]

50. My God.

I'll have no other God before him. :)

[Longgrain]

51. Of course you're familiar with my God(dess)

tho I dare not post a picture of him/ her/ it, lest the Lounge tremble AND SHAKE ONCE AGAIN!!!!

:)

[Placebo]

53. Haha...

you can always link me. :D

[Longgrain]

56. Here's the link...

Pathetic ain't it...

I'll remove this here old link as soon as you acknowledge it, lest my muse withdraw her attention from me...

[Placebo]

59. NAH...

not pathetic. :)

[Longgrain]

61. Link deleted...

I agree... not pathetic at all...

[achtung_circus]

52. I like pigs,

Individually, and in small groups.

I also like bacon, ribs, Peameal bacon, pork chops, not a big fan of ham, though.

I believe it was Homer Simpson who mocked Lisa by calling a pig a magical animal.

I like pigs.

[ScreamingMeemie]

54. Truth? I'm lazy...lazy...lazy....

and a lot on my mind. You tell me...what should I change it to???? :shrug:

[Mr. McD]

55. I play bagpipes

:)

[NewHampshireDem]

66. Joke for you ...

Why do bagpipers march when they play?

[Vanje]

71. Oooooh Bagpipes!

My dad played in Clan McClay pipeband in Portland, OR.

I own bagpipes that I wish I could play well.
I'm thinking seriously about making a living by getting people to pay me not to play them.

[terrya]

57. I have the Rainbow Flag as my avatar.

Because, as a gay man, and as there is an assault on our rights...the right to have our loving relationships legally recognized... permanently denied us, it's important for gays and lesbians to stand together and to fight for our right to marry. The Rainbow Flag, a wonderful symbol of the gay community, is my way of showing my willigness to fight for our rights.

T

[Guaranteed]

62. Still got my Randall P.

That's my man, right there.

[New Earth]

63. mine is The Eye of Horus

I use it on almost all the boards I post on. When I first came here i used a Kerry avatar, and i still love him - but wanted something more personal. i actually kind of designed it myself - i found an image online and then did some stuff to it in photoshop to make it 3d and colorful.....it is the Ancient Egyptian symbol for the Eye of Horus, in some cases the Eye of Ra (thought I believe that is the eye facing the other direction). Anyway, it is supposed to provide order, safety, protection, and healing to the wearer or in this case, 'displayer'. I actually noticed that when I came here, someone else had a similar avatar - it was Khephra. That is why I hesitated to use it at first, b/c i didn't want to intrude or whatever.....but then i decided to use it anyway b/c it is basically a part of me. I also have a tattoo of this eye on the back of my neck (in black). (it watches my back ;) ) AND a necklace of it (it also watches my front ;) ) :hi:

[Taxloss]

65. It's a picture of my house from above

Only not very detailed.

[Seabiscuit]

67. Still can't figure it out - can you???

Who is that guy in my avatar and how did he get there????

[dweller]

68. the Wookie (our mutt)

just cause he's so funny to look at sometimes. :)

dp

[Dastard Stepchild]

70. Tom Servo...

huge MiSTie here!

[Cleita]

73. Starship Enterprise from Star Trek.

I changed it after the election because I really wanted to leave the planet.

[d_b]

74. cross-buster

logo of one my favorite bands, bad religion, and quite suiting given Bush's 'mandate'

[scarlet_owl]

75. Sacred Heart of Jesus.

I love Jesus.

[CO Liberal]

76. My Avatar Is a Picture Of Myself...

...taken the night in October of 1991 that The Princess and I met. It was a Halloween Dance, and I was dressed as Robin Hood.

[Longgrain]

77. Kick

for fun :)

[yewberry]

78. Isn't it obvious?

I'm one of THOSE people.

[ornotna]

79. Rondo Hatten

A small time actor from the mid to late 40's

He was "The Brute Man" and "The Creeper"

"Once a handsome athlete for the University of Florida, who, after being
gassed in World War I, began to suffer the horrible effects of acromegaly
(the enlargement of the bones of the face, feet and hands)."

[flamingyouth]

80. Mine is the love of my life

He's sitting upstairs watching soccer, in fact. :)

[Forkboy]

81. Godzilla,because he's just fuckin' cool!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

82. the international symbol...

the whole world unites under this logo...