Please explain your avatar and its meaning

[Hawkeye-X]

Mine is the Rockies, because obviously, I am from Colorado and support my local teams. :P

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. Mine is...well...

directly related to my signature line. :evilgrin: :hi:

[Debi]

10. Totally Pevalicious!!! n/t

[NewWaveChick1981]

46. Pevy is as pevy does.

:rofl: :P :hi: :evilgrin:

[ghostsofgiants]

2. It's a painting by Luke Chueh.

http://www.lukechueh.com

[Hawkeye-X]

4. pretty cool!

:thumbsup:

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Mine is a symbol which means it is time for hoboes to take over the government

[bertha katzenengel]

58. Go, Hoboes.

I like it.

[krispos42]

71. Oh, jeez, I forget you have an avatar!

Your Sauron White House sig pic dominates your posts!!! :-)

[LaurenG]

5. Mine is soap, we all know what soap means but I love soap

especially DU scented soap. I can rub it all over... Never mind, I just love soap and no one else has this avatar. :D

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Mine is The Beatles!

Obviously, I love The Beatles ;)

And MEGA-Thanks to Call Me Wesley for making it a working small avatar for me when I was still avatar challenged! :hug:

[Kali]

7. does it really need explaining?

Name = Avatar

[Debi]

8. I'm from Iowa and others from Iowa have the state flag or the Hawkeye symbol

:shrug: so, just for variety?

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Mine represents how much I despise fake happiness

and other forms of fakery.

[Shakespeare]

13. Poseur. n/t

[LaurenG]

17. do you hate baby Jesus too? hummmm?

Because he thinks your "shot in the head" dude is in need of healing or at least a finger to staunch the bleeding.

[mainegreen]

59. Whatever Rorschach.

:P

[MysticalChicken]

11. Mine is ... um ... Oregon...

because I ... uh ... live there. Here. Whatever.

[Maddy McCall]

12. Midna, the spritely imp, from Zelda: Twilight Princess

[MysticalChicken]

22. I love that game.

Midna is awesome. I love the music that plays after you beat the third dungeon and Zant curses you, and you have to go to the castle. "Midna's Desperate Hour" it's called.

[Maddy McCall]

27. Yeah, music and sound fx are awesome....

We haven't played it since we got Rapala Tournament Fishing, but I really want to finish Zelda...I'm really close to finishing it.

:hi:

[Shakespeare]

14. Mine's a little homage to my 'hood. n/t

[johnnie]

15. Mine is Alfred E Newman

When I was young Mad magazine helped shape my already developing strange sense of humor. You have to remember that we didn't have cable back then so finding humor outside of laughing at other people's misfortune was hard to come by.

[BarenakedLady]

16. Mine is

The original bare naked Lady, Lady Godiva. It is a play on my username, which is a play on the name of one of my favorite bands.

[Debi]

84. I'm getting dizzy w/all your playfulness! n/t

[wildhorses]

18. mine is a wildhorse cos i am the wildhorses

:kick:

[flvegan]

19. Mine is from "The Punisher" comic

and subsequent movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. My avatar is Bobby Sands....

He was an Irishman who died in prison while on hunger strike in Northern Ireland while protesting the conditions of political prisoners being treated like criminals.

I strongly admire him.

On edit: The avatar is NOT -- as has been suggested at other forums -- a photo of myself. Aside from the fact that I never post photos of myself (a personal preference), I am female and blonde.

[sg_]

118. I tried not to bite, but why anyone would want to admire a criminal

who commited crimes against the general public is beyond me.

[bettyellen]

146. he was a freedomfighter for those deprived of human rights in their own homeland.

only a criminal according to colonialists who created a police state for the natives.

[sg_]

147. ...

I was born and have lived in Northern Ireland all my life...so I do take a bit of an issue of people admiring terrorists who went around blowing up and killing people around where I live while growing up.

If I remember correctly he was part of a firebombing on a furniture store, some freedom fighting that was.

He was nothing other than a member in a group of murdering gangsters.

[bettyellen]

148. so sayeth the spawn of planters- who inherit what was stolen from their neighbors

and foolishly expect them to live the lives of second class citizens.
don't care where you are from, the occupation is ending because of people who refused to go along like sheep, including Bobby Sands.

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. I have no avatar.

It means that my donor status expired.

[AggieGal]

102. I am not a donor

and I have an avatar.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

23. Miles Davis' "Steamin'" album -- my favorite musician.

Here's a larger pic:

[SmokingJacket]

24. I like to drink wine. nt

[AlCzervik]

25. my story-

the first 2 years i was here i had this one----?

but after 2 years someone complained that it was "Offensive", it only offended certain people, everyone else got it and liked it.

so then i switched to this one here-------------? only i resized it and cropped Stuart's mom out of the pic because it was too large, so after a while a few posters were like "Who is that, he's really creepy" so then i just gave the f up and switched to Mastershake and so far no one has complained which is good because i ain't changing it.

[mainegreen]

26. It's the Kor-ah Ur-Quan from Star Control II.

That's it.

:P

[hunter]

28. Marriage is a basic human right and rainbows are pretty.

[fishwax]

29. Mine's the logo for the '08 Dem Convention in Denver

Because I was happy that Denver got the nod to host the convention and I thought the logo looked cool :)

[Hawkeye-X]

35. Yep. That's our logo

Hello! :hi:

[fishwax]

40. a cool logo for a great convention

In a great town. I hope I can make it :)

:hi:

[The Straight Story]

30. It's a pic of me

I use it to ward off demons - seems to work well on women too, they don't say much to me either :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

31. Mine is a photo of Kirby Puckett after he hit the WS Gm 6 walkoff homer

I loved Kirby Puckett, despite his flaws, and I love the Twins.

[Hawkeye-X]

36. I like him too!

I watched the Twins and thought Kirby was cool.

Unfortunately he died the day after my 30th birthday last year.

Hawkeye-X

[Crabby Appleton]

32. Vietnam Service Medal ribbon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Service_Medal

[Hawkeye-X]

37. Thanks for your service

:patriot:

[hyphenate]

108. For some reason

I thought that was directly related to a symbol of the Tet Offensive?

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Cover Art for "In the Court of the Crimson King"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Court-Crimson-King/dp/B00065MDRW

The foundation of progressive rock, by King Crimson (Robert Fripp, Greg Lake and others). It depicts the first track - "21st Century Schizoid Man".

Blood rack barbed wire
Politician's funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Death seed blind man's greed
Poets starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Seems fairly prophetic, for something written in the late 60s.

The artist, who was a computer programmer to pay the rent, died at the age of 24. This is probably his only significant well-known work. http://www.batguano.com/bgma/godber.html

[Fox Mulder]

34. Mine is the guy who should/will be President.

:)

[Hawkeye-X]

38. I agree!

:hi:

[S n o w b a l l]

39. Mine's a heart

cause I'm hoping to get mine back from the asshole who stole it.

:hi:

[ok_cpu]

41. Hot Lips Hannigan from the Flintstones

"skittle dee wha wah wah wah"

http://www.tv.com/the-flintstones/hot-lips-hannigan/episode/59909/summary.html

One of the best eps of one of the best series ever.

[fizzgig]

42. it's red from fraggle rock

i love that show

[TOhioLiberal]

43. My current Avatar:

is what I call Rev_Acts04's avvie's little brother. I change my avvie often, It's been my sons, and Keith Olbermann as well.

On edit: For reference here's R_A's Avvie:

[ruiner4u]

44. Mango..

you just cant get Mango outta your head

[achtung_circus]

45. I like pigs,

they are magical animals, both on the hoof or cut and wrapped.

[Left Is Write]

47. There is no meaning to my avatar.

[unsavedtrash]

48. The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything. n/t

[Lyric]

49. HRC Equality symbol n/t

[SeattleGirl]

50. Mine is the yin yang symbol.

Means the unity of opposites.

[Okiojira]

51. Mine - which is technically part of my sig line b/c it displays better there than as an avatar -

is a computer illustration I did years ago.

[martymar64]

52. Mr Natural - the ultimate Robert Crumb Creation

He is the crumudgeon in all of of us . . ..well, at least in me!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

53. Um...it's a crowbar

:shrug:

And it's no fun if I explain it. I want someone to guess. (It shouldn't be that hard to figure it out.)

[qnr]

54. I like inquisitiveness, and the willingness to chew things through. n/t

[LeftyMom]

55. It means I deleted mine and haven't got around to looking for something else.

:shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

56. My hometown's logo.

Huntington Beach, CA.

:hangten:

[AllegroRondo]

86. It always makes me think of HoffBrau, the brewery

very similar look.

[otherlander]

57. i likes flowerses.

it used to be John Lennon but i changeded it for spring. now it's summer. maybe i shoulds change it back to John.

[MassLiberal]

60. Abe Lincoln because I admire him

He was a strong, thoughtful president during an intensely divisive and painful time in our nation's history. Unlike other presidents we might know.

[Blue-Jay]

61. It's a squirrel.

[mwdem]

62. Pink Ribbon.

I went through breast cancer last year, and still feeling the effects.

[Richard Steele]

63. I made it from a pic of myself. I'm watching you read my posts! nm

[AwakeAtLast]

64. I live less than 30 miles from Indy

And, for right now anyway, Colts rule!!! (I have never been able to say that in 15 years and may never get to again)

[Deep13]

65. Ohio's state pennant.

It signifies that I live in Ohio.

Pretty tricky, huh?

[reyd reid reed]

66. Mine would indicate

a degree of masochism.

:P

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

67. Mine is the State of California.........because I LIVE here!

And it's also part of my username.......

:P

[NMDemDist2]

68. Mine is the New Mexico flag, to show I have moved on from AZ

explains my sig line too eh?

:hi:

[ForrestGump]

69. Elvis

He is everywhere.

[Omphaloskepsis]

70. Food not bombs..

I volunteered there for a few years.. Click on the image to learn about what they do.

[krispos42]

72. Mine's quite simple... "No Bible Thumpers"

No Bible Thumpers Emblem
$7.00
An informative white on black emblem designed to communicate with door-to-door preachers. Less effective than an unleashed doberman, but with significantly less legal liability.
Dimensions: 4" x 4" (10.2cm x 10.2cm).
Also available as a sticker.

http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/emblems.html#129

[Oeditpus Rex]

73. Fans of Monty Python's Flying Circus get it

Others can't.

[BlueCollar]

74. US Navy Squadron Patch

I was attached to VP-40 and served with some of the most outstanding individuals I have ever had the privilege of knowing.

[chknltl]

75. Why did I select IMPEACH BUSH?

uh... nah no snark here...I am a human who has human feelings. My fellow humans in the Middle East have been through HELL because of the bush puppeteers need for Iraqi oil and more bombs. I fight alongside my fellow DUers on the need to remove the crooks from power. To me no other issue is as important in that no other issue can be addressed properly when attenuated through the bush administration.

If we want to best help our brothers and sisters in the Middle East, we must first remove those who continue to cause them the most harm, the very ones who would block our aid. I'll leave this avatar up until the day bush and co leave power. Then I'll likely replace it with...oh I don't know how about dick cheney dining on a plate of kittens or better yet Paris Hilton getting out of a car in a short dress or...well come to think of it, if bushco gets impeached I'll likely replace it with the popcorn smiley.

[Callalily]

76. Mine in a Tibetan

letter of the alphabet. I truly like the design aspect.

[Orsino]

77. Toby Stephens as Orsino.

Twelfth Night is my favorite play of Shakespeare's, because I was in it in college--not as Orsino, who like me got love right the second time around.

[Ghost in the Machine]

78. I made mine myself...

It's a candle that I lit for the troops, and it will stay there until they come home...

I posted it when I made it and gave anyone who wants it permission to steal it and use it...

: right click, 'save image as' .... or you can hot link to it from my server. To do that, right click, select properties, then copy~n~paste the url....

[sakabatou]

79. It's Kenshin Himura

That is all.

[MissMillie]

80. It's a penguin... a jogging penguin

and it's the logo for inspirational speaker/runner John Bingham, who calls himself a "penguin"

http://www.johnbingham.com/

[kedrys]

81. Art Is Resistance

http://www.artisresistance.com/

Part of Nine Inch Nails' World of Year Zero:

http://yearzero.nin.com/

[mvd]

82. About mine

I put mine on after the excitement of getting a Democratic majority in Congress. And I've kept it on as we battle the Fudge and Umbridge-like Bush administration.

I'll be going through LBN and GD for a bit, and then will be off for a couple weeks at least. :hi:

[SarahB]

83. It's self explanatory. nt

[AllegroRondo]

85. the First Cavalry Division

my last unit before I left the Army. Some very nice people there.

[judaspriestess]

87. San Antonio Spurs

well cause I'm from SA and I loooooooooooooooooooooove the Spurs.

[RetroLounge]

88. Just found it doing a google search

and I like Pie...

RL

[Anarcho-Socialist]

89. Lord Nibbler

Nibbleonian Ambassador to Earth (Earth - "Home of the Pizza Bagel")

[Connonym]

90. mine is ME, ME, ME (it's all about me)

except I've since grown my hair to shoulder length

[tandot]

91. My dog Leo

:hi:

[Zavulon]

92. Montreal Expos - gone, but not forgotten.

It's like baseball isn't even a sport to me anymore.

[terrya]

93. The Rainbow Flag

It's the gay and lesbian community's quite lovely flag.

[Rhythm]

94. Mine is from Cthulhu's last political campaign

Why choose the lesser evil?

[ceile]

95. Houston Astros

Wish they were doing better this year.

[auburngrad82]

96. I don't like Pachyderms. They are big and gray and smelly

And apparently practice a lot of socially unacceptible sexual perversions.

[av8rdave]

97. Self explanatory...Go Cowboys

[GreenPartyVoter]

98. It's my Mommy, who has been gone 2 and a half years

[Rambis]

99. Scottish Family Tartan

Watson clan-

[Goblinmonger]

100. If you've seen Office Space, you'll know

If not, watch the movie for heaven's sake; it's hilarious.

[Hawkeye-X]

110. I have the Office Space DVD

I love Milton!

[Goblinmonger]

113. I was distinctly told I could keep my stapler.

I own a REAL red swingline, too.

[AggieGal]

101. I was just happy I voted

in a May election. I usually forget about those.

[Aristus]

103. Washington State flag. Known colloquially as the "dollar bill".

My state of residence.

Lovin' it! B-)

[Norwood]

104. Its my dog Rusty

The neighbor across the street from my moms got evicted and abandoned him there. We found him in their backyard and he was so skinny, we fed and took care of him. Not long after I took him in and now he's my puppy and I love the lil guy! He just got a clean bill of health and all his shots up to date on Wednesday too so yay!

[Seashell Eyes]

105. I like Futurama and I just joined

Soon, it'll be changed to my artwork.

[Ikonoklast]

106. The Gadsden Flag

One of the very first flags of the United Colonies and the Revolution, and the rattlesnake is the very symbol of American resentment of the British monarchy.







And an explicit warning to tyrants.

[hyphenate]

107. Mine currently

is of Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett) from Stargate Atlantis. Just because. :)

[northzax]

109. mine is a picture of 40s Cheesecake

but then someone complained about seeing a picture of a beautiful woman, fully clothed, in a provocative pose. so I had to edit it.

[Hawkeye-X]

111. hey northzax!

LTNS! Where can I see the original pic?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

112. Mine is Bill Evans.

'Cause he's amazing and all that and still so damn human. Three cheers for jazz!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[UrbScotty]

114. Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is a prominent American political figure.

But you wouldn't know that. ;-)

[Rising Phoenix]

115. its a phoenix to go with my new name

"...and rise from the dust like a phoenix..."

[Hawkeye-X]

116. I want more!

*KICK*

[Hawkeye-X]

117. Kicking for the morning crew..

:hi:

[Wetzelbill]

119. mine is Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer

I am originally from Montana, and Brian is pretty much the man nowadays. Also, there is a chance I may end up working for him when I graduate. So we'll see. :)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

120. Georgia O'Keefe

is my favorite artist. And the same picture is over my sofa.

[janx]

121. Mr. President, if I may be so bold as to ask...

Where in Montana did you grow up?

[Wetzelbill]

126. Cut Bank

well, actually, I lived out of town on the Blackfeet Reservation, but that's where I went to school and all.

[janx]

127. Cool. I'm going to Missoula for the book fest in September.

Can't wait! It's the prettiest state I've ever seen.

[Wetzelbill]

130. one of my writing professors at the U of AZ is going to be there

I think she's putting on a poetry workshop or something. Her name is Alison Hawthorne Deming. If you get the chance check her out, she's awesome.

[janx]

132. Will do! I have her name written down.

I've done readings there in the past, but this time I'm going to lend support to a couple of friends who are doing a panel on Shakespeare.

[Wetzelbill]

134. Do you know Kate Shanley then?

She's the head of the English Dept there. She asked me to participate last year in one of her projects, a tribute to author James Welch called "Remembering James Welch."

So what do you write then?

[janx]

135. No, I don't know Kate, but one of my friends probably does.

I write short stories. I DO remember the James Welch tributes...There was a big one in 2005 at the MT Book Fest. too. If I remember correctly, they auctioned off a pair of his boots!

[janx]

122. Hey, Hawkeye. My avatar is a FISH.

Presumably it's a rainbow trout, though it's rather small, so it's hard to tell.

[nosillies]

123. Mine is from one of my all-time favorite movies

And it's quite fitting for me, as I'm notorious for always opening my big mouth and saying whatever I want to say, damn the consequences.

I came home the other day, and my husband was threatening my son with a bar of soap for his mouth. I've never been prouder of my baby. He's following in my footsteps!

[buddhamama]

124. HRC- Human Rights Campaign

i've used it for years. i support human rights and equality for everyone. :)

[hippywife]

125. Totally obvious.

No explanation needed. :hi:

[YankeyMCC]

128. Old Iron sides nt

[Pierre.Suave]

129. well, this thread made me change mine

Mine used to be the Apple logo, but I switched it to the Minnesota Twins logo.

Yes, I am a baseball fan, and the twins are awesome.



Last week before the All Star Break, during a double header the twins combined score was 32 runs, with 20 coming in the first game.

Yes, they are awesome. And, bow before the apple awesomeness of a screen capture of my AL Central standings Widget.

[coffeenap]

131. Andy Stephenson. He was my friend and a friend to my son.

He asked never to be forgotten, and so, he won't be!:hug:

[In_The_Wind]

133. She's a happy little soul with wiggly juxtaposed toes.

Most of the time I like to feel as young and carefree as she appears to be.

[KamaAina]

136. Solidarity with New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

not only its football team; there is no New Orleans flag avatar available, and I have no place to host an uploadable one. Using the La. state flag with the name "KamaAina" would tend to cause confusion.

[Call Me Wesley]

137. Mine is Jacques Tati, French director/actor/comedian/film maker.

Wonderful movies about modern society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tati

[nuxvomica]

149. I did not recognize him

"Playtime" is easily one of the funniest, most brilliant comedies ever made.

[Call Me Wesley]

152. It literally ruined him, but it was genious.

I think in the search of perfection, he was quite worse than Chaplin. And he shot this one in 70mm and used a stereophonic sound, which most movie theaters couldn't show, so just a very few saw it. But he always played with the best technical formats available and refused to downsize it.

He built the whole set of this film and was hoping to sell it afterwards as apartments and offices but failed and it was demolished. Ironically, the place it once stood on on the suburb of Paris is now 'La Défense', a settlement of cold apartments and stores like he portrayed in his movie - merely a ghetto.

[nuxvomica]

155. That's very sad. I didn't know that.

I haven't seen the movie in years but I remember a scene with him and a chair that had me in stitches and reminded me of Chaplin being crushed in the cogs of industrial machinery. Tati's take on the human animal's discomfort with modernity was more minimalist (ironically? apprpriately?) than Chaplin's and somehow darker and, I dare say, funnier.

[Xipe Totec]

138. Los Supermachos

Old leftie comic strip from Mexico, created by Eduardo del Rio (RIUS).


http://supermachos.toliro.com/

[KG]

139. in the sig. it's a left fist, coz i'm a leftist.

the real kind: looney, fringe, ivory tower, etc. :hi:

[Dervill Crow]

140. A crow dropping a nut to break it.

Crows and other corvids are cool . . . my cell phone caws; hence, if I leave the house without grabbing my phone off the charger one of the neighborhood crows never fails to remind me to go back and get it.

[Dr. Strange]

141. Well...

Mine is the Avalanche, because obviously, I am from Colorado and support my local teams. :P

[Inchworm]

142. Avatar has an Inchworm on it

matches my name :)

:hi:

[w8liftinglady]

143. Mine is Iris Kyle-a great bodybuilder-I aspire to be like her

[KG]

145. and here all this time i was thinking that was you...

:hi:

[u4ic]

144. "Happiness" kanji

[Downtown Hound]

150. I could explain mine

But I don't want to lock your thread.

:evilgrin:

[nuxvomica]

151. Mine is Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC

He's discussed in my sig line. The most decorated hero of World War I and the man who foiled a plot by fascists to take down FDR's government. When I first started using it, there was little info on him available on the internet and now there's much more. I like to think I had some "viral" influence on that.
Butler's story is fascinating. In the 1930s, he was going around the Midwest making speeches against the corporate interests that were always fomenting war but the fascist conspirators who recruited him to be the figurehead of their coup weren't aware of how anti-war his views had become. His "War Is a Racket" is timeless, unfortunately.

[Downtown Hound]

153. That's a fascinating story

One that is often overlooked in American history books. This country owes that man a lot, not only for what he did in stopping fascism but for what he can teach us about the nature of war and the military industrial complex.

[nuxvomica]

156. I first learned about Gen. Butler by reading "The Corporation"

It's an excellent book and much better than the documentary made from it. It also clued me in on the worst Supreme Court decision in history: Santa Clara County v So. Pacific Railroad. The decision gave 14th-Amendment protections to coporations. That should also be studied in schools. It is the craziest decision the SC ever made and it was probably bought and paid for.

[musical_soul]

154. Mine is Java.

Just because I like to be in coffee shops, although I don't get to come to them much anymore.

[elshiva]

157. Buddy Christ

I love Dogma. I am an Episcopalian.