Your Avatar pic, Why?

i chose mine because i am always in 2 minds about something

Me, I always use an animated cat pic for my avatar because cats are the coolest animals in the universe and deserve to be worshiped.






I like the animated pics because non-moving pics are kinda boring OMHO and I always try to find a humerous one to show the world that I don't take it too seriously.

Because I beleive in both of them and would lay my life down for them. Plus i aint into the jazzyed up animated, way out there avatars.

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I still like your previous Daryl Dixon avatar better, bring it back!

I picked mine because I really enjoy observing violent weather.

Wow - there are a lot of good stories here to go along with many great avatars. As for me, starting with the screen name Tallcool1 - the obvious is that I am tall at 6'6". Also I am quite fond of beer (pour yourself a tall cool one), especially thick, dark, chewy beers. But it was originally the song by Robert Plant in the late 80's called "Tall Cool One" that stuck with me - I just changed the word "one" with the number "1". So I started using Tallcool1 fairly regularly online and for video games and stuff like that. When I finally signed up here at ATS after a long lurking period, it was only natural to use the same name.

As for my avatar, I have also used several different ones. Sometimes they meant something, sometimes I thought they were just cool, most of the time I just get bored with the same avatar and change it. My current avatar is from when we went shopping one year for a Halloween costume for my youngest daughter at one of those Halloween superstore things and we came across these fairly realistic fangs called "Scarecrow fangs" made by vampfangs.com www.vampfangs.com... . After fitting mine, my daughter took my picture and I darkened it a bit so I can have a little bit of anonymity and there I am.

Anyone who has stood in the middle of neolithic monuments at any time but particularly at sunset will understand my obsession and why I have these pictures as my avatar. The energy and emotion inside, imagining what they were used for, their true secrets and what has happened there over the years. I always have pictures of my favourite monuments around.

Plus they look awesome!

Many reasons:

1. I absolutely love the mythological character Guinevere (not to mention Keira Knightley's performance of her in the movie which I also love King Arthur)

2. I relate it to my 'inner' self/spirit and personality

3. I relate it to my ancestry

I love sea shells and all that they have represented throughout history...The symbolic swirl of DNA, Alchemists were known to carry a sea shell in their pocket to signify that they were on a journey of enlightenment, seashells have been used as a form of currency...etc.....my first name is Rochelle but my friends and family have always called me Shelly or Shells...But I do switch up my avatar from time to time...

It's one of my acrylic pieces entitled "Take Me to Your Mini Fridge."

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Your freaking awesome because you made me laugh...Thanks I needed that...

My avatar? It's many things. You could say it means achievement unlocked. But it's really much more. If you're interested look at the image from all 4 points of the compass and see what you can see.

BTW. It's a real picture of the supernatural.

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S&F I have so enjoyed reading the stories everyone has posted!!!

OK first my username: Martin75 I never use my name on-line so I used very good friends name instead and I was born in 75, so Martin75

My avatar I am so proud of. I gave BBFT two pictures. I picture of my car, a 78 TransAm (that is actually my car in my avatar-I am restoring it) and a picture of the "adoption triangle" . He then worked his magic and created an avatar that suits me perfectly.

It's a user name from playing war games, that's all.

Mine represents what I am - an old biker. I think its funny because the bike has the quarter slot to make it go.

The Leader of Three World is because I ride a trike. She holds 5 cases and ice.

to remind me of the fleeting nature of life and also that yngwei "dead" ohlin was frecken awesome, like way frecken awesome. kurt cobain was all martyred like rock and roll jesus and ohlin was a cold soul who could have launched his music into a really awesome direction but splintered the door for the rest of real heavy metal to siege the industry leaving no survivors. also his suicide made a better album cover whilst kurt cobain probably looked like a ran over beagle

What inspiring stories. If I recall correctly, my mini-avatar says "just a guy." My name is Charles, I was born in 1952, and FortAnthem told me my old avatar was no good and I had to use the one they made for me, so I did.

As you can tell, I'm a domineering, wildly creative, dramatic personality.

Enjoying the revelations here. My avatar is my dog Zen at Opal Creek, Or. I am a happy hermit and she is my companion, accompanying me on all my adventures, so I guess the display is a proud papa kind a thing, and the look is one of curiosity, or perhaps of speculative optimism.

Peace.
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charles1952
What inspiring stories. If I recall correctly, my mini-avatar says "just a guy." My name is Charles, I was born in 1952, and FortAnthem told me my old avatar was no good and I had to use the one they made for me, so I did.

As you can tell, I'm a domineering, wildly creative, dramatic personality.

Charles, what country are you from?

You are the ATSer I would most like to share a beer with.

Mine is pretty self explanatory. I love the hitchhikers guide and the whole idea of it.

“Listen. It’s a tough universe. There’s all sorts of people and things trying to do you, kill you, rip you off, everything. If you’re going to survive out there, you’ve really got to know where your towel is”.

"Don't Panic!"

I choose mine because my dog goes everywhere with me and has done the past ten years. Had him since he was only six weeks old. A big part of our family and always has been.

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Dear bigfatfurrytexan,

Wow! That has to be in the top three compliments I've received. I'm still taken aback. (I notice they don't have blushing icons for us.) I'm normally a wordy person, but you've made me so giddy, I'm going to gush all over the place, more voluminously than normally.

All of my grandparents moved to Canada from Europe. My parents were born and married in Canada, then moved to the US about 70 years ago. To avoid possible discrimination my father changed his last name to what I was born with.

They moved into their home in the '40s, and since then a family member has lived in it. The phone number is the same they were first issued.

From '71-'72 I was in college at the U of Houston. I had "run away from home" with a girl I was interested in. She joined me in Houston a few weeks after I had arrived. Within six weeks she had run off with a cowboy. You Texans, you're all a bunch of silver-tongued devils.

I left Houston after a woman drove over a motorcycle while I was on it. I was sent helmet first into a parked Cadillac. The last thing I remember before losing consciousness was a man running out of the restaurant and yelling at me for putting a dent in his door. It's probably all of those Texas experiences which have given me the irresistible charm I now have.

Then some time in the military, Armor mostly, including a stint with the Army Security Agency (A military branch of NSA), three degrees, working in federal law enforcement, teaching college, working as a lawyer, and some other stuff.

There, I gave you all that and you didn't even have to buy me a beer. But, if I ever get close to Texas, I'll let you know. Now you're a fascinating person, me, I'm just a guy.

With respect,
Charles1952