Your Avatar pic, Why?

reply to post by charles1952


LOL, fascinating......

Im a 40 year old guy who lives in his mom's basement. True story.

But to be truthful: she didn't want to leave her house, and was not able to care for herself any longer. Since the wife works night shift, and we like some level of privacy, we use the basement for our bedroom. Since my wife is a nurse, mom is given great care. Meanwhile I can manage her properties for her and keep up the bills (when I am not saving the world or assassinating a third world leader).

reply to post by Biigs


Well mine is a female Vulcan from Star Trek Online.
Which says 2 things about me...
a)I'm a female
b)I'm a Trekkie

Phantom traveller
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a)I'm a female
b)I'm a Trekkie

That seems, logical, traveller

I heard it right ear !

It could be handy ...

And left .

My avatar is often a strong male character I respect or admire. In the case of the time of this post, Harry Dresden, wizard character in The Dresden Files TV show, based on the books by Jim Butcher (a very humble guy by the way, in real life).

reply to post by Gazrok


Sorry not aware of that character.

I unfortunately mistook the actor in question as ; the father of the unrequited love interest of -
Oliver Queen. Aka arrow .

Hence my derogatory reference in the 'threadkillers' thread.

Please accept my apologies as well as some Drakka Nois - gratis ...

reply to post by jcutler12888


I have a slightly long post after this reply so I'll save space and combine them. I'm a thrifty kind of guy that way.

You can change you avvy if you like but there's something about a pretty face that just stuns me. I've sat and looked at pics like yours sometimes for way too long. If it were in real life I might be considered a stalker, but it's not so I can get away with it. I'll sit here watching the tele or whatever, taking my time reading ATS and I've found myself seriously spacing out on a pretty lady in an avater. There's the redhead druidic/Irish chick(can't remember her nick but she's around here with her and the dog in her pic) and she drives me nuts.

I'm easily stunned, so it seems, by pretty ladies.

Ok, now for the real meat.

So, since you asked.......

When I joined I had a pic of the singer, bassist and drummer from the band Flying Colors. Basically, just a cool band and a symbol of how much I love rock n roll and the influence music has had in my life, being a (failed) musician and all.

But I had to change it, you see. It just wasn't enough. Now you may have seen the slogan WWJD. Me not being a religious person, I don't subscribe to that particular slogan, mine is WWDD. As in, what would Dio do. He passed a couple of years ago and it's a small way of giving tribute to a a five foot two legend with a voice larger than life and, from all accounts, a heart even bigger. Even his so-so music is better than most bands best stuff. So, I get the love of music, it's influence on me, a musical legend, a cool slogan AND DEVIL'S HORNS!!!!!!!

HORNS UP, MOFO'S!!!!!!

Or, I could have just said it's freakin' Ronnie James Dio, DUDE!! 'Nuff said, but I'm a verbose kind of guy and really couldn't let it be that simple. Just check out my recent post in the Black Sabbath thread, verbosity at it's finest, or worst, depending on your perspective.

Recorded music is a great thing, as Dio will live on as long as the music is there. I've been listening to the dude's bands Elf, Rainbow, Sabbath, Dio and Heaven and Hell for well over thirty years now and it still excites me and the dungeons and dragons lyrical themes he is famous for spawned a whole genre of metal.

To sum up, I love pretty ladies and rock n roll. If I had a penchant for blowing things up I would be a true red-blooded American but that manly stuff was never my gig. As Dio said lo these many years ago, Long Live Rock And Roll!!!

ETA: Yo, BFFT, if you are a Texan, what's the deal with the Sooners garb? Correct me if I'm wrong but Oklahoma and Texas don't really play well together in the sandbox so it seems you have something a little odd a going on there. The explanation probably makes sense not unlike my reasons for liking teams that are nowhere close to where I grew up and became a sports fan, as my hometown is Las Vegas and there are NO pro teams here so I had to choose from elsewhere. I still support my Runnin' Rebels hoops, though. The night they won the championship in 1990 was one of my most memorable nights ever. The whole town was partying, literally. Ah, memories. Shows I'm gettin gold LOL!

reply to post by TheSpanishArcher


Thank you so much for the compliment.

Because i am a bit daft sometimes and can easily lose my temper with idiots

Because IMO this is the best tv charakter of all time

George is getting upset!

i am, what i am, where i am, always ... in this very moment ..



Deal with it



ps: love you all..



Muzz

Biigs
I see so many colorful, interesting, dark and complex profile images and avatars and i wonder what that says about the poster, compared to what they say or think.

Personally I wanted to associate a massive super power of unpredictable and unprecedented cosmic force with mans possible indirect self destruction through technology (HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey...snip

You and I are kindred spirits....

Edit: I used Hal form my first days in ATS in 2004..ever evolving...my current one was made from scratch....intended to be a close replication of the original...though through the years it's been animated and come in many different flavors.

This was one of my first when I was just learing how to use photoshop:



Need to look at it for a bit to see the animation.....

I choose mine because Pugs ROCK! I'm currently OWNED by three Pugs and I love the way this Pug is portrayed. My avatar will ALWAYS be a Pug.

I am a military contractor. Broken Lance is an old medieval term that more or less means "Veteran", a knight or men at arms who has broken their lance on the enemy, and therefore has experience. Condottiero is Italian for contractor, and is synonymous with mercenary soldier, especially in the late medieval period when the "English companies" were for hire in northern Italy.

My Avatar is a picture taken during a training exercise from this last winter. The kit in the picture is actually a bit much compared to what I usually wear. In between contracts I frequent ATS from my home in the US.

reply to post by Octave


I used that last year to make this for someone (who didn't use it). Feel free, if you would like:

bigfatfurrytexan
reply to post by Octave

 

I used that last year to make this for someone (who didn't use it). Feel free, if you would like:

edit on 20-9-2013 by bigfatfurrytexan because: (no reason given)

You made it for me...LOL!! I decided I wanted a different background and went with this instead!

reply to post by Octave


I really like it, nice collaboration guys!

I use a darken photo or photos, or a colorful "fantasy" person to reflect that I am a MYSTERIOUSTRANGER.

(And not the devil as in Mark Twains story!)

reply to post by Octave


Oh. Well in that case.....you can't use it unless you reverse it backwards and upside down.

Biigs
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I really like it, nice collaboration guys!