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Title: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: InformationGeek on August 03, 2009, 09:27:30 AM
After being here for a while, people seem to have been going through many avatars/icons.  My question is, why do you guys chose the icons that you have and what are they from?  My avatar is of Keitaro from Love Hina and I have him as my avatar because he seems strangely similiar to me in many ways.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Doggett on August 03, 2009, 09:43:54 AM
Bats are my favourite animal.  :thumbup:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Hammock Rider on August 03, 2009, 10:21:57 AM
For the moment I enjoy Seagal's cheezy goodness.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: 3mnkids on August 03, 2009, 10:24:49 AM
I will probably change mine often. Right now its christian bale from the machinist. I love christian bale and this picture always freaks me out. 


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: hellbilly on August 03, 2009, 10:36:17 AM
The one I'm using now I found some time ago on the internet. No idea who made it and what it stands for. I grabbed it cause I liked it  :smile:
I don't change Avatars very often. I've been a member at another forum for eight years and only changed avatars twice. I do have an animated bouncing pumpkin I use only in October though.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Doggett on August 03, 2009, 10:40:44 AM
I've been a member at another forum for eight years and only changed avatars twice.

He's been cheating on us with other forums ?!?!

I feel...so...used  :bluesad:



Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Jack on August 03, 2009, 12:54:19 PM
Mine is Melissa Moore from the movie Sorority House Massacre 2:  Nighty Nightmare.  It's one of my favorite slashers - though I highly suggest you be on at least your second or third beer before watching it, it loses a great deal of its charm if watched sober.  I might change it some day, I dunno.  I find it very disconcerting when people change their avatars after they've had the same one for a long time.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: hellbilly on August 03, 2009, 01:25:48 PM
I've been a member at another forum for eight years and only changed avatars twice.

He's been cheating on us with other forums ?!?!

I feel...so...used  :bluesad:



Like I'm the only person posting elsewhere  :wink:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: indianasmith on August 03, 2009, 01:44:13 PM
Mine is a mosasaur skull that I dug several years ago.  It is something unique to me, so I don't think I'll change it anytime soon.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: trekgeezer on August 03, 2009, 02:18:29 PM
Hey it's two of my favorite things,  Stooges and Trek!


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: 3mnkids on August 03, 2009, 02:30:44 PM
I've been a member at another forum for eight years and only changed avatars twice.

He's been cheating on us with other forums ?!?!

I feel...so...used  :bluesad:



Like I'm the only person posting elsewhere  :wink:

Dont tell anyone but up until a few days ago I was a moderator on another site.   :wink:  of course I dont post there now, I plan on saving all my charm for this place.    :buggedout:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Wortcov on August 03, 2009, 02:43:20 PM
the ones I use is made by Chris hallbeck (creator of the book of biff (http://www.thebookofbiff.com)) that he created one per day in [insert the month that halloween is in here] last year.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on August 03, 2009, 03:00:56 PM
MIne is Simon's Cat, from the series of web cartoons by the same name. 
http://www.simonscat.com/

My main choice is 1) interest to me and 2) fitting the size requirements, something I fail to do when I find a good avatar. 
-Ed


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Doggett on August 03, 2009, 03:05:51 PM
I've been a member at another forum for eight years and only changed avatars twice.

He's been cheating on us with other forums ?!?!

I feel...so...used  :bluesad:



Like I'm the only person posting elsewhere  :wink:

Dont tell anyone but up until a few days ago I was a moderator on another site.   :wink:  of course I dont post there now, I plan on saving all my charm for this place.    :buggedout:

One of us !
One of us !
One of us !

 :cheers:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: RCMerchant on August 03, 2009, 06:31:11 PM
I always use a pic of Bela Lugosi...though I change it like my underwaer.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Mr. DS on August 03, 2009, 08:07:58 PM
This post will be outdated within a few weeks but I'd Buy That For A Dollar is one of the greatest lines ever in any movie.   I have no clue what the show is about in Robocop but I'd watch it every week if it were. 


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: LilCerberus on August 04, 2009, 12:48:31 AM
It's from "The Phantom from Space".

Out of the few that I've tried, & many others I've considered, I still find this one to be most indicative of my character.

(Albeit, it's probably high time I did something about that caption.)


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Trevor on August 04, 2009, 01:49:53 AM
My avatar is a picture of me, taken at a film pioneer honouring ceremony in June 2008. If you can ignore the second hand underpants (which you thankfully cannot see  :buggedout:) I don't actually look too bad in a tuxedo, I think.  :smile:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Javakoala on August 04, 2009, 05:53:04 AM
My avatar is a drawing I did one day while just dorking around. I kinda liked it, so I used it.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: CheezeFlixz on August 04, 2009, 08:58:33 AM
I've always used MING, because I'll mean, evil and a ass... right RC?


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: The Burgomaster on August 04, 2009, 09:46:30 AM
Since I'm The Burgomaster, I chose Burgermeister Meisterburger (I know, I'm a Burgomaster and he's a Burgermeister, but what the heck).  I'll probably eventually change mine to a picture of one of the Burgomaster's from a Hammer film (I'd really like to use the Burgomaster from THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN).  But I need to find a good picture online first.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Saucerman on August 04, 2009, 09:55:57 AM
It's some sort of tentacle-eyeball monster that changes color.  I think it might be from a video game.  I found it as someone else's avatar on Livejournal. 


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: HappyGilmore on August 04, 2009, 09:26:04 PM
It's some sort of tentacle-eyeball monster that changes color.  I think it might be from a video game.  I found it as someone else's avatar on Livejournal. 
I believe it is Shuma-Gorath.  It's a Marvel Comics character that appears in the Dr. Strange comics.  He's also appeared in numerous video games, like Marvel Super-heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom. 


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: HappyGilmore on August 04, 2009, 09:27:28 PM
I change mine up a bit.  Originally, I think I had Jason from Jason X.  Then it was a character from Year Without a Santa Claus.

Recently, I rewatched Howard the Ducks after not having seen it for years.  Fell in love with it again.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: flackbait on August 04, 2009, 11:49:44 PM
Originally I had a head on a stake, but Since I got bored of that I switched over to a picture of a British Tommy helmet on a stake, Knowing me I'll probably be back to having a head on a stake by the end of the week.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Trevor on August 05, 2009, 04:50:25 AM
I've always used MING, because I'll mean, evil and a ass... right RC?

You didn't ask me, I know but you're neither of the two, Cheeze: just a good friend.  :smile:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Doggett on August 05, 2009, 04:52:46 AM
I've always used MING, because I'll mean, evil and a ass... right RC?

You didn't ask me, I know but you're neither of the two, Cheeze: just a good friend.  :smile:


Nah...he's definitely mean and evil  :teddyr:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Psycho Circus on August 05, 2009, 06:29:44 AM
It's some sort of tentacle-eyeball monster that changes color.  I think it might be from a video game.  I found it as someone else's avatar on Livejournal. 
I believe it is Shuma-Gorath.  It's a Marvel Comics character that appears in the Dr. Strange comics.  He's also appeared in numerous video games, like Marvel Super-heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom. 

Spot on.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Newt on August 05, 2009, 11:22:30 AM
I've always used MING, because I'll mean, evil and a ass... right RC?
You didn't ask me, I know but you're neither of the two, Cheeze: just a good friend.  :smile:
Nah...he's definitely mean and evil  :teddyr:
(I just figured he was bald.)


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 05, 2009, 07:51:10 PM
My avatar matches my name, so I'm pretty much stuck with it.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: trekgeezer on August 07, 2009, 08:08:13 AM
My avatar matches my name, so I'm pretty much stuck with it.


Leeeeeeaning! Leeeeeaning! Leeeeeaning on the Everlasting Arms!!   


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: AndyC on August 08, 2009, 05:46:03 AM
I've taken to using photos of my daughter acting like a chip off the old block. The first had her wearing a Jasonesque hockey mask at Halloween. The second and current of these is her sitting at the controls of a full-size, flyable replica of the Silver Dart, the first plane to fly in the British Commonwealth. I'm thinking of changing it to a shot of Ro wearing my welding goggles.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: WingedSerpent on August 08, 2009, 09:57:19 AM
My new one is a picture of me that's been stylized using the live trace feature on my copy of Adobe Illustrator.  The quote is from Aqua Team Hunger Force.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Mofo Rising on August 10, 2009, 06:12:40 AM
My avatar is one of the default avatars that Andrew made available. It's the Brain from Planet Arous. As far as I know, nobody else has picked it for their picture. It's a pretty good avatar for me; I'm almost exclusively intellect at the best of times (with a slightly sinister twinge).

By now, I can't picture this page without seeing that brain picture in the corner.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Newt on August 10, 2009, 06:57:33 AM
By now, I can't picture this page without seeing that brain picture in the corner.
Add to that (for me): and thinking of one funky-looking tabby that I would not want to mess with.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Sister Grace on August 10, 2009, 10:56:45 AM
I always use a pic of Bela Lugosi...though I change it like my underwaer.

yeah, i need to get in touch with you. I'm going to get a tatt of his portrait soon, but am looking for some better pics than what i have.

anyways, my icon is me. i started using it awhile back when i kept getting asked what i look like in other forums. sometimes i change back and forth to a pic of a girl with her head in the oven. i guess it depends on how my personality is going at the moment.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Joe the Destroyer on August 10, 2009, 02:26:17 PM
Mine is pretty random, but seems to run with either pictures of myself or b-movie monsters.  Ones I've used:

Destoroyah with my face superimposed over his
My own drunken mug sitting in a bar
Plesiosaur throwing up from Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
South Park-ized version of myself
Snowbeast (current)


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on August 10, 2009, 03:37:39 PM
My Avatar is Death from the "Sandman" comics by Neil Gaiman. I always like the idea of Death being a cute goth girl with a postive outlook on life.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: meQal on August 10, 2009, 09:59:49 PM
The avatar I am currently using as of this posting is one I found on the web that made me laugh. I always felt like it was a pic of some dude walking into a bathroom and discovering that someone had not flushed. It was not until I had started using it that someone asked where I got it and another member here pointed out it is from the Italian version of Spiderman.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: venomx on August 10, 2009, 10:05:32 PM
OH OK! Thats where thats guy from LOL ... Thanks for the info meQal. :thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHhXukovMU


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Paquita on August 11, 2009, 07:56:18 AM
Oh my gosh I love Italian Spiderman so much I think my butt's going to explode!!

My avatar is me doin' what I do.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: indianasmith on August 11, 2009, 09:27:07 AM
That picture is why we all like you so much, Paquita!


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: InformationGeek on August 11, 2009, 10:43:19 AM
In the past, my avatars have been:
+ The sign to Nilbog.
+ A picture of a Shrieker from Tremors 2 (Andrew picked my review, so I used an avatar of the movie).
+ Pete from Eight Legged Freaks shooting a spider (Same thing like the Shrieker)
+ Itchy from Dick Tracey (I enjoyed the movie so much that I used one of my favorite villian icons)


Out of curiousity, does anyone know what is up with Andrew's avatar?  I am curious at what it is.  It was one of the reasons I started the Avatar Topic.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Psycho Circus on August 11, 2009, 11:50:55 AM
Oh my gosh I love Italian Spiderman so much I think my butt's going to explode!!

My god, I am so jealous of your hubby.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: WilliamWeird1313 on August 11, 2009, 01:32:45 PM



Me and some friends were driving around one night, bored, just goofing off, and somehow we worked ourselves into photo-taking frenzy, and we just all over the place to different stores taking pictures of ourselves doing stupid stuff. Seems that happens quite often actually. Anyway, we were driving past the local mall, which used to have a small, 4-screen multiplex inside. The place went out of business years ago, but it was such a formative part of my childhood (I practically grew up in that theater) that I decided I wanted to get a picture with the sign, which is still up to this day... for no good reason. Anyway, we took the picture, and it's since become a picture I've kind of fallen in love with. Me and the big ol' "CINEMA" sign with the run-down, cracked old letters and everything. To me, it just kind of sums me up (at least, I think it does)... hence, my avatar.



Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Pilgermann on August 11, 2009, 01:39:23 PM
Mine is a picture I took of my ceramic rabbit with a skeleton finger puppet on its head.  Previously I was using an Edward Gorey character called Figbash, and I think I had an R-Type one before that.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Paquita on August 11, 2009, 04:26:52 PM
That picture is why we all like you so much, Paquita!
Oh my gosh I love Italian Spiderman so much I think my butt's going to explode!!

My god, I am so jealous of your hubby.

Aw thanks!  And this isn't even the "say something nice about the person who just posted" thread!


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Dennis on August 11, 2009, 08:59:26 PM
The picture is one of my favorite "B" movie characters, originally it was still, then Andrew was kind enough to furnish an animated version of the big guy so now I use that. The words are from one of my favorite scenes in "Pulp Fiction".


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Andrew on August 11, 2009, 09:34:50 PM
The best *parties* are in the *middle*. Can you *smell* my "level* now?  I am a *happy camper*!

Out of curiousity, does anyone know what is up with Andrew's avatar?  I am curious at what it is.  It was one of the reasons I started the Avatar Topic.


It's an Orz from "Star Control II," which are probably the most confusing beings in the universe.  If you ever talk to an Orz, just remember that you don't want to be *dancing* with them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCr9VdfMghM


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Sleepyskull on August 17, 2009, 09:37:36 AM
I can't remember why this appealed to me but my avatar is the "Flash Gordon" logo inside the Obama campaign symbol. I also changed the colors on the campaign symbol. I was probably just bored.


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: SkullBat308 on August 20, 2009, 10:50:43 AM
Mine is Death from Dellamorte Dellamore, thought it was cool?


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Nukie 2 on August 21, 2009, 04:00:12 PM
Mines a drawing from the comic "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac"-- this was a poster on Squee's bedroom wall!


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: El Misfit on August 22, 2009, 12:18:27 PM
Harryhaussen Rules! :thumbup: :teddyr:


Title: Re: Your Profile Avatars
Post by: Rev. Powell on August 22, 2009, 08:40:18 PM
Mine is Death from Dellamorte Dellamore, thought it was cool?

You were correct!  :thumbup: