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Title: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Texasmame on October 06, 2006, 02:39:34 pm
Some pretty cool ones on this site - I like the "Office Guy" one the best.

Mine?  Jaws is my favorite flick and Shaw really nailed the Quint character better than any actor I've ever seen in any role!  Can't imagine Quint any other way!  That "Indianapolis" speech - amazing!   :notworthy:

Of course, maybe I'll change it in the future and this post won't make any sense.   ::)

Yours?

John in TX
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Harry Potter on October 06, 2006, 03:16:44 pm
I drives teh wimmins wild.  :dunno
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Stingray on October 06, 2006, 03:34:21 pm
They're pachinko balls. Plus they have "PP" on them, which is funny on a couple different levels.

-S
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Harry Potter on October 06, 2006, 03:35:24 pm
-S likes golden showers.  ;)
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on October 06, 2006, 03:35:43 pm
Logo from my favorite band. Gogol Bordello.
That star is going to smack ya' right between the eyes!


mrC
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: shardian on October 06, 2006, 03:54:44 pm
Well, I ended up with the shardian name for the online world. It was a name I made up back when Diablo 1 was popular. It stuck, so I decided to include the picture of the warrior character from that game once I got involved in the forum life.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: missioncontrol on October 06, 2006, 04:28:42 pm
My Avatar - why not?
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Texasmame on October 06, 2006, 06:17:37 pm
Well, I ended up with the shardian name for the online world. It was a name I made up back when Diablo 1 was popular. It stuck, so I decided to include the picture of the warrior character from that game once I got involved in the forum life.

Always thought that was The Undertaker.    ???
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: crashwg on October 06, 2006, 07:47:16 pm
Homestar = Cool

DDR = Coll

Therefor

Homestar + DDR = Uber-Cool
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Daniel270 on October 06, 2006, 08:01:25 pm
I've had a few since I've signed on that first time... two were variations of Gizmo from Gremlins... but this one's ME (in a South Park sorta way)......
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: monkeybomb on October 06, 2006, 09:26:24 pm
I forget what I used to have, but at one point someone posted this for me almost how it is now. Then someone else  (Mr. C?) finished it.  I think it fits.  Thanks guys!
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: SirPeale on October 07, 2006, 10:42:50 am
I lieky teh Michelle.  She deh hawt.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: pointdablame on October 07, 2006, 11:43:57 am
I love the movie Office Space and I constantly think of beating the crap out of printers.   :dunno
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: bleemus on October 07, 2006, 10:07:12 pm
I always thought the shaking butt sequence in pengo was funny, and I really like the game.  So I put together this from MAME screenshots.  I made a .gif of Ms. Pac Man dying too, not sure if I'll ever use it though.

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=51525.0;attach=58922;image)
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Daniel270 on October 07, 2006, 10:35:21 pm
I love the movie Office Space and I constantly think of beating the crap out of printers.   :dunno

Don't know why, but for some reason, I was thinking it was Steven Webber as Jack Torrance in "The Shining" remake....
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Harry Potter on October 08, 2006, 08:22:57 am
I love the movie Office Space and I constantly think of beating the crap out of printers.   :dunno

 :o
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: pointdablame on October 08, 2006, 12:51:41 pm
I love the movie Office Space and I constantly think of beating the crap out of printers.   :dunno

 :o

Yeah, that's right Print Shop boy.  You better hope I never come visit you at work.  >:D
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Q*Bert_OP on October 08, 2006, 10:30:51 pm
Well...y'all probably can't read what the Area 51 Site 4 PCB says...but here goes:

"This has to be about a 9 on my wierd-$hit-o-meter"
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: HaRuMaN on October 09, 2006, 06:03:44 am
computer screens taste good...
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Bones on October 09, 2006, 08:03:14 am
Because I like pretty girls.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Texasmame on October 09, 2006, 08:08:23 am
Gotta agree with your assessment of your avatar there.  BTW, who is she - "somebody" or just a random girl?
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Bones on October 09, 2006, 08:21:37 am
None of your business. She is mine.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: _) (V) (-) on October 09, 2006, 12:26:38 pm
Mine just seems 'comfortable'  like my own mini vacation or something

It's from ez rider in case anyone wondered.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: TadChower on October 09, 2006, 12:32:18 pm
I'm pretty new here , but I like the little South Park avatars. I made one the best I could of my own likeness.  :cheers:

I earned the nickname from my co-workers. One morning I overheard someone say, "Well , Well , Well , Here comes Mr. Sunshine!"  :timebomb:

Since then , the name has stuck to me like Gorilla Glue  :laugh2:

Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Harry Potter on October 09, 2006, 01:08:07 pm
I love the movie Office Space and I constantly think of beating the crap out of printers.   :dunno

 :o

Yeah, that's right Print Shop boy.  You better hope I never come visit you at work.  >:D
Go ahead. You can start with the guillotine.  ;D
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: pointdablame on October 09, 2006, 01:15:55 pm
I love the movie Office Space and I constantly think of beating the crap out of printers.   :dunno

 :o

Yeah, that's right Print Shop boy.  You better hope I never come visit you at work.  >:D
Go ahead. You can start with the guillotine.  ;D


 :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

I'm like a hitman... but much much geekier.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Vigo on October 09, 2006, 01:44:42 pm
Mine is from my flagship arcade machine Trog (like pacman, only more actionesque)

Also, "Dog's don't know its not bacon" Beggin' Strip commmercials somehow stuck with me...so I combined it with Trog. Viola.

My name vigo after the bad guy from Ghostbusters 2, so it is unrelated to my avatar
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: clanggedin on October 09, 2006, 02:43:05 pm
I had to wait 10 years after "Cartoon Planet" came out to where I could buy my own officially licenced Space Ghost costume. I had to have one because of the guy dancing at the beginning of the show in one, when it was a one hour show. That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

It's what I am every year for halloween until I can afford a cooler costume, like a Stormtrooper.

I look pretty stoopid in the costume, so I decided to share it with others here.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Nannuu on October 09, 2006, 04:54:13 pm
Was planning on building a Simpsons Supercade but have since talked myself out of it.  The Space Invaders Homer has stuck as I'm too lazy to make something else.   :dunno
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: _) (V) (-) on October 10, 2006, 03:25:44 pm
Hey Clanggedin,
This is my first year with one, since I have a goatee, I figured to be Chad Ghoastal, the evil twin.  Wife really loves the cape for some reason but declined the opertunity for sporting the Wonder Woman getup. So far I've managed to not get the cape caught in the mower while cuttin the lawn but them grass stains are a b1tch!
Any pointers on avoiding mishaps while in everyday use?
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Dustin Mustangs on October 10, 2006, 03:33:35 pm
What a great thread!  Hearing everyones (extremely different) reasoning is quite entertaining.

Mine is a somewhat abstract photo of one of my other hobbies.  You think arcade cabinets can take up a lot of your time or suck your bank account dry in a hurry?  Ha! 

Anyone care to guess what this is in mine??

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Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Lewis Black on October 10, 2006, 03:53:05 pm
I can't remember what mine signifies.  hmpf
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Lutus on October 10, 2006, 07:37:53 pm
Because the Power Glove is so Bad!
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Santoro on October 10, 2006, 09:54:50 pm
The south park guy resembles me when I let my hair grow out, and them's the cabs I built. 

Yeap, I'm a bit boring.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: GGKoul on October 11, 2006, 09:07:25 am
Let me post to see my Avatar.. Hold on...
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: GGKoul on October 11, 2006, 09:08:05 am
Awhile part we crazy BYOAC'ers were South Parking each other...  :lame:
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: RayB on October 11, 2006, 11:14:37 am
Albert.  A fat canary character I came up with in High school.

Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Chris on October 11, 2006, 11:36:12 am
Mine's a screenshot of the only thing I'm known around here for :P
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: ChadTower on October 16, 2006, 11:08:06 am

Made mine myself in a fit of boredom years ago.
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: shmokes on October 16, 2006, 11:55:58 am
Mine is in the list of premade Avatars.  I chose it when I signed up for BYOAC.  I've had it so long I'm afraid nobody will recognize me if I change it  ;D
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: lordtodd75 on October 16, 2006, 12:31:01 pm
Cuz Sonny Chiba is awesome. "I especially hate punks!" -The Street Fighter
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: gavkiwi on October 16, 2006, 01:22:26 pm
< 350Z, had been drooling over one for almost 4 years  :hissy:, finally got one a couple of months back  :cheers:, excpet mine is Black!
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: diverdown on October 17, 2006, 12:52:48 am
Its what i do to get cash to give to my wife so she can spend it
Title: Re: Your Avatar - Why?
Post by: Brumaz on October 17, 2006, 04:06:22 am
mines from one of my favourite games growing up  ;D





Love the power glove av! I used to have one of those!