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Your Avatar - Why?
« 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.   ::)

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2006, 03:16:44 pm »
I drives teh wimmins wild.  :dunno
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2006, 03:35:24 pm »
-S likes golden showers.  ;)
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2006, 03:35:43 pm »
Logo from my favorite band. Gogol Bordello.
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2006, 04:28:42 pm »
My Avatar - why not?

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #7 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.    ???

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2006, 07:47:16 pm »
Homestar = Cool

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #9 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)......
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #10 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!

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2006, 10:42:50 am »
I lieky teh Michelle.  She deh hawt.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #12 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
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #13 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.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #14 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....
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #15 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

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #16 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

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #17 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:

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2006, 06:03:44 am »
computer screens taste good...

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2006, 08:03:14 am »
Because I like pretty girls.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #20 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?

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #21 on: October 09, 2006, 08:21:37 am »
None of your business. She is mine.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #22 on: October 09, 2006, 12:26:38 pm »
Mine just seems 'comfortable'  like my own mini vacation or something

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #23 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:


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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #24 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

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #25 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

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Yeah, that's right Print Shop boy.  You better hope I never come visit you at work.  >:D
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #26 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

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« Reply #27 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.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #28 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
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« Reply #29 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!
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #30 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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« Reply #31 on: October 10, 2006, 03:53:05 pm »
I can't remember what mine signifies.  hmpf

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« Reply #32 on: October 10, 2006, 07:37:53 pm »
Because the Power Glove is so Bad!
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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #33 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.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #34 on: October 11, 2006, 09:07:25 am »
Let me post to see my Avatar.. Hold on...

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #35 on: October 11, 2006, 09:08:05 am »
Awhile part we crazy BYOAC'ers were South Parking each other...  :lame:

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #36 on: October 11, 2006, 11:14:37 am »
Albert.  A fat canary character I came up with in High school.

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Re: Your Avatar - Why?
« Reply #37 on: October 11, 2006, 11:36:12 am »
Mine's a screenshot of the only thing I'm known around here for :P
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« Reply #38 on: October 16, 2006, 11:08:06 am »

Made mine myself in a fit of boredom years ago.

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« Reply #39 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
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