Your Avatar: explainations requested

[cornemuse]

Where in your twisted (some of you, anyway) minds, did you come up with your avatars?
Or your names, for that matter, while you're at it.

Cornemuse = I also distill. (figure that one out)

My 'skull' = from 'Silence of the Lambs' poster

[DB83]

For anyone who followed the BBC tv series 'Blackadder goes forth', my avatar needs no explanation.

But for those who did not, the series was set in WW1 and Capt. Blackadder did everything possible to ensure he did not go 'over the top' (but everyone one did in the last scene of the last episode). Here was not one of Baldrick's cunning plans and he tried to fein madness with a knitting needle in each nostril and a knotted hankerchief.

I do not have to fein it since I am SRB. The first part of the screen-name are my first-last real initials (or Dead Boring or Deaf Blind just take your choice) plus the dos 8.3 filename restriction (not as some people think my age )

Now back to my cave.

[Mephesto]

Tychus Findlay, imprisoned for life but you don't see any bars or a confinement room. In the far future, you don't go to prison, you get arrested, briefly imprisoned and then you take your prison with you.

[bigass]

Mine's a picture of me.

The name is a truncated version of "bigasssuperstar" ... not sure why I shortened it years ago when I signed up. That name began as a ... well, I think it mocked my humility or something. Bigasssuperstar.com has been my blog home since 2005.

[Mephesto]

You look pretty fat so your name suits you I think.

[El Heggunte]

Name:

"El Heggunte" was the stupid giant robot built by the character Nanvel Candlestick in the anime "Burn-Up W",

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-Up_W

http://www.google.com/images?complete=0&safe=off&hl=en&biw=&bih=&q=%22nanvel+candlesti...g&ved=0CBsQsAQ

Avatar:

a very-personal and cryptic homage to Kisarah Westfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoGeo_Battle_Coliseum

«Okay, who is the best? I am the best.»

[Noahtuck]

If I told you, I would have to kill you......

LOL!!

[VideoChunkster]

You look pretty fat so your name suits you I think.

dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn

[Baldrick]

I have a cunning plan....

[gadgetguy]

At the time I was always showing up to work with some new electronic device and one of my coworkers referred to me as the gadget guy, so I went with it.
My avatar is The Steel Duck! The spaceship from the comic Melonpool - http://www.melonpool.com/
Steve Troop, the creator of Melonpool and an all around great guy, made my avatar especially for me.

[bigass]

You look pretty fat so your name suits you I think.

This is also true.

[ranchhand]

Mine is a nostalgic rememberance of the happiest days of my life growing up on a cattle ranch in North Central Idaho, Bitterroot mountains.

[redwudz]

My user name was the only alternative spelling available for 'redwoods', a old user name. The county where I worked was known as 'The home of the redwoods'.
My avatar reminded me of an old cat my neighbor fed on her back porch.

[usually_quiet]

I had just suffered back-to-back bouts with laryngitis when I joined. I could barely speak. My voice never did come back all the way.

I haven't found an avatar that I like well enough to use.

[LigH.de]

My current avatar is my second... the first was a kind of Manga drawing of a guy with glasses who ... somehow ... looks like I feel myself and would like to be seen; smart, kind, and trustworthy, somehow.

But the resolution was too low. And I never found its original to make a higher resolution version. So I looked around for a photo of a similar looking person I could alter a bit. And I suddenly found one of Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks). Of course, he deserved a style like sandstone engraving.

The nickname descends from the times of telephone mailboxes (BBS), before the WWW became usual.

[El Heggunte]

^ Thanks for chiming in, LigH.

I'm pretty sure yoda313 will like to know that you are a StarGate fanboy

[Noahtuck]

I am an SG fanboy!!!

I am currently watching the 7th season, started at 1 and will go through them all, again for the 1000th time!!

LOL!!

[VideoChunkster]

I am an SG fanboy!!!

I am currently watching the 7th season, started at 1 and will go through them all, again for the 1000th time!!

LOL!!

The SG Show. 12-year-old Sam and his dad, Steve, talk about books, fun things for families to do together, and, well, life... really.

[p_l]

When I first joined, my youngest daughter was four years old and a big Hello Kitty fan. Every time I posted and she was near the computer, she got to see her skipping.

A few years ago on this forum, I tried to switch for this avatar , made from the German band Kraftwerk's Die Roboter, but public outcry from VCDHelp.com regulars cajoled me into going back to my original avatar by popular demand.

Also, I still think animated GIFs are one of the greatest technological innovations the internet has ever bestowed upon mankind.

[Dv8ted2]

I have always been a Green Lantern fan.

[Noahtuck]

I am an SG fanboy!!!

I am currently watching the 7th season, started at 1 and will go through them all, again for the 1000th time!!

LOL!!

The SG Show. 12-year-old Sam and his dad, Steve, talk about books, fun things for families to do together, and, well, life... really.

Okay, let me be more specific....

SG-1
Stargate

LOL!!

[VideoChunkster]

I am an SG fanboy!!!

I am currently watching the 7th season, started at 1 and will go through them all, again for the 1000th time!!

LOL!!

The SG Show. 12-year-old Sam and his dad, Steve, talk about books, fun things for families to do together, and, well, life... really.

Okay, let me be more specific....

SG-1
Stargate

LOL!!

pretty good show, not sure what season i left off with but the movie was pretty awesome, good ol kurt russell

[johns0]

I was investigating a weird puppet show when....

[yoda313]

mines self explanatory - the mystery science theater 3000 planet logo.

[tgpo]

It's an illustration of my face.

[El Heggunte]

mines self explanatory - the mystery science theater 3000 planet logo.

I remember very well, you were a Ninja Turtle sometime before 2009

[VideoChunkster]

I don't have an avatar, so gorgeous if you saw my face you would die, male medusa

[El Heggunte]

^ There is only one "male medusa" --- Guy Hamdon, a.k.a. SheZow

[VideoChunkster]

lol

[LigH.de]

Also, I still think animated GIFs are one of the greatest technological innovations the internet has ever bestowed upon mankind.

There are also animated PNGs (APNG or MNG), which are not limited to max. 255 color palettes; but they are still not well supported. But they are widely used, e.g. in japanese Manga games for adults...

@ p_l: Ich bin der Musikant mit Taschenrechner in der Hand