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#1 The Apple Cøre

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 04:08 PM

Many of our avatars come from very obvious places (mine, for instance. For the uninitiated, you get this when your Mac can't find a boot disk). I'm curious to know where the more obscure come from. I know that some of them were made by you, and some are from distant corners of the Internet. I've seen one that came from a blackbox (X11 windowmanager) theme, to name the most obscure I've managed to identify.

Old avatars welcome as well, if you can find them and put them up.

Also, I know this is ATT... but please try not to drag it off topic until post 50 or so...

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#2 The Journalist

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 04:29 PM

Penguin. Fairly self explainitory

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#3 TheLoser

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 04:50 PM

http://www.knoxskorner.com/includes/movies...ogiemonster.php
Boogie monster

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#4 zurdo

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 04:53 PM

An image showing the many ways in which Dick Cheney can kill you.

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#5 Mispeled

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 05:06 PM

Mine comes from Weird Al Yankovic's movie UHF, specifically the video for "Beverly Hills".

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=KPObq_EvIg8

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#6 LNSU

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 05:09 PM

Mine is a shot i took out of an airplane while flying to Jackson Hole, WY for a ski trip. Its one of the foothills of the rocky mountains.

Here is the fullsize, unedited picture my avatar was taken from (I cropped and resized)

Posted Image

This post has been edited by LiAnNaSu: 17 June 2006 - 05:14 PM

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#7 Rickton

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 06:29 PM

Mine (and the title that goes with it) is from Sam & Max Hit the Road.

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#8 Percy

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 08:25 PM

Mine is that sticker you got on your Marathon 1 box. Seeing I don't have mine, I got this one on the internet. http://www.eyrie.org...ianne/marathon/ I seem to remember mine was silver.

Ahhhhhh- http://marathon.bung...boxsticker.html

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#9 ankhwatcher

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 08:59 PM

Mine is baised on a the 2001: A Space Oddessy poster i have on my wall and a play on my name.
Ankh-watcher.
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#10 Anaxagoras

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 10:39 PM

I stole mine from one of the standard galleries of EV-Nova.net. I had a previous avatar which was a golden Marathon symbol, though, which I made entirely from scratch. I'm also thinking of shooting a picture of this animal skull I have and using that, too.

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#11 Pufer

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Posted 17 June 2006 - 11:21 PM

I found mine in an existential void. It was on a Tuesday afternoon as I recall.

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#12 Hamster

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 06:16 AM

Retarded Animal Babies.

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#13 Percy

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 07:25 AM

Anaxagoras, on Jun 17 2006, 11:39 PM, said:

I had a previous avatar which was a golden Marathon symbol, though, which I made entirely from scratch.

Ahhh- So that is why your line under your avatar had been "Durandal."

Hamster, on Jun 18 2006, 07:16 AM, said:

Retarded Animal Babies.

A is for.... nevermind.

My old avatar is the classic Marathon trilogy BoB. It was all three BoBs morphed into one. It is on the trilogy release page.

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#14 Anaxagoras

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 09:15 AM

Percinator, on Jun 18 2006, 08:25 AM, said:

Ahhh- So that is why your line under your avatar had been "Durandal."

I honestly can't remember if my member title had been Durandal when I changed my avatar, or if I changed it later on. I think it's the latter, but I'm not completely sure. I mean... I've had this avatar for about a year and a half.

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#15 moonunit4eva

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 01:09 PM

Umm.. it's me. How dull. I should change it.

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#16 Zortrium

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 02:06 PM

Yearbook photo. Duh.

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#17 Solid

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 07:11 PM

A rather clever drawing by my friend illustrating an obscure inside joke concocted over cafeteria taco's in our 11th grade year.

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#18 Boris Yetskins

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 08:06 PM

I found mine from the family guy homepage. May Peter Griffin live in our hearts forever.

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#19 Avatara

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 08:12 PM

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#20 zurdo

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 10:32 PM

An actual example of a post from WAF.

#21 JoeBob

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 10:42 PM

Mine's a silhouette of Gadget from Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers. The only other avatar I've had was Roger Dean's old Yes logo.

I'm contemplating changing it, but I'm not sure.

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