So what WOULD your avatar be if this site allowed?
 

Maybe since we can't use them, it would be instructive to have a thread to post --imaginary-- avatars. ;)

Here's the one I usually use, big deal:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...sunsetmtn2.jpg

Why would it be instructive?

because avatars give an additional glimpse into the interests and personalities of the owner

Rubbish, it's only what they want to make people think. What they post tells the real story.

True. Otherwise, what would the pic I would use in my avatar, the pic on my public profile, say about me? That I want to be a Pez dispenser? That I am a duck, of the daffy order?

The profile pic suffices. ;)

sure, but you can't divorce what people want to present the world from their personality.

If you're not interested, don't post. If you want to argue about it, how about the why no avatars thread. I'm curious to see what people might choose.

yeek. okay, I'd vote no on that one. Besides, it's too big! :)

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I'm just glad HM decided not to show us the rest of the pic.

I haven't said too much about the avatar question. But I'm glad we don't use them. I used to participate in another forum (sports related) and the avatars and HTML sig lines are just visually exhausting - blinking, scrolling, animated things that just tax the eyes and brain.

I see where Cloud picked a somewhat serene and not a "look at Meeeee" avatar which is fine and all but since we don't have an approval committee anything goes. As I think back over the past few years of the Cellar, I have waking nightmares just thinking about what some people would have chosen.

On a related note, I drive around and can't help but notice what some people do with personalize license plates and wonder what on earth they were thinking.

There's a sig line that can be used to say something about yourself and I think quite a few people use it very effectively.

But that's just my opinion and differing ones count just as much.

I understand you're not the first to say that about HM's cock.

Trivia question: What argument was settled by this picture? Glatt you are disqualified (assuming you know the answer).

it's okay that you guys don't want to use avatars--I just wanted a fun thread with a little self-expression, 'kay? Don't make it into more than it is.

The chicken, however, is another matter altogether.

:D

Just kidding HM!!

I do know the answer. Mostly I'm impressed with the photographer for figuring out how to take this picture. Real creative thinking from that guy. Whoever he was.

Yes, yes. I know too, but it seems to soon in the thread to answer.
My Daddy told us the story when he hand-made a zoetrope for us. Bless him, I think we were more interested in Swing-Ball that year.

I'm glad we don't have avatars because I would get avatar envy. I don't have the inclination or resources to find something that would go even halfway to communicating how bloody cool I am.

The same one I use now:

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I know.

Interestingly, that picture is part of the "logo" for Elttaes Theaters here in my neighborhood. Yes it was very clever.

Certainly can, many people think they really are what they project when it's far from the truth.How many times do you have to hear it, you don't own the thread. If you don't want to argue, don't.

you mean this thread about the pioneers of motion pictures?

Look into my eyes...
 

...the window to the soul?

i'd be giving them to people, don't worry SG....i'd make sure yours was extra cool.

That reminds me...

that black jockeys were genetically superior athletes?

Ooh, just thought
I'd have the one Bruce posted here but really small so as not to frighten the horses

Dammit, I don't know! Someone say it.

That would be a GREAT pic for you SG !!!

Is it still to early to post the answer? 'Cause I know too! Woohoo! I know an answer!

This is mine.

JJ: Hey Al, we have... a... Sit-u-Ashun. That requires Remeedia-shun.

Big Al: No absolution widout restitution!

JJ: You know. The Rainbow. Coalition funds. Be low. So--

Big Al: So- Get LJ on my show! Let ALL the peoples know.

OK - since my obscure trivia question wasn't so obscure, post away the answer!!

Whether or not a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at the same time. (It does)

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Mine would look something like this.

Hmm. Some of you have personalities that seem a little . . . bland. And imaginations to match.

It's okay! Just gotta get some juice in your life, people!

Yup, got me banged to rights there guv

Avatars communicate the same thing to the members of an online community that novelty T-Shirts
(IE "Shit Happens When You Party Naked" etc...) communicate to the members of a shopping mall.

I want some scintillation!

. . . but of course I can't demand, only request.

"Pierced in Places You'd Love to Lick"

I also might consider this one:

http://backup.cellar.org/2005/avataravatar.gif

This is my avatar on some sites. It's an Avatar brand bass speaker cabinet. So this is a self-referencing pun that nobody would get without explanation, which I like to pretend makes me secretly ironic and cool.

Of course, since it does no such thing, that makes it "as useful as tits on a bull", or, just as useful as every other avatar out there.

I'll take that as a compliment... and I have plenty already, thank you. Apple by preference, though I like orange and grapefruit as well.

It does make you ironic and cool! See, because the picture I posted earlier in the thread is a character named "The Avatar" from a show named the same thing. So we'll be ironic and cool together and the rest of these people can all go be genuine together somewhere.

Who you calling genuine?!?!?!

Not you ;)

I knew the Muybridge trivia answer ... I was crazy about horses when I was younger and read everything. Most books have information about the motion study pictures.

I use the same avatar on most boards I go to that use them.
http://www.blackstormhawk.com/cellar...shnikitty.jpeg

What about your signature: "wolf eht htiw og" ...? I would make that part of my MO if I were you.

I got it, but only because my son doesn't miss an episode! ;)

That's a bit of hommage to LJ, actually. I can't take credit for it.I only post as wolf on a couple boards.

My .sig has been pretty much stable for several years.

I know, it's LJ's work, but it was freely given. Wherever I posted as "wolf" I would use the shit out of that.

All hail the ironic and cool people!

Same can be said of our user names. It's just silly fun.

Undertoad--I think your Avatar avatar is pretty clever!

And - not only do I use the Avatar brand bass speaker cabinet as my personal avatar, I also use it as my personal speaker cabinet. I have two of them, and they are great.

No imagination? The avatar I posted is a black bear hibernating in a cave. The black bear symbolizes me, in a state of slumber, waiting for the spring which is my life to awaken as I too, awaken to my true self and emerge...strong, rested, and sure. The cave is the dark space which I had slowly retreated to over the past couple of years, a shelter from the madness and sadness, a roof from the rain of despair and loneliness...yet positioned next to a beautiful forest of life and goodness.

No imagination...puh! ;)

thought it was a Rothko painting.

Ironically, genuine.
 

My Avatar from another phase in my life: