WTF is your avatar?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:45 pm

There are some around here that are cryptic, of indeterminate origin or just outright unidentifiable. Specifically, I've been staring at Remus's for days trying to figure it out.

Mine is the Holy Titanium Spork!!

Little Raven · Post by **Little Raven** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:01 pm

Mine is a goblin from Outside Over There.

Hispanicgamer · Post by **Hispanicgamer** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:11 pm

Mine is Louis Pasteur. My hero of microbiology.

Dan_Theman · Post by **Dan_Theman** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:12 pm

A statement for Minimalism.

Hispanicgamer · Post by **Hispanicgamer** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:17 pm

Dan_Theman wrote:A statement for Minimalism.

That's why You're the Man!

SpaceLord · Post by **SpaceLord** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:25 pm

It's what it looks like.

Trent Steel · Post by **Trent Steel** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:25 pm

Jack Burton. ME.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:27 pm

if anyone here doesn't recognize mine, i would be very disappointed...

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:31 pm

Hispanicgamer wrote:Mine is Louis Pateur. My hero of microbiology.

And poor speller

Lordnine · Post by **Lordnine** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:33 pm

Mines the Rutabaga King. All bow before me!

lch · Post by **lch** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:36 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:There are some around here that are cryptic, of indeterminate origin or just outright unidentifiable. Specifically, I've been staring at Remus's for days trying to figure it out.

I can tell you that one at least. It's Baby Richard, from the webcomic "Looking for group".

My avatar here should be fairly obvious, it's from Napoleon Dynamite.

Dang, now I wasted my post count of 666 that I wanted to keep.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:40 pm

Rupert of Hentzau

Jag · Post by **Jag** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:50 pm

A dog. Mine to be more specific

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:59 pm

Part of the cover of the Firesign Theater classic How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?

For reference, here's the complete cover:

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:03 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Specifically, I've been staring at Remus's for days trying to figure it out.

Scrooge McDuck in a mining cart. Maybe. Maybe not.

lch · Post by **lch** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:27 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote:Scrooge McDuck in a mining cart. Maybe. Maybe not.

I'm not that enthusiastic to say "I highly recommend reading the entire series. It will have you laughing out loud and addicted in no time." like he does, but I admit, I do read that one semi-regularly since I found it, which was just slightly after they started. It's not that great, more like popcorn or bubble gum, but at least you know what to expect, it's drawn quite well, and Richard is good comic relief. The first six strips are still the best, as they're the best written ones. Wish all of them were of that quality.

Oh, hey, if anybody needs webcomic recommendations, I got dozens.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:27 pm

A favorite Guild Wars skill.

Hamsterball_Z · Post by **Hamsterball_Z** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:35 pm

Tycho flipping off a box of kittens. Take that LOLCats!

Ninyu · Post by **Ninyu** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:57 pm

Mine is me at an inn in Austria enjoying a beer after a looooooong hike up in the Alps.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:01 pm

Mine is of GW before he became president.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:02 pm

disarm wrote:if anyone here doesn't recognize mine, i would be very disappointed...

How can anybody recognize it? You're in disguise.

WPD · Post by **WPD** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:05 pm

Mine is the logo of the Bluth Company corporate logo. They sold me my first house and I have found it to be a really nice home, although I did see a similar-looking one on the news once...maybe in Iraq?

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:18 pm

Conker!

Sectoid · Post by **Sectoid** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:35 pm

It's a Sectoid...duh!

Seriously, it is a Sectoid from X-Com, as depicted by Aaron Gaines an artist who worked on the artwork for LOTR Online as well as some other games. Here's the full image.

You can see the rest of his work at bigfuzzygoat.com.

Boudreaux · Post by **Boudreaux** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:51 pm

I'm going to assume that mine is also not one of the cryptic ones.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:10 pm

It's a kraken. Kraken is my nickname most places, and my company is Kraken Enterprises.

Crux · Post by **Crux** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:12 pm

It's the constellation known as the "Southern Cross". Crux Australis

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:15 pm

die if you don't know

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:26 pm

I've supposed to be the receiver, not the kicker.

BTW, this was a real picture of real Shaolin monks in San Francisco City Hall demonstrating their discipline.

Lassr · Post by **Lassr** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:26 pm

mine is what it is

Shinjin · Post by **Shinjin** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:36 pm

Light saber dueling cockroach demons from Order of the Stick. (though I'm reasonably certain that's not too obscure)

Tscott · Post by **Tscott** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:43 pm

292, 69

Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:50 pm

Some loud, messy and smelly thing that lives in my house.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:57 pm

I'll let Wikipedia do the talking. This is in reference to a story collection called "The King in Yellow" written by Robert W. Chambers in 1895:

The first four stories are loosely connected by three main devices:

* A play in book form entitled The King in Yellow
* A mysterious and malevolent supernatural entity known as The King in Yellow
* An eerie symbol called The Yellow Sign

The color yellow signifies the decadent and aesthetic attitudes that were fashionable at the turn of the 19th century, typified by such publications as The Yellow Book[1], a literary journal associated with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. It has also been suggested that the color yellow represents quarantine — an allusion to decay, disease, and specifically mental illness. For instance, the famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", involving a bedridden woman's descent into madness, was published shortly before Chambers' book.

H.P. Lovecraft referenced "The King in Yellow" in some of his stories. My avatar is the supernatural entity known as the King in Yellow as depicted in the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.

I based my name off both the Lovecraftian reference and the fact that in Age of Empires I always picked the color yellow for my team because the contrast made my units easy to see.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:01 pm

Thanks for the link, LB. I don't know how I missed that one.

Mr Bubbles · Post by **Mr Bubbles** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:08 pm

Painting by Jan Van Eyck

flashman · Post by **flashman** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:19 pm

Alexander the Grape - discontinued candy from the company that makes Lemonheads

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:20 pm

Skinny Puppy's logo

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:22 pm

Red-headed mermaid being captured (?) by an overlord. I went back and forth about whether to change my avatar, because I really liked my old one, and will probably go back to it sometime, but I was in the mood for a change. I fully intend to dress up as my old avatar for Halloween some year... and I should probably find where I saved that picture... I hope I didn't lose it in my recent laptop crash.

Option 3 ended up being my avatar for my Flickr account.

miltonite · Post by **miltonite** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:28 pm

Mine is the freak tree. The company logo for Freak Tree Productions that me and a friend came up with that we will use when we start a t-shirt company (silk screening).