Amusing avatars

[EricKei]

RichS - Non-commercial Fanart should (generally) be OK, as long as you upload it here (so as not to leech their bandwidth) and get their permission first.

[AdamAnt316]

What did you get into? Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, VW?

Into a Chrysler. Actually, the phrase "get the hell outta Dodge" has an interesting etymology. As I figured, it refers to Dodge City, Kansas, and was apparently made popular by the TV western "Gunsmoke". And probably predates the Dodge automobile by several decades.
-Adam

[RichS]

Mine's a pic of one of my (and many other's!) favorite animated series. That, and some times at work I'm referred to as some sort of Avatar-like miracle worker

I'd like to change it to my current favorite series, but I want to find a good pic that's not copyright-infringing so as not to bring any trouble to the website.

[wolfie]

I quickly stuffed it in the back of my car along with some other stuff, and got the hell outta Dodge.

What did you get into? Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, VW?

[AdamAnt316]

Mine is one of the many, many obsolete computers I have, an Apple Lisa. Introduced in 1983, the Lisa was one of the first computers to feature a graphical user interface. Its original asking price of nearly $10,000, combined with a lack of third-party software, led to slow sales. The introduction of the original Macintosh a year later at a quarter of the price sealed its fate. A company called Sun Remarketing converted many of them to 'big-screen Macs' and sold them for several years afterwards, but eventually quite a few of them were buried in a Utah landfill.

The story of how I found my Apple Lisa is rather crazy: I was hanging around at a local computer surplus store when a couple of guys came in offering to sell the store a bunch of computers. When asked what they had, the guys rattled off the names of several vintage computers, including the Lisa. The store employees were unwilling to buy their computers since they'd be unable to support them, so the guys asked if they could just leave them in the parking lot.

When told that some of them might be valuable, the guys replied that they just wanted them gone. After several minutes, I poked my head out of the store, and sure enough, amongst a pile of old PC junk was the Lisa, along with its keyboard and mouse. I quickly stuffed it in the back of my car along with some other stuff, and got the hell outta Dodge.
-Adam

[Racket_Man]

Mine is just one of my rose blooms I photographed over the years. Not really all that special.

Over on Fratching my avatar is a neat pic of my now deceased fur baby.

Other places I have a pic of a juvenile hawk that decided to perch on a fence post near some road kill. Just as I was taking pictures he turned and looked directly at me. Neat shot.

[OneMoreTime]

I chose mine because I like cats and I thought it was funny.

[wolfie]

I've got (somewhere - on film) a photo of a sign saying "Parking Permitted", with a double-headed arrow showing that it's OK to park on either side of the sign. Also in the picture, roughly 3 feet from the sign, is a fire hydrant.

[Arcus]

Mine is a sign I passed one night. I laughed so I had to stop and take a picture. I used it here just because I wanted something.

[Bardmaiden]

One I found about fifteen years ago in the long ago days of 2001 when I was signing up to a message board and needed an avatar. Has kinda become my online persona

[CloserToSane]

Kerry Ellis, because she's pretty. I'm not complicated.

[darkroxas45]

*straps blocks of cement to his feet after getting away from the doors* never seen it

[EricKei]

Ayyyup. I was referring to the movie. I did a little wiki walking on the subject, and it's got me interested in reading the book.

[Racket_Man]

Pollo --- Are you saying you're over thirty? Off to Carrousel with you!

That depends via the book of the same name or the Movie with Micheal York or the short lived TV series they did a couple of years later or the proposed remake/re-boot in the future.

The movie condensed the universe into a really small exsistence. The Book was much ore expanded.

Yes both had the same premiss.

[Sunshine]

Mine is just a reaction sticker to all the twilight fans. Plus, LKH rocks!!!!