Avatar origins
 

To go along with Flybone's username origin thread, there are certainly a handful of avatars around here that I've often asked about. Baby Lee's avy was the most confusing thing ever for the longest time until I finally asked him about it. Iconic is another one in which I've never gotten a response. Why does Mr. Flopnuts have Mike Holmgren in a chiefs shirt saying "ohhh yeah" as his avatar? All relevant questions that can be answered in this thread!

To start off, my avatar comes from the character "Bufkin", who was made famous in "The Wizard of Oz" starring Audrey Hepburn. He was then reprised as a fable character in the video game "The Wolf Among Us".

Mine was hand selected by Rain Man. You can close this thread. Nobody is topping that.

You were another one I was curious about! I'll have to add Eraserhead to my "must watch" list.

Pretty self-explanatory.
I created it before I even knew what Photoshop was....and am damn proud of my efforts considering it was made in Paint.

Make your own avatar from scratch or you are just a second rate poster.

I had Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday for years, but Lloyd Bridges seemed far more appropriate.

Who has got that kind of time.

Clay could have found the cure for cancer by now, but instead he's busy grab assin' around on the internet.

Well done.:thumb:

Mine is from this group of guys I hung around with in the 70's. They were crazy, they cut off my beautiful freak flag, kicked my ass, abused me and ended up making a man out of me.

:LOL: <- click me

I just realized your avatar isn't fire marshal bill.

Somewhere, somebody on the internet created it, and I stole it from them.

Mine is obvious. He's my happy, special little dude that makes everything in my life worth while.

I liked his badass cowboy pic. He might get a kick out of updating it.

LMAO. Yeah, he still wears that hat on occasion.
That is a great picture.

Mine is what the Chiefs have done to me. Can't stop watching the trainwreck in hopes that ONE DAY they will finally win it all.

For a very long time I was Underdog. One day I changed after when the grand kids was watching another one of my favorite cartoon shows as a kid.

I saw the image and then shopped it to my liking..

Originally it was a white helmet and shoes and I think a blue g-string

Just thought it looked cool

Avatars with fire are the best. :thumb:

I actually signed up here to share a Joe Spinell gif I made after seeing that Starcrash avatar.

http://i.imgur.com/D5p16J1.gif

It took so long to gain the ability to post pics, I forgot why I was here in the first place.

I have always been a Walken fan and his skits on SNL are legendary. I particularly laughed my ass off at that particular skit so I went with it. On another board I always had my childhood hero Otis Taylor. But another member has OT's football card for an avatar so I didn't want to steal his thunder. By the way I have that exact card and its a prized possession.

Yours cracks me up every time, partially for what it references, partly because the expression adds an attitude to your generally genial posts.

So I always picture you irritably shouting friendly things.

Mine was given to me by the great and powerful SNR during his roast of me in the Top 100 Posters thread.

Cool story Kosnowski.

That's odd, I hung around those same guys in the early 2000s. They haven't changed much.
Semper Fi

Tavia Chunt giving appreciation to Uncle Ronnie for boldly wearing the Chiefs colors world wide. You go girl. Chunt is under the bench.

Mine came from a series of democratic revolutions that spread across the Middle East. One week, Palestine began their umpteenth struggle for their own country. I changed my avatar in solidarity with them.

I haven't changed it largely because nobody in DC ever gave a shit that I had had a half-dozen other countries' flags in my avatar, but when I changed it to Palestine's, I got a ton of flack for it all of a sudden from the usual suspects.

So I largely kept it as a middle finger, but the struggle in Palestine has simply never died down, so I do keep it as a continuing nugget of solidarity.

I've never begun to understand it, but it does tells me "wow, this guy is obviously into social justice probably because that flag is probably significant in some way with what is going on in this world today."

Michael Scott, because even though I've seen every episode a gazillion times, Michael Scott amtica still crack me up.

That's a better response than what I normally get, which is some ****tard assuming they know what it means and showing their ass over it.

My old boy Gandy. He never met a human, cat or dog he didn't love. He hated gofers and squirrels and was good at killing them. He always laid next to me quiet and watched Chiefs games. Also, he was shy about people watching him go to the bathroom and always searched for privacy. He got old and slow and didn't move fast enough and the ex-gfs dad backed over him. RIP!

He sounds like he was a winner! The Chiefs could learn a thing or two from good ol' Gandy. :thumb:

The wife and I like to use things like pizza to show our little ones how fun Satan worship can be, so this just kind of stuck.

That's kind of anti-Semitic of you to say, being that your avatar is a star of David...

Mine is a pic of my two dogs. Dodger in the foreground and curled up on the bed behind him is Betty, my 18 yr old beagle. She was a hell of a rabbit dog back in her day

That's a pentagram, not a star of David.

Star of David has six points.

If you're going to be an asshole, do it in another thread please.

By the way, I have a minor in religious history.

Audrey Hepburn wasn't in the Wizard of Oz

How was that being an asshole?

You accusing someone, unjustifiably, of being anti-semitic is being an asshole.

I am what I eat.

Have you not figured out yet that Bufkin is a troll?

No, bufkin is not a troll. Bufkin is a monkey. Read the OP.

On topic, I think most can figure out the link between the avatar and my name.

A fan of literature I see. Moby Dick is indeed a classic.

Mine is a design/illustration that I created in Adobe Illustrator with half a Patriot and half a Buccaneer.
I had a larger one but lost it when my HD got damaged. It's somewhere on a back-up disk tho' but I can't be bothered trying to locate it.

Got any extra clubs you might want to sell? Needing a good 3 iron...

That's really cool shit, man.

Mine is somewhat self-explanatory.

My avatar is the character, "Clarence" from the old MTV puppet show, Wonder Showzen. In the show, Clarence is always making people feel uncomfortable and purposely creates awkward situations with himself and random strangers. I think I tend to do this... on this board and when I am being silly in real life.

My wife and I watch The Office literally every night before we go to bed. Every...single...night. Obviously, we love that show very much.

And if I can recall, you two can bone in a commercial break with time to spare. ;)

RE: The thread, no personal association. Entire explanation is long winded, if Mr. Bufkin can recall where I laid it out before, feel free to link it. Short story, Paul F. Tomkins was doing something I found and find very amusing for a reason I found even more amusing while playing a character of his and I screencapped the image and set is as my Avy.

Cheater 5: (surfing) A form of hang five move, but where the surfer keeps themselves and their weight well back from the front of the board and just reaches out with one leg to get five toes over the nose (as opposed to standing properly at the front).

I like to surf.

Mine is obvious.

3 consecutive times before the show starts back up if I'm on top of my game and she's not on bottom!!!

Did you see the recent Drunk History on Eddie Aikau

You're a Chinese exchange student?

Mine is a reminder that Pepper Brooks > you

For years I used a tapping boot with a cowboy hat. It just fit my username RedNeckRaider. I shortened the name and now switch avatars often. The current one is a picture of my bike~
Edited~
Name changed back to original

Mine was from 2003 iraq. We were dropped in by Chinook on about every mission (sounds cooler then it was) I saw the sky chief logo on the side of one of the birds and got a quick picture. The chopper was about as broke as the Chiefs d at the time so I was always nervous flying in it. When I first posted it here, another cp'r recognized it. He had flown a few missions in it too.

I've spent so damn much time behind the wheel of one, it fit.

Even though I curse those one who sucks the peniss quite a bit, it still fits. Kind of like the Chiefs I guess. They piss me off infinitely, but is can't live without them. That and nobody else has it.

Mine is the cover to my first novel...

Queen Anne's Revenge- Historic fiction.

Available World Wide.

Michael Bolton, mkay?

Mine was designed or co-opted by teeduya. I was originally using this one below but to Rainmans still simmering displeasure switched to the current one 8-9 years ago.

The Singer?

joe frazier, my favorite boxer, and one of the baddest mother ****ers to ever roam the earth.

Cool thread Joey

:Poke::bolt:

Can't be Joey.


Trust me on this. It's impossible
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Mine is one of my ceramic sculptures...

Bufkin has a job
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How much longer does Joey have, anyway?

No idea, that's not why I'm sure it's not Joey though.
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Really? Awesome!

I'm working on a day of the dead tattoo, my avvy reflects that...