avatar, sig, handle

[beyelzu]

"where does he get those lovely toys."


so what and why your handle

what is the story of your signature

and finally

what's up with that avatar

[livius drusus]

Marcus Livius Drusus is my man and Rome is my city. Plus, that eclipsing moon just looks cool.

[beyelzu]

I know that this has been done before but what the fuck live a little.




beyelzu: shortened quasi phonetic spelling of beelzebub, been using it for many moons. first use was as a d and d character before I ever got online. first online use was as my hotmail account.




My sig is a quote by hunter s thompson, liv suggested that it would make a damn fine sig line and I agreed, it is from hunter's obit for Nixon.



My avatar was made by farren who when I said that I needed an avatar he suggested a giant dick. It seemed appropriate.

:tmgrin:

[beyelzu]

Marcus Livius Drusus is my man and Rome is my city. Plus, that eclipsing moon just looks cool.
I would like to point out that I think that the age difference might just be insurmountable.
:tmgrin:

[viscousmemories]

Several years ago I went to sign up for AIM, but couldn't find a name that wasn't taken. Frustrated, I thought of two unrelated words (viscous and memories, for the slow kids) and stuck them together. I don't generally use .sigs but I might some day. Maybe today. My avatar is from Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies 'cause I have a morbid sense of humor and an appreciation of pen and ink sketches.

[viscousmemories]

I don't generally use .sigs but I might some day. Maybe today.
Yep, today's the day.

[John Carter]

My handle is a character in a series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the same writer who gave us Tarzan. As an aside, let me say that Burrough's Tarzan is nothing at all like the Hollywood versions. I shudder to think what John Carter would be like if they got hold of him. My location and custom title come from the books as well, and the avatar was inspired by them. As far as that goes, much of my profile comes from Burrough's Mars series.

My sig, otoh, is a verse from one of my favorite songs.

[LiveToRide]

I don't really need to explain any of them, do I?

[livius drusus]

I don't really need to explain any of them, do I?

:laugh:

[wei yau]

Avatar: A chop of my Chinese name, a wonderful gift from my parents

Sig: None, I'm not a fan of sigs

Handle: Is the name of the "space elf" race from Warhammer 40K, a wargame with miniatures.

Title (not that you asked): Is an anagram of real name.

[Brimshack]

Brimshack Gunnaheave was a D&D character. I used it offhand one day while signing up for CF. Thinking I'd be banned within 24 hours, I didn't really care. It stuck, and I've been using variations of it ever since.

My graduation photo needs no explanation. (But thanks to Scotty for a little help).

My current signature line is a quote from a song by someone whose name escapes me, but he used to be the lead singer in the Foremen.

[The Lone Ranger]

As an aside, let me say that Burrough's Tarzan is nothing at all like the Hollywood versions.
Indeed. In E. R. Burrough's books, Tarzan was very articulate indeed -- he was downright brilliant in fact. He taught himself to read and write from the books his slain parents left behind. (Even when I read Tarzan of the Apes as a kid, I didn't buy that for a moment, but there's no questioning the fact that Burroughs' Tarzan was one smart cookie.)



As for me, well, I loved watching reruns of "The Lone Ranger" as a kid. TLR struck me as a very admirable person indeed: he was dedicated to aiding those in distress; he was always kind, courteous and respectful toward others; he always took pains to speak clearly and grammatically; he always shot to disarm, not to kill -- in short, he struck me as a truly admirable character.

Reading Clayton Moore's biography only increased my admiration of the man who created the character. (Yes, other people have played the Ranger before and since, but Clayton Moore was The Lone Ranger.) Moore says that he was painfully aware that the character he was portraying would be a role model, so he always took pains to make sure that the Ranger was portrayed as an admirable character -- someone who was well-spoken, courteous and respectful toward others, who didn't drink or smoke, and who didn't kill. (Moore even refused to do endorsements for cigarettes -- a practically heretical thing for an actor in the '40s and '50s -- because he didn't want to be a bad influence on children.)

Sure, it seems pretty hokey nowadays, but I have fond memories nonetheless. It's almost laughable to see the Ranger shooting guns out of the bad guys' hands from 100 yards away or so, and the relationship between the Ranger and Tonto leaves something to be desired from a modern perspective. Still, Jay Silverheels (who played Tonto) often wrote and spoke of how he and Moore really were friends, and how much he appreciated that Moore treated him as an equal -- and more to the point, that he actually battled with the show's producers to make Tonto a more intelligent and admirable character. At the time, virtually all Native Americans were treated as bloodthirsty savages by Hollywood, so it was remarkable that Tonto was portrayed as an intelligent and resourceful individual. The Mohawk Nation actually made Clayton Moore an honorary member, to reward him for speaking up for Native American rights.

The origins of my avatar and sig are probably obvious.


I'm nobody's role model, but I'm nonetheless dedicated to the principle that we should strive to treat others with courtesy and respect, and to help those in need when we can. I could do a lot worse than to emulate TLR.

Cheers,

Michael

[Crumb]

/me chooses to remain ineffable. :hmph:

[copiae]

Avatar (http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW378.jpg): Its a work by MC Escher. I've always loved the somberness of it. Also, in it, i see a world, ignored by people in a seemingly great rush to get somewhere.


Sig: No Sig. :)

Handle: back when i was learning Latin, this was one of the staple words used in the introductory text. It means forces (military), amongst other things, but thats not why i chose it -> I liked the sound of it, and that it had 4 of the 5 vowels in a 6 letter word.


Title: Seek, and you shall find.



Farewell, for now.

[Weaselboots]

Weaselboots- hmmm i have ferrets who get very fluffy in winter. We also call them evil weasels, worms and all manner of things. I said one day when Guinness, our sable, dies i hope its in winter so i can make boots, well one small slipper really, from his skin. Weaslboots has stuck, its odd and cute, and i'm not really sure why i picked it. I go by a different name on SC.

Avatar- White Horse of Uffington. 374 feet long carved into the chalk and turf in England. I have always loved the design, got to visit it and will be my next tattoo (if i get around to it)

Sig- From the original "The Fly". There is a scene when somehow the cat get transmogrified in the machine. The can hear it meowing but its in the eather somewhere. The main female character says this line. Its become a bit of a catch phase with my sister and I. Sums alot of stuff up plus its a bit kooky.

[Godless Dave]

Handle: Is the name of the "space elf" race from Warhammer 40K, a wargame with miniatures.

They stole it from Tolkien. In Middle-Earth, the Eldar are those elves who had lived in Valinor and returned to Middle-Earth.

My handle: I chose it for Internet Infidels because I'm godless and my name is Dave (sort of).

My sig: Another Hunter S. Thompson quote that I just like the sound of.

My avatar: Smokin' Jebus, as designed by the inimitible Missus Gumby.

[Leesifer]

Avatar: Anubis. I've always been interested in Egypt - it is my ambition to go there one day.

Handle: Variation on Lisa (always get called Leees anyway).

Sig: No signature, only 'cos I can't think of one clever or funny enough!

[Waluigi]

Handle: I use a different one on every message board I register on, and I was looking to keep the trend going. I was introduced to Waluigi while playing Mario Party 5 at a friend's house. Now we own MP 6, and Waluigi is my favorite character in the game.

Avatar: That's the man himself!

Rank: I figured my rank is a good match for my user name. I was going to use "You are lousy!", which is Waluigi's taunt in MP6, but decided on ne'er-do-well instead.

Sig: It's a line from The Simpsons that I found rather humerous.

[livius drusus]

Sig: It's a line from The Simpsons that I found rather humerous.

Every time I see your sig I hear Homer's uber sarcastic voice in my head.

[Shake]

Avatar: currently, a logo ripped off from a Fear Factory website. I just think it looks cool
Sig: the first part is a hyperlinked song lyric to one of my favorite bands' website. The second part is an image I took from some site which had a bunch of other EAC graphics, but I liked this one.
Handle: taken from bastard-ized mispronounciation of my last name, I first heard it around the 1st grade, but it got resurrected in the 11th grade and it's stuck as a nickname, IRL even! I'm just as likely to answer to 'Shake' as I am to my real name.

Hmm ... no one asked, but others are describing their titles as well, so: I've been called out on other boards for simply noting how lovely some female board members are, and the "old" is in quotes because I may be 35, but I don't feel it. (Well, maybe sometimes).

[Shake]

Oh, I hope you don't expect us to come back here and update things if we change any of the above. Do you?

Cuz you know that some people (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1946&highlight=avatart) change these things like they change their underwear! :P

[Beth]

My name is Beth and Sonnet made my purty little flashing av. It incorates some of my favorite colors and my favorite britcom, Absolutely Fabulous.

[Beth]

Oh, I hope you don't expect us to come back here and update things if we change any of the above. Do you?

Cuz you know that some people (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1946&highlight=avatart) change these things like they change their underwear! :PNow, now, now, Shake. If I changed my undies with the frequency of the way I change my avatar, a person would be able to smell my arrival long before I came into view. :eek:

[Shake]

Well, I'm not exactly being literal there -- it's a figure of speech.

[wei yau]

Handle: Is the name of the "space elf" race from Warhammer 40K, a wargame with miniatures.

They stole it from Tolkien. In Middle-Earth, the Eldar are those elves who had lived in Valinor and returned to Middle-Earth.

Yup, I'm aware of the source, if not the details.

If you ever take a look at Warhammer Fantasy Battles, you'll see that Games Workshop stole far more from Tolkien. Warhammer 40K is simply a sci-fi version of Warhammer Fantasy Battles.

I suppose I should clarify that my description of my handle relates to how I first encountered the word, not its actual origins.

[viscousmemories]

No, that's unacceptable Eldar. You must describe it's actual origins or say nothing at all.

[wei yau]

No, that's unacceptable Eldar. You must describe it's actual origins or say nothing at all.


Beg to differ...

so what and why your handle

My original answer got both "what" and "why".

You're starting to make me feel unwelcomed around here, perhaps I should just take my toys and go home.

[viscousmemories]

Hmm... I hope you're kidding, 'cause I was.

[wei yau]

Hmm... I hope you're kidding, 'cause I was.

Yeah, I was. Not terribly funny, I know.

Just feeling a bit petulant because I'm having a really crappy week at work.

Please accept my apologies.

[Brimshack]

Be quiet or I'll turn you both into Scottsmen!

[viscousmemories]

Yeah, I was. Not terribly funny, I know.

Just feeling a bit petulant because I'm having a really crappy week at work.

Please accept my apologies.
Wait, are you apologizing for not being funnier, for being petulant, or both? :P

Sorry, my turn to fail at trying to be funny.

I don't mind being a Scotsman, but methinks a Scottsman would be used to wipe someone's bum.

http://www.scottbrand.com/us/products/tissue/images/img_tissue_single.jpg

[Dingfod]

Handle? warrenly is my first two names: Warren Lee Why? Because I'm too unimaginative to come up with something better at the time I signed up for IIDB, which led me here in a roundabout way. Better? I think my handle at sdmb was better: DogmaCat, or at even at snopes: Goes-hmmm. Goes-hmmm's origin was manyfold, Arsenio Hall's catch phrase in one segment of his long since cancelled late-night talk show was "Things that make you go 'Hmmm?'" In fact, I think he had a flash in the pan hit rap number based on it. I'm a former rotorhead (fans or owners of Mazda rotary engined cars). Mazda used to use an advertising catch phrase back in the 1970s, "Piston engines go boing, boing, boing; Mazda goes hmmm." It fit well with my cynical skepticism about most everything, I'm the guy who goes "Hmmm?"

Sig? Something cynically pessimist I said back in 1986 or 1987 that stuck with me. Why? Why not, I've got more of 'em.

Avatar? Wario is Mario's sort-of-evil twin competition in the Mario Cart video game that I used to play with my daughters. I loved his evil laugh: "I'm a Wario and I'm a gonna win! HAhahaa!" and his cry when he got bumped off the track, a gravelly "Waaaaaa!" Why? The name resemblance attracted me and Waluigi's avatar reminded me of my long denied affection for Wario.

[koan]

My avatar is me (and my MinPin) My username came about because a friend told me, shortly before I joined my first forum, that I was a living Zen koan. I thought it was rather cool. My sig I just made up about two days after I joined the original forum. Being a koan I figured I shouldn't worry about what it meant. :D "ReMember" I wrote after I couldn't be online for a while and I felt like I was rejoining.

[HarryLime]

Harry Lime is one of the greatest film villains of all time, portrayed by Orson Welles in The Third Man. My avatar is of the greatest CD in history, Nick Cave's Tender Prey. And my sig is obviously from this week's Onion, as I found it funny as hell. There'll be a new one shortly, though.

Will

[Ymir's blood]

Ymir (pronounced emir) was the primordial giant that the ancestor of the Norse gods slew and then formed the universe from his body. The blood that flowed from his wounds became the sea. I needed a username to lurk on this board and wanted to avoid the overly dark ones that normally come to me. The day I registered had been spent reading Norse myths so something was picked from that.

The avatar is something I whipped up in photoshop to represent the name. It is a iceberg under the harsh arctic sun.

My current sig is a Latin phrase used as a motto on clocks. It means "each one* wounds, the last one kills."

* One refers to an hour

My user title comes from something that livius called me after I'd commited a particularly egregious act.

[godfry n. glad]

Handle: Created for alt.atheism. It's a declarative sentence.

Avatar: Selected from the fine arts files made available at this site. It was here when I arrived, I selected it due to my interests in sculpture and subject. It's Laocoon, the prophet of Troy, who warned the Trojans not to accept gifts from the Greeks...like a huge wooden horse... For his pains, the gods sent serpents to destroy not only him, but his prescient sons as well. I felt a certain...identity...at the time.

Usertitle: Updated version of the prophesy which earned Laocoon his fate.

Sig: It changes erractically. The current one amuses me. I saw it posted in a co-workers cube.