Why / how did you pick your avatar ?
what (if anything) does it mean (to you)?
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Norman_Outside the lines
ANSWERS: 100
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My avatar was my Halloween costume. LOL, not my current one. This one;
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Its my picture, it means something personal to me as it is me.
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I pick my avatars based on what kind of mood I'm in, when I get tired of one, I switch. This one I'm using right now, I just think it's something you're not likley to see often, so I like it.
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In 7th grade, our choir class went to Tennesse for a festival. We went to Dollywood and I won this inflatable smiley. My friends and I called it "Dictator Smiley." Ah... good times.
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Well my avatar is me and my fiance kissing I love this picture it was a good night.
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Mine comes from a comedy sketch by Eddie Izzard. The crux of it is "how would the Spanish Inquisition be different if the Church of England had run it?" Supposedly the choice was conversion to Christianity or Death. Since we Anglicans are known to be a little "laid back" shall we say, he thought that if we had been in charge the choice would be "Tea and cake with the Vicar or Death!" hence...Cake or Death!
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He is/was a very special person and quite an interesting man. I liked him alot, and rather than pick a movie star, a cartoon character, or something inanimate, I picked Albert. It is NO reflection on how I see my own intelligence! ;)
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My avatar is my totem animal, and it picked me.
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good times
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i made it my avatar because i feel proud of stealing it from piczo...even tho i have no exact reason.
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My avatar is EXACTLY how Id picture my 1y 4mo dog if she were an ANIME. Everything is just about right with her, from the big black eyes, pointy ears to the bushy tail right down to the white and fawn coat. . YUP, I adore her :)
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Cause I love Rainbow Bright, and Stormy was the coolest character.
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because it ME. (look, <--- see?)
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Cause I love the Yankees and Derek Jeter exemplifies everything the organization stands for.
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I don't know its just a pic of myself and i have no idea of why i choose that one.
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because I love fairies, and especially the art of this particular artist. (the avatar will change, but will always be a fairy of some kind) ☺
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Because I belive strongly in its meaning.
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its a painting of me done by the artist Steven Leyba.
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i am a bit of a lunatic, just like this cat. and elleonora is just my name.
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Because it is one of my favorite web toons and I edit it to depict my mood.
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It represents my purpose.
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Because old Vlad was such a happy looking dude.If you look very closely, he's just about to crack up laughing in this picture. I also hear he was a real riot at parties.
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I chose mine just because....
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Because I'm a Baby Rottie... why else?
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Because everytime I see it I am reminded as to how privileged I am to live here!
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because it made me chuckle when I saw it. A dog dressed as Yoda - who wouldn't chuckle?
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Because I love my cat and his picture makes me smile when I see it.
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Because I truly do love shoes.
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i love tigers. my real name is skye but my grandad always called me golly.
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Its a picture of Rincewind, a useless wizard who can't do magic and who gets everything wrong, sums me up well :-)
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I love the power of big cats
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My girlfriend likes it.
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Because I lift my eyebrow like the left eye is lifted and I can be very Sassy!!!!!!!!!
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I have several. This is the one for now anyway. (and I love Warhol).
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Cause I love my little dog
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because i love yankee hats and this one is one of my favorites
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Because I'm fascinated by serial killers, and I particularly like this image. So I did just a small bit of editing to give it my own twist.
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Because my friend bought me this hat, and I felt it's conical shape represented something in my personality. Fortunately a few days later, I became a sage, and it fit right in with the theme.
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A photo of the album 'Edward The Great', not that I think I'm great ;-)
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Its my design of a fractal I created. I also use to have my Girlfriends picture up here. I used both because it set me apart from others As sunny said in I-robot "I am unique."
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i liked the Picture
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I can't change it. I don't know how. Its kinda boring
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Mine is a photo of a designer toy called Makutu the Yellow Eyed Penguin. I love the design, and also the great little story behind it. Makutu belongs to an extreme environmental action group called IWG [Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo] which goes around striking back at humans for their crimes against animals and habitats. The range of toys features a wide variety of armed and deadly creatures e.g. a Japanese Snow Monkey with a Samurai sword, an elephant with a rocket launcher, bears with rifles and a rhino with a machine gun. Makutu's special skill is using her torpedo for aquatic strikes. If that sounds like a fun idea, you might love this clip - http://www.rocketworld.org/i_w_g__video.htm [no humans were harmed in the making of this video]
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Because I have always been OBSESSED with butterflies. They represent a care-free, freedom to me. I love it. I use butterflies as symbols all the time in my everyday life.
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It is just my picture and my name
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lmao mines a system of a down album cover! GO SOAD!!
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Mine changes. Currently it's a cute version of what I would look like if I were a cartoon. No special meaning, I just think it's cute.
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I chose mine because it relates to my name.
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C'mon, just look at it, who wouldn't want it?
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Mine is one of my photos. I love to take photos of graffitti.
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I didn't
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Well I wanted something very individual and this seemed to fit the bill . :) When I find one I like I will change.
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At the moment it's a drawing of someone's head. . . What does it mean to me, I dont know. It means I like head i suppose.
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Because I can.
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She will represent me well. she looks sweet, but look closely at her pixy like face and you will notice there is much more than what meets the eye. A little incongruity.
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This is just what I look like. It's from a particularly good time (my father had come to visit me, back when I lived in Alaska), and it was an especially good shot of me.
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It is my avatar from a 3D chat client. It looks remarkably like me IRL. It should: I spent quite a bit of money getting it to look that way.
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Just went with the name, really.
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The avatar that is a drawing that I made from scratch.
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It seemed to fit my mood, at least half the time (in the "crapper"). My mood is better, but I like the outhouse, so I kept it.
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It's a repair bot. I'm a roboticist and I also like to repair things.
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If I like the picture, I'll use it as an avatar. I have several pictures that I use.
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it's part of my best background i've made so far. and i like whales. and it kind of fits my username.
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i dunno, it was little enough to fit answerbags required size :) .. why did you?
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Because it goes perfectly with my user name:-)
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Because she's hot like me and it says girly girl
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I just thought I'd use a picture of myself for a while. I'll probably change back to the one I used to use when I get fed up of seeing a tiny version of myself.
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It kind of jumped out at me while I was googling for avatar ideas.
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Somebody found it for me. They made me an offer I couldn't refuse. (Sorry, that was poor!)
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It's something I drew in a couple minutes and picked on the spur of the moment, not really expecting to stick around here. :) I kinda wish I'd put more thought into it, but if I changed it now, nobody would recognize me.
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I pick famous people that i feel represent me and my idiology to an extent
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I was born with it! LOL
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I like Ween!
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I like cosmology and astronomy and anything related to stars and galaxies.
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Because uh...I like fluffernutters.
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Since tomorrow is my 365 day anniversary on AB, I changed my avatar back to the original avatar I used.
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The character according to my friends really acts like me and such, also he's quite a cutie if I may say so myself.
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I picked at random
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It clearly shows my occupation and very fitting.
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She is my kindred spirit..except for the dark hair and eyes we resemble each other somewhat and we have the same body type (of course..hers is better..she's a drawing) I am tall and slender.
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It is a picture of me doing something i enjoy and it was one of the only ones far enough away not to frighten the natives.
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u cant read it, but it says "curiouser & curiouser.." which I thought was appropriate given the site, and also describes me .. :)
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because i drew it
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its a pic i took recently while in sth africa and i like the expression
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I think mine's pretty self-explanatory.
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It's a painting of me!
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It's something that actually fit and is semi-recognizable.
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My avatar is a photo of myself. Since someone could possibly recognize me, my avatar reminds me to post Q&A responsibly.
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My current avatar is a picture of myself.
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It - and its predecessor - are the only ones I've ever seen that I like. And even them I'm getting heartily sick of.
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I don't know. It seemed like a good idea at the time :(
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Because it's got blue in it.
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Because it reflects my screen name.
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It's a picture of a dahlia, a mixture of pale purple and white. I love flowers and I love these colours and I believe it is a positive image, both for me and for those who view it.
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cuz it took me forever to size it 64x64 with windows paint(hehehe)... would you do that twice?
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Because it looks like me! lol
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I'm female, and, to me, my avatar is the essence of what femininity should be. Eternally known, her eyes are the window to her soul. Eternally mysterious, hidden behind a fan, you see nothing, but imagine all. Eternally feminine, nothing masculine there. With all the hopes, dreams, and wisdom of ages of womankind looking at you, peeking from behind the innocence of a child.
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Because this is how we AB, I think it is what it would look like if you could see us from your side of the computer.
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I had the idea long ago, thought it was clever, and stuck with it to avoid muddled identity issues.
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Because I like smiles. I'm one of those who'll change Avatars every so often. Just trying different ones out. Had John Havlicek from the Boston Celtics as mine for a few days recently. I'll probably go back to my mountain lion one soon.
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