Why did you pick your avatar?

Not sure if this has been done yet but...

I have noticed alot of peoples avatars and names are very unique. So I was wondering why did you pick that avatar and name? What does it represent, what movie is if from. Explain...Curious minds want to know :)

Well my avatar is a picture of myself, I picked it because I like it and my name is Janine so I figured thats what I would use, pretty boring I guess.

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Permalink Reply by Slappy on June 17, 2008 at 6:41am: I saw it and knew it fit me, not any movie or anything, just surfing images on photobucket one day. Slappy is a nickname from the Navy.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Janine on June 17, 2008 at 10:51am: Im alittle afraid to ask why your nickname is slappy..lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Slappy on June 17, 2008 at 11:22am: Honestly don't know, I went to a party that had being going on for a while and this drunk guy says I will call you Slappy and unfortunately one of those that never let's things drop was there and made sure forever after that the name stuck. No I don't know why he decided Slappy over anything else but yeah that was it, he appointed and she made sure it stuck. So honestly no one really knows why that was the nickname of choice including the person that picked it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by 2McAbre on June 17, 2008 at 6:54am: Well my picture and screen name define my life's philosophy.

My picture is "just me". As Popeye would say "I yam whats I yam and that's all thats I yam." What you see is what you get.

My screen name is part reverence for Elvira (Too Macabre) and part that as a realist I do indeed find that life is too macabre, bizarre and gruesome, even in its happy moments you can find something macabre in it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RaisedByWolves on June 17, 2008 at 6:57am: My picture is of myself and I love wolves so my SNs vary on different websites related to wolves. Like here it's RaisedByWolves, on other sites it's SpiritOfTheWolf, and others have different variations. Wolves are my favorite animal. The tattoo you see on my shoulder is the silhouette of a wolf howling at the moon.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by bjm6971 on June 17, 2008 at 6:58am: I designed my avatar using Hero Machine. And for the record I was the first to do so. I enjoy fantasy movies with barbarian sword fighting such as Conan and He-man, which is why I designed my avatar the way I did.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by BuBBa on June 17, 2008 at 7:16am: Well my avatar has been cartooned and is a picture of me performing live at a gig in Chicago so I guess you can say my avatar is really me and the name although not my given name I have had it since i was 16 and still use it to this day.It really fits who I am I guess; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by BoxyBrown on June 17, 2008 at 7:40am: Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of my favorite shows. Mostly because each episode is the length of my attention span. One of the characters, Meatwad, has an imaginary friend made from a cardboard box named...Boxy Brown. Also a nod to a blaxploitation film. A genre that I also love.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JWnPooh on June 17, 2008 at 7:47am: My identity is really my name and Winnie the Pooh. I have loved Pooh forever and people just automatcially call me Pooh rather than JW.

My avatar is John Creighton from Farscape. The best Sci-Fi TV show of all time.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by 2McAbre on June 17, 2008 at 7:53am: A big YES! and Two Thumbs up to Farscape! I loved it more then Star Trek and Star Wars combined!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by PitbullChick on June 17, 2008 at 8:27am: Great question! I was wondering about everyone's choice of avatar's myself.

Mine is a picture of my baby, Lily, taken when she was 5 weeks of age. Yeah, I'm a bitch, but not in the canine sense, though I do bite on occasion.

She turned 10 this past March 2 and still my best bud. Here's a recent pict of her sticking her tongue out at me lounging on my papasan chair. Hard life, eh?; ▶ Reply to This