Have I met your avatar??

[skooooo]

Sometimes I see avatars (or those little icons we pick for ourselves) that I don't recognize. Some of these are famous people, that I feel I should know.

Here's your chance to respond to a thread just so we can see your avatar. If I don't know who it is, now's my chance to ask in a forum where I won't look completely ignorant!

What do you say?

[fizzgig]

1. i love my avvie

i still have that doll, too :D

[skooooo]

3. Don't know it..

..but I like the animated gif.

Ok, who's your avvie?

[fizzgig]

12. it's red fraggle

she was a character from one of my favorite childhood shows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock

[Lethe]

66. red was cool

teh fraggles were cool in general.

the doozers, bah. too much work.

i heard that when a doozer refuses to take the doozer creed and refuses to work, they turn into a fraggle

[Haole Girl]

2. Do you know what kind of flower is in my avatar?

:hi:

[skooooo]

4. honeysuckle?

[Haole Girl]

7. Plumeria

But it does sort of look like honeysuckle when it's reduced in size! :hi:

[Xipe Totec]

45. I love plumerias

Haven't seen one in a yard since I moved out of South Texas.

[lavenderdiva]

5. please meet Norma Shearer

I think she is one of the most beautiful 'Classic Film' actresses, and one of the most talented too! love, love, love 'The Women'-

[skooooo]

8. thanks....

Don't know her, but now I know the name.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. I doubt you recognize my peeps in my avvie

Then, again, these guys have been in the news, on the teevee, and seen elsewhere occasionally... :P


(And a special THANKS! Again! to CMW for creating this avatar for me several years ago.
I will never change it because it's that special to me! :hi: :loveya: :pals: )

[skooooo]

9. Nope....are they...

the Jonas brothers??

:eyes:

lol

[tekisui]

10. Have you met Thich Nhat Hahn?

[skooooo]

11. Nope, do tell!

:-)

[tekisui]

15. One of my favorite Buddhist writers.

He is a Vietnamese Zen Master. He writes simply and beautifully about the experience of life. Here is a poem from him.

Call Me by My True Names

Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.

Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
loving.

I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my
people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
walks of life.
My pain if like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh

[skooooo]

16. Thanks..

..at least he's not one of those unruly, violent Tibetan monks. (joke)

I'm going to have to think about his poem though...it's Deep.

[mopinko]

91. peace is every step nt

[johnnie]

13. Only spiritually

[skooooo]

14. Alfred E. Newman

Probably people under 40 don't even know this guy anymore.....sad.

[Ptah]

17. I don't recognize yours.

Mine is a sonflower.

[skooooo]

18. Really?

Ever hear of a 19th century theorist named Karl Marx?

[Ptah]

19. OK I knew it was a historical person. Thanks.

[hippywife]

20. If you've met mine, you are very fortunate.

I've met him twice and he's totally awesome. :hi:

[skooooo]

21. You met Ghandi!!

LOL..of course I know you mean Kucinich.

[hippywife]

25. I would have also been extremely

fortunate if that were true, because he was totally awesome, too! There is definitely a common thread that runs through the people I look up to.

:hi:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

64. Both my grandparents did see Gandhi

On their own, before they met each other

[skooooo]

71. Now that's something!

What an incredible opportunity. What was going on at the time they met him?

[Canuckistanian]

22. Mr. Natural

Mr. Natural (Fred Natural) is a comic book character created and drawn by the 1960s counter culture and underground comix artist Robert Crumb. The character first appeared in the first issue of Yarrowstalks (May 5, 1967 issue).

At first appearance, he is a mystic guru who spouts aphorisms on the evils of the modern world and the salvation to be found in mysticism and natural living. He has renounced the material world and lives off anything he can get in exchange for his nuggets of wisdom.

Usually depicted as slightly overweight (although his size varies), he is bald, has a long white beard, and wears a gown which makes him resemble the Old Testament God or a prophet.

[skooooo]

23. He was all over the place in the 70s..

I remember him. I had a tshirt with him on it...Keep on Truckin'. Now you can't find that image w/the Keep on Truckin slogan anywhere. Go figure.

[Canuckistanian]

31. I knew that picture even before I knew who Robert Crumb was

[quakerboy]

37. Yes you can

5th one down

http://www.rcrumb.com/apparel.html

[skooooo]

46. awesome...I'm all over that

I loved that old T back in the day, and will soon have another one.

Thanks.

[Call Me Wesley]

24. I love your Santa avatar.

Really. ;)

[HopeHoops]

26. I am the Lorax - I speak for the trees!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. My dear skooooo!

My avatar is just one of the "normal" DU ones...

But it's important to me, since I'm all about the heart...

:hug:

[skooooo]

32. California Peggy --

I wish I was as kind as you. I'm a cynical little rat fink and cannot aspire to your patience and kindness.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Ah, thank you, sweetie...

I can be very rude and snarky, but normally I'm not.

I've been on the other side of this and I know how it feels...

I want my friends to be happy! This is how I help them get there...

:hug:

[AwakeAtLast]

28. I'm sure you have

Dr. Seuss's birthday was March 3rd, also known as Read Across America Day.

[Lucian]

29. Wolf howling.

[no name no slogan]

30. Avatars suck

mine just proves it.

[skooooo]

33. why do you subject us...

...to that nasty man's face? Why do you hate us so?

[no name no slogan]

47. Why do you subject us to yours?

Bakunin > Marx

[skooooo]

51. Bakunin?

huh?

Marx = one of the top 3 or 4 theorists in the last 200 years...up there with Darwin and Einstein. I think that pretty much justifies it!

[no name no slogan]

54. Not quite

Marx was a hack whose greatest work was to grab strains of socialist thought that was floating around for the previous decades and claim it as his own. Not to mention he was a statist and opposed syndicalistic anarchistic socialism.

[skooooo]

56. Professor Know it all..

Well, if you're right, my hat's off. I'll wallow in my ignorance I guess.

[no name no slogan]

57. Sorry. I was a political science major

with a concentration in political theory, so I got to read plenty of political philosophy. Let's just say the legend around ALL major political thinkers is usually much greater than what they actually did.

[skooooo]

58. Well...think if him as a symbol maybe..

...the truth is never simple.

Did you ever read Woycheck by Georg Buchner?

[no name no slogan]

60. Good point. He is definitely a symbol and he gets more right than wrong

And even though I don't agree with him political solutions, his economic analysis still holds up really well.

I'll have to check out Woycheck. I haven't read that before. Thanks for the tip! :thumbsup:

[skooooo]

61. You need to understand the importance of this work..

...he predated Marx. Here..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woyzeck

[no name no slogan]

70. Ohhh, I know it now. I've seen the Herzog movie version (1979)

It's not the same thing of course. I will definitely have to read the play. Thanks!

[DarkTirade]

35. What is my avatar right now?

:P

*edit* Oh yeah. The tattoo/symbol from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I wanted something to represent GLBT, but something with personal meaning to me and without being overtly pink and triangle-y. :)

[Bryn]

36. Florida White Ibis

I used to live close to the Everglades. Ibis would often come to my backyard. They're awesome!

[KitchenWitch]

38. I just changed my avatar back to a pic of the late Kirby Puckett

He was in essence, the face of the Twins for better than a decade.





edited because I suck at spelling.

[skooooo]

48. How'd he die?

[KitchenWitch]

72. He died of a hemorrhagic stroke at the age of 45.

His career was cut short by severe glaucoma at the age of 35.

[Heidi]

39. I've had the same avatar since I joined DU five years ago. It's a scan of my face,

with a "2 cents" added on to mean that anything I post is merely my opinion and nothing more.

Here's the original scan.

[ghostsofgiants]

63. I always thought it was a painting of some dude wearing fancy feather earrings.

The right side looks like part of a mustache.

[Ivan Sputnik]

40. Jack somebody

The quote is from him too.

[KathieG]

41. My avatar is me.

:hi:

[mwooldri]

108. Maybe I need to get creative with my avatar.

Union flag for me since I left NC A&T - I had their logo as my avatar at one time.

Maybe I will get creative. But you've certainly seen the avatar at some point elsewhere.

Mark.

[Spacemom]

42. Mine is my little dog

His name is Bear.

Here he is in all his 4 pounds of glory. (along with our other baby, Shadow):D

[Sky Masterson]

43. Marlon Brando portraying Sky Masterson

In the 1955 movie adaptation of Guys and Dolls

[Xipe Totec]

44. Mine's a little unorthodox

in these circles.

[skooooo]

49. I've seen that...what is it??

Care to explain?

[Xipe Totec]

50. Calzontzin

Supermacho, Barefoot free balling indian sage, wrapped in an electric blanket.



It's especially funny in Spanish where Calzontzin, sounded out loud is "calzon sin" meaning "without underwear".

But also, Calzontzin, was a Purépecha prince in the time of the Aztecs.


The author of this character is Eduardo del Río (Rius), who wrote Marx for Beginners:

http://www.grovel.org.uk/reviews/marx01/marx01.htm

[libodem]

52. You must know Master Shake

Meatwad and Frylock? They are from the cartoon, Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They are so randomly obnoxious that I love them.

[skooooo]

53. Of course ..they are awesome..

My favorite episode was when they hired a witch doctor off of the Internet to bring back one of the characters. Did you see that one? I forget the exact details.

[libodem]

55. Glad you approve

I have to chuckle that I am in the company of Zen Masters, Ghandi, and Karl Marx.

[charlie and algernon]

59. I've got Mrs. Silence Dogood

[skooooo]

74. nah that's Benjamine Franklin..

Can't fool me.

[ghostsofgiants]

62. My star expired, so I don't have one anymore but it was this...

http://atanasio.deviantart.com/art/id-2007-2-66671965

[Haole Girl]

67. Oh, I wish I could buy you a star

But I think hubby would kill me if he saw anymore charges to DU on our paypal account. :-(

[ghostsofgiants]

69. Haha, I appreciate the thought at least.

:)

[mwooldri]

109. Hmmm your avatar looks just fine to me.

:hug:

[ghostsofgiants]

111. Woot!

:D

(If it was you, thanks! If not, thanks to whoever starred me!)

[RFKHumphreyObama]

65. I'd be very concerned if you didn't know whom mine was

And I'm not sure whether you've met him but I sure would like to meet him

[skooooo]

75. um um let me guess!

That's our new smart President. Thank god.

[GreenPartyVoter]

68. Mine is my mom. :^) You probably never met her but if you had you

would have liked her very much.

[skooooo]

76. awww sweet

[In_The_Wind]

73. You probably haven't met mine.

I never gave her a name she may be replaced with a new avatar later this year.

[swag]

77. William Burroughs

[skooooo]

80. ...a very strange man....

Have a lot of respect for him, but never could get into his literature much.

[swag]

87. Didn't your avatar used to be Blonde on Blonde era Dylan?

[skooooo]

88. oh my gosh...you're the first person..

...who's ever even remembered me on here. At least that's how it feels sometimes.

Yes, you're right. I love Dylan.

[swag]

100. That's funny.

I remember you from, what, 2002, 2003?

You always seemed much more reasonable than me.

[skooooo]

104. Thanks....

...I try. Sometimes people misread me because I have a dry sense of humor and use sarcasm.

Nice to be remembered. Yeah, i got on here before protesting at the RNC convention in New york.

Long time ago now.

[nomorenomore08]

78. You probably haven't met mine - he died in 1924 and never visited the States.

But he also wrote some of the most amazingly visionary, influential fiction of the past century. :-)

[skooooo]

79. Oh pullleeeeze..

I majored in German Lit!!

[mopinko]

81. my avatar is my alter ego

it is taken from a painting that i did many years ago. most of my paintings are warm and fuzzy, but this mean little fellow just popped out one day, and he stood out right away. it is one of my favorite ever.
he is my logo. he is the mascot of the whole button thing i do, but he is also on things like my business card, and i have him tattooed on my arm. (my only tattoo)

[skooooo]

82. you're scaring me

:scared:

[mopinko]

90. did i say the original painting

is 4' x 4'? it hangs just inside my front door.

[Pool Hall Ace]

83. Oh my gosh, I am so embarassed.

I thought that was Frederick Douglass. :blush:

[skooooo]

86. Almost understandable..

...such a small pic, they do have some similarity with all the bushy facial hair.

[Pool Hall Ace]

92. So I just changed my avatar to Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist, women's suffragist, speaker, and, like me, a native of Maryland! :)

[BarenakedLady]

84. Lady Godiva

The original bare naked lady. :)

[annabanana]

85. This is, of course, Alice. .

dealing with a recalcitrant flamingo, her croquet mallet.

[Jamastiene]

89. If you've played Runescape, you might have

met my avatar. It's my main character from the game. He's got long black hair now as a tribute to Joey Ramone. First, I had it sort of medium length and black, then I went blond, then I grew it out and left it blond. When I decided to go for 99 Agility, I decided to dye it black and leave it long as a tribute for Joey Ramone. I have no real reason why. I just wanted to do that.

So, my avatar is my main character from Runescape.

[mth44sc]

93. Here is one ya likely haven't met

which was taken from this...

[skooooo]

95. what the heck is that??!

[mth44sc]

97. a stick

sticking out of a lake

[skooooo]

98. it looked like something..

...flying through the air! Strange.

[coffeenap]

94. Mine is the famous, wonderful, loving, dear friend to many,

Andy Stephenson. Did you ever get to meet him? He was a gem among priceless gems! My son and I miss him and think of him often. One of the last things he said to me was that he wanted to be remembered--I promised him, and, here he is and here he will stay!:hug:

[skooooo]

96. I remember threads about Andy..

...I think I missed out while things were going on..or didn't follow it. But I remember, yes.

[Skittles]

99. never had an avatar

never will

[UndertheOcean]

101. Not my avator , but my sig pic

One of the most subconsciously spiritual people in the world. do you know who is it ?

[Ava]

102. mine would be me

because i'm just soooo original :rofl:

[Arkansas Granny]

103. I don't know? Have you ever visitied Arkansas?

[RushIsRot]

105. You couldn't have met mine. He's been dead since 1862.

Henry David Thoreau - my favorite author.

[flvegan]

106. Dunno. You tell me.

[skooooo]

110. The aliens come at night.....

...and yes, I have met your avatar.

[UrbScotty]

107. Random :-)