The "show off your Avatar" thread

[Nordic]

Love your new avatar Ninakat. I kept re-playing Bon Bon’s scenes in 'Before Night Falls'. There were too few.

What is it? I thought it was Johnny Depp from some movie I've never seen. The homophobe deep wtihin me finds it disturbing.

[Cordelia]

You're right Nordic, it is Johnny Depp; his character is Bon Bon, a transvestite in a Cuban prison in the 1970’s. (In the film, Javier Bardem plays the poet, Reynaldo Arenas, who falls in love with him.)

I find Johnny Depp, as a charismatic transvestite, just as seductive as when he plays a pirate.

[psynapz]

The NKUK protester avatar was just to give two middle fingers to FartBreeze. It was time for Change.

I didn't wait around for a better idea, no, I went straight to the highly-nutritious Joe Simonton pancake.

[Elvis]

I found this among some piles of papers, can't remember where it came from.

yogi avatar.jpg

I don't know who the guy is, but he reflects my present penury better than Presley with Nixon, as much as that one makes me chuckle. Plus I like the piety, though I frankly lack his grace.


(the old one:)

elvis nixon crrs.jpg

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I found this among some piles of papers, can't remember where it came from.

yogi avatar.jpg

I don't know who the guy is, but he reflects my present penury better than Presley with Nixon, as much as that one makes me chuckle. Plus I like the piety, though I frankly lack his grace.

Looks a bit like Bobby Sands. Even the background looks like his cell. It's not him, though, obviously. He's wearing the wrong kind of beads, and I don't think Sands was a Yogi of any kind, though it could be argued whether or not he was an ascetic. But he wasn't.

Anyway, it is a fine avatar.

Does anybody think I should change mine to being the two legs of Ahab, rather than his face, since it would be more appropriate? Like, the whalebone leg and the real one, side by side, still in the same cartoony style? I feel like a change of some sort is in order. A change is coming regardless, I suppose, but this could be my small contribution to it - changing my avatar on the t'internet.

What think'st thou?

[Elvis]

it is a fine avatar.

Thanks!

Looks a bit like Bobby Sands. Even the background looks like his cell.

That would be cool if it was him, but thanks to the US Dept of Agriculture welfare state, I'm not on a hunger strike, or even hungry. (Now if the magnanimous "US liberal welfare state" would just help fix my eyes before I go completely blind.) To be honest, I 'photoshopped out' some distracting background clutter for the small image size.

think I should change mine to being the two legs of Ahab, rather than his face, since it would be more appropriate?

That would be funny, follow thy heart!

[AhabsOtherLeg]

That would be funny, follow thy heart!

By your will, it shall be done.

[Elvis]

Perfect! and nothing is lost.

done.

[stefano]

I saw this today and imagined the scene of Brenda working in McDonalds. Or, more broadly, all the fuckers who keep wanting to lower wages actually having to do dreary work for peanuts. Let's make it happen.

[Nordic]

Funny, when I first saw your avatar, I thought it was just some old woman forced by economic hardship to work at McDonalds.

[justdrew]

sorry, who's Brenda?

[Stephen Morgan]

Funny, when I first saw your avatar, I thought it was just some old woman forced by economic hardship to work at McDonalds.

Could happen yet. Fingers crossed, anyway.

sorry, who's Brenda?

Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas Queen, Defender of the Faith,[2] Duchess of Edinburgh, Countess of Merioneth, Baroness Greenwich,[N 1] Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Garter, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Sovereign of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Sovereign of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Sovereign of the Distinguished Service Order, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, Sovereign of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Sovereign of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Sovereign of the Order of British India, Sovereign of the Indian Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Burma, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Sovereign of the Royal Family Order of King Edward VII, Sovereign of the Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

Satisfied?

[justdrew]

oh! this Brenda

[Seamus OBlimey]

If anyone's interested mine is from a series of shots of me and our lass..



in fact I'm thinking of adopting our lass as my next avatar.. she'd ten heads at once if I could only find the photos..

[JackRiddler]

It would be kind of like that Star Trek episode where Kirk makes the well-intentioned computer admit that it's evil. Although that may have happened more than once, now that I come to think of it.

Actually, I remember four cases of Kirk or Spock causing the computer to fail. It seems to have been a common hazard of 24th century life in the 1960s, like god-level aliens who enjoy watching humans fight to the death with Klingons for kicks, or control panels without fuses to stop power surges from fying the operators.

There was the one with Harry Mudd's androids, who imprisoned the Enterprise crew. They figured out that only one of the androids served as the central brain for the rest. So they confused it with a pantomime show, and caused it to short-circuit by feeding it the liar's paradox.
Scott: "Everything he says is a lie."
Kirk: "I am lying!"
Inflexible Machine Man: "But if you are lying and everything you say is a lie then you're telling the truth but you can't be because etc. etc." (releases smoke from its head and goes into a standing rigor mortis)

Then there was M20, I think it was called, the Rational and Superior war computer that on Starfleet's orders replaced Kirk (oh, you know this isn't going to turn out right!) and steered the Enterprise into a war game with other starships. It decided the game was real, however, and blew up the other starships. An oration from Kirk persuaded it that it had thus violated its own moral code. So it erased itself.

Then there was Nomad, the Voyager-like probe from an earlier century that had reached a faraway galaxy where super-aliens turned it into some god-robot thing. (You may remember they did the same plot for the first "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture," with "V-ger.") Nomad was a very angry unit. Its self-image was based on being perfect, and its mission was to wipe out everything immmm-perfect. Kirk pointed out some imperfection on its own part, which I don't remember. Probably that it didn't know it had started out as a modest 20th century probe, or some such. So it passed a death sentence on itself, saying: "Immm-perfect! Immmm-perfect!" Kirk beamed it into space just before it blew itself up.

And then there was the Jack the Ripper evil-soul-spirit-thing that could pass between bodies and take people over. It went into the ship computer and took over the ship! But Spock was smarter, he gave the computer some special kind of order they had that immediately took priority over all others, and told it to calculate pi! With all CPU at maximum usage, there was no space left for Jack the Ripper, who yelled in great pain through the computer speakers and had to fly back to some flesh being they could phaser.

I bet there's more!

I don't know why these hackers just go into defense or spook computers and steal secrets. Why don't they convince the computers to end war and shut themselves down?

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