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Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:16 pm
by philip964
I am lazy.
I could use the one from Corvette Forum, some here might recognize a '63 ZO6 brake master cylinder. But then its an avatar.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:56 pm
by Oldgringo
What is an avatar?
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 7:00 am
by jmra
Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
It's that horse head above your name.

Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:08 am
by The Annoyed Man
jmra wrote:Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
It's that horse head
above your name.

It's
BELOW his name.
So's your's by the way. Are you reading this while standing on your head?

Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 8:37 am
by Abraham
The reasons are legion for NOT placing your photo on the internet, security being one.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:26 am
by Jim Beaux
Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
It's a stringed instrument from India......

Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:36 am
by jmra
The Annoyed Man wrote:jmra wrote:Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
It's that horse head
above your name.

It's
BELOW his name.
Screen Shot 2014-08-23 at 8.06.00 AM.png
So's your's by the way. Are you reading this while standing on your head?

Looks different on my iphone. Everything is reversed from what you posted.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:38 am
by suthdj
jmra wrote:Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
It's that horse head above your name.

OMG all these years I never looked at it close, I always thought it was a hog.

Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:40 am
by Pawpaw
The Annoyed Man wrote:jmra wrote:Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
It's that horse head
above your name.

It's
BELOW his name.
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So's your's by the way. Are you reading this while standing on your head?

Apparently you are.

Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:36 am
by Seburiel
Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
An Airbender?
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:41 am
by jmra
Pawpaw wrote:The Annoyed Man wrote:jmra wrote:Oldgringo wrote:What is an avatar?
It's that horse head
above your name.

It's
BELOW his name.
Screen Shot 2014-08-23 at 8.06.00 AM.png
So's your's by the way. Are you reading this while standing on your head?

Apparently you are.

That's the way mine looks.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:50 am
by Abraham
I not only don't have an avatar, I don't care to see anyone else's, so I have that feature turned off.
Plus, I have zero interest in other people's home brewed philosophy or some famous quote or other.
The one quote from Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), stage name: John Wayne
“I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
Lots of people post this corn ball quote which I sincerely doubt came directly from the actor John Wayne, but was written by some anonymous screen writer.
Whenever I read this cornpone as someone's adopted philosophy, I just laugh.
If you absolutely insist on posting something as your doctrine try not embarrass yourself by using a movie quote.
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:02 pm
by Keith B
Abraham wrote:I not only don't have an avatar, I don't care to see anyone else's, so I have that feature turned off.
Plus, I have zero interest in other people's home brewed philosophy or some famous quote or other.
The one quote from Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), stage name: John Wayne
“I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
Lots of people post this corn ball quote which I sincerely doubt came directly from the actor John Wayne, but was written by some anonymous screen writer.
Whenever I read this cornpone as someone's adopted philosophy, I just laugh.
If you absolutely insist on posting something as your doctrine try not embarrass yourself by using a movie quote.
Then why do you even get on the Internet?
Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:04 pm
by RPBrown
I was in my avatar but fell off somewhere on the road

Re: Why do so many post avatars?
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 1:18 pm
by Abraham
Keith,
Perhaps I wasn't clear.
Avatars and quotes personal or plagiarized don't make up the entirety of the internet.
Right?