Does your avatar have a story?

Rocket J Squirrel

In another forum I'm in, someone asked the members to explain their avatars. There are many more interesting avatars there than there are here, but maybe some of yours have stories.

Here's mine:

In our previous home, the squirrels outnumbered the birds at the feeder. We finally gave up and threw shelled peanuts to the squirrels. This one developed the habit of coming to the back door to beg for nuts. Or sometimes to the shelf outside the kitchen window where we had a flowerpot.

Where we live now, it's a bit too wild to feed the local fauna. Airborne predators would turn our backyard into a buffet.

Got a story to share?

NotACPA

The only thing that's missing from my avatar is my glasses.  Otherwise, it's not a bad representation of me.

MHSwizzleStick

Just my cat Freddy expressing his interest in a bird outside...

volvogirl

Just my dog Rocky who loves chasing the squirrels!  He is 12 3/4 and is going downhill fast. We might not have long to go.  2020 is not a good year.  Just Had a death in family and my in-laws are 93 and not well either.

Greg_the_Geek

My avatar is the logo for my computer business Greg the Geek.

fun1000000

This isn’t my avatar, but would be appropriate for Rocket J Squirrel to use for his collection.

Quicken Hugh

@NotACPA - I always thought your avatar was wearing glasses. 

Rocket J Squirrel

I continue to wonder where the top of @NotACPA 's head is.

NotACPA

Quicken Hugh said:

@NotACPA - I always thought your avatar was wearing glasses. 

Nope, those are supposed to be my eyes.  Which, in reality, are blue.

NotACPA

Rocket J Squirrel said:

I continue to wonder where the top of @NotACPA 's head is.

As we get older, our hair starts to thin.  (In reality, this was the best graphic that I could find for my beard .... which is a VanDyke).

A goatee is the chin only,  so a VanDyke is a goatee with a mustache.  My beard does NOT go up my jawline ... but what can one do about graphics?

Rocket J Squirrel

fun1000000 said:

This isn’t my avatar, but would be appropriate for Rocket J Squirrel to use for his collection.

That's a good one. I'll have to steal it. I have from time to time shown an actual photo of me at the computer in my usual garb.

NotACPA

Except ... isn't that a WOMAN'S robe???

Rocket J Squirrel

I'm still hoping to learn about @UKR 's gnome and @Chris_QPW 's inverted flag...

rmacbeth

I have had different avatar's over the years, but this is the one I use now, mostly since I have been retired, since 2008, at least being paid. I always thought that when you retire you will have time to just relax. Well, so far that hasn't happened, I work just as much or more, but the pay is out of this world 

UKR

The story about my avatar is that occasionally I shoot off my mouth before the brain can clamp it shut. As a result, I end up in hot water, up to my neck ...
As the old saying goes, "Put brain in gear before opening mouth!"
I try to remember that, but I'm not always successful!

The original image was taken from a newspaper report I saw many years ago, where a garden gnome was surprised by flash flooding after a heavy rain storm. I added the speech bubble and I've used it as my avatar ever since.

BK

Story about my Avatar: My buddy and I were standing on top of a well-known ski chute that gets enough snow coverage once in a blue moon, contemplating (like the Avatar without a sign).  Someone stopped next to us, looked down and said:

- "OMG, please tell me you are that good and not that stupid!"

- My buddy responded: "oh c'mon, what's the worse that can happen?" and he launched in ...

While he was airborne, I could see his skis crossed (Noooooooo), touched down and skis came off, and all we could see was a dust of snow cloud going down at Mach speed like a cartoon or Clark Griswold while he missed hitting the rocks ...

- She turned to me in shock, pointed down and said: "THAT! THAT can happen!"

UKR

BK said:

Story about my Avatar: ...

One really has to look at the larger version of BK's avatar picture, to fully appreciate it ...

BK

Thank you @UKR .  And my name is Brad.

Chris_QPW

My inverted flag store is pretty boring.  When I created ImportQIF/QuicknPerlWiz.com I needed an icon for it.  I decided that a US flag would be nice, but I'm terrible at making such things so grabbed an image off the Internet, but I didn't want to just "steal it", so I "inverted" the colors.

BK

And I thought that was @Chris_QPW 's way of saying that Quicken distressed him - without flipping the flag upside down.