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05-01-2017, 12:09 PM
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#81
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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I think it would be so cool if you found an avatar that you like. Looking forward to it! This was the only image that I found of Queen Meadbh, but I don't know if it is what you had in mind.
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05-01-2017, 02:20 PM
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#82
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 13,227
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I doubt I'll change mine because I don't feel like bothering, and I do kind of like consistent avatars, but I find it ironic that the request comes from someone who has changed his in the past, and also has a misleading avatar showing someone of the other gender.
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05-01-2017, 10:25 PM
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#83
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Syracuse
Posts: 3,502
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Originally Posted by audreyh1
Ha! I changed my avatar once because everyone was doing Xmas avatars. But then I just left it! I'm afraid I can't be bothered.
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I thought it was a butterfly.
Now that I'm retired I love to watch the butterflies flutter by.
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05-02-2017, 05:32 AM
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#84
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,292
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RunningBum
I doubt I'll change mine because I don't feel like bothering, and I do kind of like consistent avatars, but I find it ironic that the request comes from someone who has changed his in the past, and also has a misleading avatar showing someone of the other gender.
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So I take it you're a bear?
It was tongue in cheek. And I haven't changed as often as some do. 
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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05-02-2017, 01:55 PM
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#85
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
Posts: 7,677
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At first I suspected you were a cross-dresser! Now I am suspicious of a transgender? 
After this thread, I am convinced there are 2 kinds of posters: Fixed/no avatar and ever changing avatars. And there seems to be no crossings between them.
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05-02-2017, 03:45 PM
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#86
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 17,774
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I'm not a visual person and although I enjoy seeing the avatars, I don't really connect them with the users--it's the user name I know, and I'm not even that good at remembering a lot of who's who by name. So change at will imo--I love the variety of what people come up with, and that's why I like to change mine occasionally too.
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05-02-2017, 04:40 PM
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#87
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2011
Location: St. Paul
Posts: 1,847
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For a very long time after I joined this forum, I thought Midpack and W2R were stunning young women. The power of avatars is such that I still think of them as stunning young women.
It is delightfully confusing when someone's name or avatar suggests a woman and then you find out the poster is a man, or vice versa.
I think I'll get me an avatar...
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05-02-2017, 05:00 PM
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#88
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 649
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Hankster - Sporting the same silly avatar since 2008
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05-02-2017, 05:06 PM
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#89
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,292
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marita40
For a very long time after I joined this forum, I thought Midpack and W2R were stunning young women. The power of avatars is such that I still think of them as stunning young women.
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It could all be true.
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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05-02-2017, 05:10 PM
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#90
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2011
Location: St. Paul
Posts: 1,847
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I now have an avatar! Kind of boring, but my favorite two simple pleasures: coffee and a good book or two.
(On the other hand, I think it may look like a "dream of genie" apparition arising from a stack of books. Oh well, first try)
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05-02-2017, 05:14 PM
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#91
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 23,035
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I have a standard roster of avatars and rotate through them. Now my avatar matches my name, so you won't get confused (at least until I change again).
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Living an analog life in the Digital Age.
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05-02-2017, 05:16 PM
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#92
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Acworth
Posts: 1,214
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I changed my avatar this week! Of course, since I didn't have an avatar on this forum at all before this, it's probably not going to cause anyone major confusion...
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05-02-2017, 05:18 PM
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#93
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,498
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Marita40
For a very long time after I joined this forum, I thought Midpack and W2R were stunning young women. The power of avatars is such that I still think of them as stunning young women.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
It could all be true.
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Marita, thank you! Love your new avatar, too. 
In reality, you might be stunned if you saw me, that's for sure. I'm a 68 year old woman, very tall with ice blue eyes, pale skin, and big bone structure. The latter is probably due to my Scottish ancestry; they're the ones that think it is great fun to toss big poles sort of like telephone poles around just for a lark, I understand. Anyway, unfortunately I am also very obese, despite herculean efforts, plus I have white hair and definitely look my age. I get people's attention when I walk in a room, but not for the same reasons that Eva Habermann might. She was the actress/model of my old avatar.
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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05-02-2017, 05:32 PM
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#94
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 6,506
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Can't seem to find a good enough reason to change my avatar. Besides doing it might resemble w*rk.
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05-02-2017, 05:57 PM
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#95
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,292
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You're welcome - see all the new and first time avatars this thread has produced! 
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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05-02-2017, 06:09 PM
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#96
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
It could all be true.
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"You've got your mother in a whirl
She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl"
David Bowie, Rebel Rebel
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The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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05-03-2017, 09:26 AM
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#97
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Southern Cal
Posts: 4,032
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I changed my avatar again. Next time it will be a picture of some vegs or fruits from my garden.
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05-03-2017, 10:23 AM
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#98
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Orlando, Fl
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I chose my silver moon just because I think it's lovely. No plans to change it.
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05-03-2017, 11:34 AM
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#99
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
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Just changed mine to a sailboat off Key West at sunset
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05-03-2017, 04:11 PM
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#100
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Houston
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This thread got me to thinking. I haven't had an avatar, just too lazy to make one I suppose. Decided to be bold and quit hiding behind the annonymity of the internet ... so I just used a recent photo after I got my hair done.
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