Why, thanks, Beck!
“ooo, ooo, OOO-OOO-OOO!!” *
*bad attmept at monkey sounds
Holy crap! My advice helped you? Look at me giving tech advise and shit.
( you’re a good monkey!)
Next stop: Rocket Science!
I thought everyone loved the avatars!? I must have read the wrong memo, because the word I got was:
- yes, avatars!
- preferably anime
- definitely giraffes
- an anime girl dressed as a giraffe if you can find such a thing
Am I doing it wrong? I can’t wait 'till they start flashing and moving around. What a time to be alive!
My avatar is the photo I’d already uploaded as a profile pic; I just had to reduce its size in my photo-editing software.
I tried using a different photo of a different cat, a side shot of a full-extension yawn, but it was a dark tabby against a black background – very dramatic in full size but nearly impossible to make out at 50x50, while this avatar works much better, even though it’s a bit blurry.
Besides, this cat is Freddy, one-third of the Eddy, Teddy and Freddy brothers from whom I took my nom de Dope. They’re all gone now, alas, but Freddy lives avatarly on in all his glorious goofiness.
I might need to work on spelling first.
[raises hand, sheepishly]
[rethinks that; raises fist] Rep’aZENT, mofos*!*
So, I don’t have them turned on - - problem solved.
One of the thing I always liked about this board was that I could get into the meat of a topic without being distracted by avatars, sigs, or too many douchebag trolls.
There’s a Mac-oriented board I should check more often, but people there have 300x300 family photos in their sigs. Imagine, in an ongoing discussion, someone like Beck would reply fifty times and you’d have to scroll past this huge point-n-shoot pic of her extended family, with pets, all not-really-wanting-to-be posed in front of some historical plaque… fifty times. Arrrgggh!
Well, okay, maybe when the avatars start being 30-second clips from an anime version of The Princess Bride, with Buttercup in a giraffe onesie…
I like your d. pic. Umm, your avatar picture of a pretty colored lowercase “d”.
Ha, well played. What I really like is that I don’t see it, W00H00*!*
If?* If*? What kind of internet do you think this is?
Can y’all tell what mine is? (To me, the little image looks like a funny face with a zit.)
It’s now my profile pic as well.
Looks like Sherwin-Williams did a number on the moon.
Well, it’s a moon, just not ours.
Sherwin-Williams didn’t do a number on it, but Jupiter is a big bully.
Oh…IO! 
Isn’t it kind of difficult participating in a thread devoted to “shit talking individual avatars” with the avatars turned off?
The loud noise you heard was this board crashing into the 21st century.
I started college as an art major so Tippy the Turtle holds a special place in my heart.
True story: When my son was a kid, he came home having drawn Tippy from the back of some school flier and wanted to send it in. I told him the story of when I had drawn Tippy from the back of some school flier and wanted to mail it in to which my mother told me the story of when she drawn Tippy from the back of some school flier and DID mail it in and then some guy came to the house from the art correspondence school and tried to give my (rather pissed) grandparents some hard sell. So Tippy’s been screwing with my family for three generations.
You say it’s a Warhol thing, but I still can’t tell what it is. Are those fish?
OK, now I see the face. I thought the hair was background color.
I have a feeling I’ve been dissed, I am not sure though.
I promise to never put my extended family in an avatar.
pets? Can’t make that promise.