# (Mis)identify someone else's SDMB avatar **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 21, 2023, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129 "2023-02-21T10:23:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/21 "2023-02-23T16:08:20Z")
> [@solost](#): > > @nelliebly = the avatar is familiar, can’t quite place the name though… Also, @Dr.Strangelove = Peter Sellers from some movie of his. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/22 "2023-02-24T00:32:41Z")
@Charlie_Tan : I don’t know the original source, but the image was used in En Vogue’s music video for “[Free Your Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iQbBbMAFE).” I even started a [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/en-vogues-free-your-mind-video-who-is-on-the-black-and-white-portrait/825702) in 2018 asking where the image in the music video came from. (Keep in mind, this was before Discourse, when the SDMB did not have easily-accessible avatars.) Unfortunately my query was never answered, but maybe **Charlie\_Tan** has an answer! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/23 "2023-02-25T00:59:08Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > It’s a student piece, and a bit of a joke on his part. Drawing skeletons was standard art practice (and still is - my daughter’s doing them in her art classes now). The cigarette, however, is not. I have a little tin dope box with Vincent’s smoking skeleton printed on. I saw it (after having seen the original) in the Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum’s souvenir and art shop as a box of mints for two Euros or so and just couldn’t resist. I guess that around 63 percent of buyers use the box for the same purpose as I do. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/24 "2023-02-25T02:07:38Z")
A Google reverse image search tells me that it is a drawing named [_The Great Yawner_](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/lequeu/great-yawner) by the French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Now for my own attempt at (mis)identification: @Horatius - a cat (or dog?) wearing a fedora and sunglasses, dual-wielding handguns. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/25 "2023-02-25T02:15:53Z")
> [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](#): > > A Google reverse image search tells me that it is a drawing named [_The Great Yawner_](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/lequeu/great-yawner) by the French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Mind blown. I cannot believe that this is a drawing from before 1826, it’s so freaking modern. Looks like the illustration for a Kafka novella. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/26 "2023-02-25T03:25:47Z")
I think Kent Clark’s avatar is reversed. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/27 "2023-02-25T14:28:26Z")
> [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](#): > > Now for my own attempt at (mis)identification: @Horatius - a cat (or dog?) wearing a fedora and sunglasses, dual-wielding handguns. It’s New World Order Kitty. He was the main character in a series of comics I (and a few others) made several years ago. This particular image was from a comic where NWO Kitty was trying to re-brand himself with a “new cool Matrix-type” image. The problem was, posing with his guns like that was really tiring. We made the comics using an online comic generating site that is no longer available. But we got a lot of good stories out of it. [Some are still here](http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80591&page=61). ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/28 "2023-02-25T15:02:28Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > We made the comics using an online comic generating site that is no longer available. Oh, that explains a lot! When I saw your avatar, I immediately noticed its resemblance to _Fekete Macska_, a comic strip by a friend of mine that ran in the free Budapest entertainment magazine _Pesti Est_ back around 2004. I guess you and my friend must have used the same generator. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/29 "2023-02-25T15:35:10Z")
It’s quite possible. I’m pretty sure the site was hosted somewhere in Eastern Europe, and there were quite a few Europeans on the site. I had one fan in Poland, a teenager who did his own kind of surreal comics. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/30 "2023-02-26T16:41:36Z")
Nobody wants to take a crack at my avatar? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/31 "2023-02-26T18:40:12Z")
No one wants to take a crack at mine, either. Such a mystery! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/32 "2023-02-26T19:21:44Z")
It’s a distorted Yoda, isn’t it? (or a Gremlin) No, actually it’s a crab, or so I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/33 "2023-02-26T19:55:08Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > No one wants to take a crack at mine, either. Such a mystery! 😉 ⁢ No one wants to acknowledge your carcinization problem. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/34 "2023-02-27T00:23:22Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No one wants to acknowledge your carcinization problem. Oh, dear. Now I’m even less inclined to come out of my shell. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129/35 "2023-02-27T00:25:36Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Now I’m even less inclined to come out of my shell. I’m sure you can claw your way out! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129.md?page=1)