# Misinterpreted avatars **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578 "2024-05-14T22:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/21 "2024-05-15T18:10:42Z")
I noticed that too. I considered changing mine but you you beat me to it. I do appreciate that. Sometimes being courteous is a real cool hand! ;~) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/22 "2024-05-15T18:32:13Z")
^Very cool. Meanwhile, lots of people think my avatar is beer related, probably due to viewing on a phone’s small screen. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/23 "2024-05-15T18:43:53Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > due to viewing on a phone’s small screen. Or a computer’s large screen?? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/24 "2024-05-15T18:44:44Z")
It’s not so much misinterpreted honestly, but insufficiently clear: @Broomstick . > **[@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broomstick/summary)** I mean, it’s pretty pixelated, my brain generally interpreted it as a pilot in a open cockpit airplane with part of a yellow wing above, but I could be totally wrong. Or maybe it’s a cubist interpretation of something else entirely! ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/25 "2024-05-15T21:08:37Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I noticed that too. I considered changing mine but you you beat me to it. And previously, @Left_Hand_of_Dorkness had the same avatar, but yours and his faced opposite directions. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/26 "2024-05-15T21:27:27Z")
I changed mine once others were using it, found my current “cool hand” icon. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/27 "2024-05-15T23:18:17Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Meanwhile, lots of people think my avatar is beer related, probably due to viewing on a phone’s small screen. Clearly a Saturn V rocket to my eyes. “There will come a day when youth will pass away…” I prefer the Louis Prima version! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/28 "2024-05-15T23:22:00Z")
I see @Babale 's avatar as a man’s face yeah, i know it’s an antelope, and i see that if i look closely. But the top part looks like hair and the bottom like a beard to me. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/29 "2024-05-15T23:26:21Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > It’s not so much misinterpreted honestly, but insufficiently clear: @Broomstick . > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broomstick/summary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broomstick/summary) > > I mean, it’s pretty pixelated, my brain generally interpreted it as a pilot in a open cockpit airplane with part of a yellow wing above, but I could be totally wrong. > > Or maybe it’s a cubist interpretation of something else entirely! It’s me sitting in the cockpit of a 1942 Stearman biplane shortly before take-off. That is, indeed, a yellow upper wing. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/30 "2024-05-16T00:03:34Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I see @Babale 's avatar as a man’s face yeah, i know it’s an antelope, and i see that if i look closely. But the top part looks like hair and the bottom like a beard to me. Well, the bottom _does_ have a beard. And it’s a noble Nubian Ibex, not an antelope 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/31 "2024-05-16T00:28:16Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > > [@mbh](#): > > > > What avatars have confused you? > > Many of us appreciate Northern Piper’s mosquito. Mosquito? I thought that was a mutant hummingbird! 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/32 "2024-05-16T00:34:15Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Meanwhile, lots of people think my avatar is beer related, probably due to viewing on a phone’s small screen. I always assumed it was frothy iced tea, the kind frequently served at all those breweries you’re always visiting! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/33 "2024-05-16T01:10:57Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > “There will come a day when youth will pass away…” > I prefer the Louis Prima version! Love Louis Prima, but a local musician who is a good friend does a cover that brings tears to people’s eyes. Singer had a full, rich youth but is now looking back with sad envy for what he once had, knowing it’s gone forever. He slows it way down, adding all kinds of melancholy. Usually the last song of the night. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/34 "2024-05-16T01:44:24Z")
The antelope’s beard is a shock of hair on the back of the man’s head. Or the ibex’s, i guess. I nearly wrote “goat” the first time, and then thought, hmm, that’s not quite right for a goat, it must be some kind of antelope. But i guess it actually is a kind of goat. The tip of the horn is the eye, the brown splotch behind it is the hair on the front of the face, and the bottom of the nose is… I’m not sure if that’s the back of the goat or something in the stone wall behind it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/35 "2024-05-16T02:23:46Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > No, it’s his hummingbird. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > _Cyborg_ hummingbird Great minds… ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/36 "2024-05-16T03:39:49Z")
That’s just cruel. Now I want to hear it. Have him throw it up on YouTube! ---
**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:** [May 16, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/37 "2024-05-16T06:36:34Z")
I usually find these more complicated avatars easier to read if they have the background removed. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/38 "2024-05-16T12:14:41Z")
I once briefly thought @thorny_locust 's avatar was a red habanero pepper, but in a larger view it’s clearly a strawberry. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/39 "2024-05-18T17:17:57Z")
I’ve been wondering for ages: is the avatar of @BobLibDem a collection of strange sea monsters, or a bizarre map of Michigan? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/40 "2024-05-18T17:25:05Z")
It’s a bizarre map of Michigan with a Spartan (MSU) helmet replacing the lower peninsula. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578.md?page=3)