# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/41 "2024-05-18T18:03:44Z")
I would see a Janus faced cat in @EddyTeddyFreddy avatar though it’d be more fun to see a tri- faced cat! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/42 "2024-05-18T18:26:47Z")
I know @Skywatcher 's avatar is a storm, but I always see it as a helmet, sort of like the one the Mandalorian wears. The lightning bolt is the slit at the front. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/43 "2024-05-19T13:09:35Z")
I do the same, and also confuse @capybara with that guy whose avatar is a capybara. And there’s those candy/jellybean/ball pit avatars that I sometimes take to be the same gal/guy. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/44 "2024-05-20T13:08:02Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I once briefly thought @thorny_locust 's avatar was a red habanero pepper, but in a larger view it’s clearly a strawberry. I do grow both of them; but the habañeros I grow are orange. I took my strawberry avatar from the snopes boards after they died; so it’s kind of a memento. – I don’t usually even try to figure out what’s in avatars, as I so often can’t distinguish what’s in them unless I click on them to enlarge them and sometimes can’t do it then. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/45 "2024-05-20T13:30:28Z")
@John_DiFool’s avatar looks like a guppy to me, but his title, _Rara avis_ gives it away. What specific rare hawk(?) is it? ---
**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 20, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/46 "2024-05-20T13:32:35Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > @John_DiFool’s avatar looks like a guppy to me, but his title, _Rara avis_ gives it away. What specific rare hawk(?) is it Oh wow, it really does look like a guppy. Your photo shows sacred ibis in flight? By the way, one ibis, many… ibis? Ibises? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/47 "2024-05-20T14:20:53Z")
LOL sigh. It’s a diving Peregrine Falcon. Maybe I’ll go back to the other pic I’ve had. Cue Low Resolution Tiny Avatar Syndrome for that one. This specific board does seem to have smaller ones than other boards I know of do. While I’m at it mods, is it possible to make them larger? ---
**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 20, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/48 "2024-05-20T14:22:52Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > What specific rare hawk(?) is it? > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > It’s a diving Peregrine Falcon So not a rare hawk - a very common falcon! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/49 "2024-05-20T15:33:49Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > By the way, one ibis, many… ibis? Ibises? Ibipodes ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/50 "2024-05-20T19:57:18Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Your photo shows sacred ibis in flight? > > By the way, one ibis, many… ibis? Ibises? Not _sacred_ ibis, those are only found in sub-Saharan Africa - oddly not in Egypt. My pic is of white ibis which are very common on the Gulf Coast. Small flocks of 6-8 frequently feed in my yard after a rain. More than one ibis is ibis - like trout or moose, though MWO says ibises is also used. ---
**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 20, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/51 "2024-05-20T20:03:55Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > My pic is of white ibis which are very common on the Gulf Coast. Ah! The heads in shadow looked black to me, but on second glance I can see they are just slightly darker than the wings due to shadows. ---
**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 22, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/52 "2024-05-22T13:22:52Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > LOL sigh. It’s a diving Peregrine Falcon. When I click on your avatar to enlarge it, it’s very easy to see it’s a falcon. Anybody can do that if they’re curious or confused. In any case, what’s wrong with a little bit of mystery? I like your avatar. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/53 "2024-05-22T13:25:14Z")
Which one, the old one or the new one? ---
**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 22, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/54 "2024-05-22T13:28:19Z")
The current one, that I’m looking at right now. Did you recently change it? I thought you had had that one for awhile. In that case, I applaud the update 👏 😊 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/55 "2024-05-22T13:29:50Z")
No, sigh, I changed it when someone said they thought it was a f. fish. ---
**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 22, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/56 "2024-05-22T13:32:05Z")
Oh, your current icon is not a largemouth bass leaping out of the water? Haha. That might have been funnier if I had not already said I could clearly see it was a falcon. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/57 "2024-06-08T04:01:37Z")
@Odesio’s new avatar is always parsed by me as some Tzeentchian mutant goat’s head, _even though I have determined it’s a beholder_. Every time I see it my brain just labels it as _screaming pink goat_. Brains are weird. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/58 "2024-06-08T04:54:45Z")
And now I’m always going to see it as a screaming pink goat too. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/59 "2024-06-08T14:16:42Z")
Well, you’re not always going to see it that way. Only until it gets a good look at you. And then you’re not going to be seeing it in any way. Nor anything else. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578/60 "2024-06-12T15:44:04Z")
I just took a closer look at @Rebo 's avatar. I think it is supposed to be a hobo-style clown with a yellow face, an orange nose, black sideburns and goatee, an orange chin, and a yellow cigar in one corner of its mouth. My brain wants to see a small person standing in front of the clown’s face, its back turned to the viewer. The person has a yellow body, orange hair and shoes, and a bushy tail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misinterpreted-avatars/1001578.md?page=4)