Stump me with your avatarl

Thread Games
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Post in here and I will try to explain your avatar.

Nothing super deep here, it’s just going to be naming it pretty much, providing I know what it is. So if your Avatar is of a person, I will try to name the person. If it’s a character, I will name the character, if it’s a place, I will tell you the place, if it’s an animal, I will tell you the animal. If it’s a painting, I will tell you the painting. It doesn’t matter what it is, I will attempt to explain it the best I can.

Now obviously I won’t know everything because I don’t know every person in the world and I don’t know every painting and I don’t know every place, etc….

So if I don’t know, then I will just say I don’t know. In some cases I may make a guess, however, based on logic and reasoning.

I will not reverse image search any photo, though, or look it up. I’m just going to go with looking at your avatar and making my best guess.

I did, however, over the last couple days, keep an eye on some of the avatars that I’ve seen when opening up and reading certain threads, just to see how many of them I could identify. There were a ton that I knew, in fact I seemed to know more than I did not. So I thought I might give a run with this topic.

There are times when I might give an answer but it might not be a very specific answer. There were other times when I saw an avatar and I knew of some facts about it (for example, there’s somebody on this board with an avatar that includes a flag of a country, I know it’s the flag of a country but I couldn’t tell you what country it is)…so in those cases I will just give you as much information as I know.

Once I say I don’t know though, you are free to tell me if you want or you can have other people in this thread guess to see if they know who it is or what it is or where it is.

Also, some people don’t have avatars, they have these letters that are colored, if you have a letter that is colored, obviously I can’t really do anything for you, other than just say what letter it is. Obviously.

There are a couple avatars I’ve seen in the threads in the last few days that I hope are posters who don’t ever Post in this thread, one in particular specifically, because I have no idea what their avatar is of. We shall see.

Something tells me in doing this I will probably colossally fail now because the only people that are going to be posting in here are probably people who are fairly sure that they have a pretty good chance of me not knowing what their Avatar is of. For example, there’s somebody on this board with an avatar of Alfred e Newman. I can bet you dollars to donuts that person is not going to be posting in here seriously asking and wondering if I will know what their Avatar is. Instead I’m going to get all the ones that I don’t know because people are going to think “I bet you mine will stump him”.

But either way, I feel it would be a fun exercise.

Go.

What were you THINKING?
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Hey there

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Here’s mine (I don’t think this is a difficult one to guess at all…I know others have identified it). It’s just not quite super-obvious.

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Self evident.

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I have no idea. It looks like a character from a movie. I couldn’t even tell you the actor although if I had to guess it would be that Miguel guy who died not too long ago who was also in The Stand miniseries and RoboCop. It kind of looks like him but I don’t think it is him. I don’t know otherwise.

Before I opened up your profile and had a close-up look, I thought maybe it was Woody Harrelsons character in Natural Born Killers, but upon closer inspection it looks nothing like him.

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Coppertone suntan lotion?

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A Becks beer bottle cap?

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Here’s an easy one for you.

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So, yeah!

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It’s a cat with a chalkboard that says “Heave the Cat”

Beyond that, if it is a specific reference to something, I don’t know what it is.

I kind of suspect there is a more specific reference there, but technically I did identify what it is. :wink:

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It looks like it’s a pair of visor sunglasses.

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Hunter S. Thompson

Known for “Gonzo” journalism. Also, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Quite the character (and, honestly, a real jerk).

Here’s a letter he wrote to Anthony Burgess (the guy who wrote “A Clockwork Orange”):

Dear Mr. Burgess,

Herr Wenner has forwarded your useless letter from Rome to the National Affairs Desk for my examination and/or reply.

Unfortunately, we have no International Gibberish Desk, or it would have ended up there.

What kind of lame, half-mad bullshit are you trying to sneak over on us? When Rolling Stone asks for “a thinkpiece”, goddamnit, we want a fucking Thinkpiece… and don’t try to weasel out with any of your limey bullshit about a “50,000 word novella about the condition humaine, etc…”

Do you take us for a gang of brainless lizards? Rich hoodlums? Dilettante thugs?

You lazy cocksucker. I want that Thinkpiece on my desk by Labor Day. And I want it ready for press. The time has come & gone when cheapjack scum like you can get away with the kind of scams you got rich from in the past.

Get your worthless ass out of the piazza and back to the typewriter. Your type is a dime a dozen around here, Burgess, and I’m fucked if I’m going to stand for it any longer.

Sincerely,

Hunter S Thompson - SOURCE

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Close .. It’s a cat called “Meave”, lying on the canopy/porch outside my
front door. The “chalkboard” is the underside of the canopy/porch.

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Doctor-Emmett-Brown-esque mirrored visor sunglasses!

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Nothing gets by you!

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Here’s my current one. Wouldn’t surprise me if you draw a blank when trying to think what my old one was I used for ages.

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You’ll never get this one.

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Ah, okay. Yeah, I wouldn’t have recognized Hunter s Thompson by photo.

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All I know is it’s an Android of some kind but I don’t know if it’s a specific one.

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Swedish chef is indeed a stumper…I would never guess him.