# Use of Avatar **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 27, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818 "2006-01-27T05:57:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/41 "2006-01-28T04:30:58Z")
I think it’s some sort of scary virus, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/42 "2006-01-28T05:06:13Z")
> [@Billdo](#): > > Oh drat. The post up there under **Green Bean** ’s name was actually by me. If you’re going to post under my name, could you at least check your spelling? “Avitar?” Get a dictionary, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/43 "2006-01-28T16:19:51Z")
Um, by the way… What’s an avatar? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/44 "2006-01-28T16:31:48Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > What’s an avatar? An Avatar is ‘the descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; – chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu’. **OR** it’s the funny little picture you see next to a person’s username on some messageboards. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/45 "2006-01-28T22:38:34Z")
Personally, I think avatars are a bit atavistic. But I would be in favor of them if I could use an Assgoblin for mine. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/46 "2006-01-28T23:09:12Z")
I am hie on the INTARWEB lolololololz I LOVE AVITARRS! ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/47 "2006-01-28T23:32:47Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I am hie on the INTARWEB lolololololz I LOVE AVITARRS! That goat felching is some heavy shit, man. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/48 "2006-01-28T23:35:14Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > That goat felching is some heavy shit, man. lolololszdzszz i am leet bcuz i haev a goat-felchar for my avvitar on another mesage bored that is waAAAyy coolar then this 1. lol. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/49 "2006-01-28T23:38:25Z")
Now that I think about it, I should leave this kind of acting to Stephen Colbert. I hereby stop. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/50 "2006-01-29T00:03:10Z")
No, thank you. Really. Lok ---
**Author:** ![socal57chevy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@socal57chevy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/socal57chevy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/51 "2006-01-30T06:32:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > But I would be in favor of them if I could use an Assgoblin for mine. Are assgoblins related to turd-burglars, or are they altogether different? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/52 "2006-01-30T13:01:55Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > I understand that there are bunches of aavitarists like you on the board but you have to realize that there are many people here who do believe in avitars. You should limit such offensive comments to the Pit. You’re awfully casual about referring to me as an [avatarist.] Such comments could get a person an invite to the pit. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818/53 "2006-01-30T15:00:09Z")
I think we’ve seen enough of this. Got a problem? Take it elsewhere. TubaDiva [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-of-avatar/341818.md?page=2)