# What is your wallpaper on your computer?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 7, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670 "2004-04-07T02:38:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/1 "2004-04-07T02:38:33Z")
This has been done before, but the threads I turned up with searches are a couple years old, and these things change. So let’s do this poll again.
I change mine fairly frequently. Right now it is a picture I took at sunrise in Ocean City, New Jersey. (On the beach, looking through that old decaying pier thing near 59th Street, for those who may be familiar with the place)
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### Author:  [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/2 "2004-04-07T02:46:14Z")
Background is a nice plug for Opera. Blue, with the Opera “O” in the bottom right corner, some guy with a telescope in the bottom left and, next to the “O”, a plug for [www.opera.com](http://www.opera.com) beneath the words “Simply the Best Internet Experience”.
Love my Opera browser.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/3 "2004-04-07T02:46:31Z")
The scoreboard at Fenway Park.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/4 "2004-04-07T02:48:00Z")
Right now, it’s a gorgeous shot of the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle that I downloaded from [this site](http://www.webshots.com).
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### Author:  [@Intent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intent)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/5 "2004-04-07T02:48:20Z")
Repeating pictures of orlando bloom, colin farrell, brad pitt and johnny depp. I like my wall paper!
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/6 "2004-04-07T02:49:25Z")
An image from the Hubble telescope
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### Author:  [@quilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quilter)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/7 "2004-04-07T02:52:46Z")
A picture of a county road in northern Idaho; my dad surveyed the road one summer when he was in college.
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### Author:  [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/8 "2004-04-07T02:57:31Z")
(part of) a movie poster for the 1932 version of _The Mummy_, showing Boris Karloff’s head and the slogan:
“And now KARLOFF the uncanny as ‘The MUMMY’ - it comes to life!”
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### Author:  [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/9 "2004-04-07T03:01:10Z")
Right now it’s Alice from **Dilbert** saying, “Must…control…fist…of…death…”
One of my co-workers gave it to me. He said it reminded him of me for some strange reason. 🙂
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/10 "2004-04-07T03:05:13Z")
I made mine in photoshop from a picture I found online of a water droplet hitting a pool. [Here](http://www.image4u.org/interface2x/desktop.jpg) it is.
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/11 "2004-04-07T03:08:44Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> An image from the Hubble telescope
Likewise. Specifically, [Recycling Cassiopeia A](http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020712.html)
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### Author:  [@rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rose)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/12 "2004-04-07T03:10:10Z")
Just the other day i found a [good painting](http://www.topofart.com/painting.php?id=2609) for my desktop…
it’s called Idyll, and it’s by Lord Frederick Leighton.
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### Author:  [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/13 "2004-04-07T03:16:14Z")
I am so boring. I have the compaq palaver the computer came with. I have just never been inspired to change it.
The child changes his on a near daily basis though. I think it is currently a Neopet. We have the same computer just different users, that was his idea.
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### Author:  [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/14 "2004-04-07T03:16:38Z")
A picture I took of the N R(?) platform at Times Square station 2 years ago. It was about 4:30a, so the platform and station were empty.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/15 "2004-04-07T03:36:19Z")
A photograph of Pont Neuf in Paris.
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### Author:  [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/16 "2004-04-07T04:17:40Z")
At work its a picture of Havasupai falls from last years trek there.
At home it WAS Madonna until my husband started poking around and made it INXS.
I dont mess with his computer, why does he mess with mine?
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### Author:  [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/17 "2004-04-07T04:23:15Z")
I rotate between the more artsy (sunsets, wildlife, that kind of thing) of the photographs I take at work.
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### Author:  [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/18 "2004-04-07T04:48:23Z")
Like **GorillaMan** and **OttoDaFe** , an image from the Hubble telescope (the Orion Nebula, to be specific).
We’re such geeks 😉
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/19 "2004-04-07T04:53:07Z")
> [@PigBoy](#):
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> This has been done before, but the threads I turned up with searches are a couple years old, and these things change. So let’s do this poll again.
I belive that it was this sort of thread that caused the abandonment of the [img] tag.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-wallpaper-on-your-computer/238670/20 "2004-04-07T04:58:46Z")
Naked Sable playboy pic.
[Homer Simpson]mmmmm, Naked Sable…[/Homer Simpson]
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