Maybe you don’t like any, maybe you don’t even notice them. For those that do, which are your favorites?
@Turki-lurki is tops for me because I find it incredibly funny.
@madmonk28 gets second because of the unexpected text added to the cat picture.
@Slithy_Tove would have scored higher but, if I remember correctly, toves are white and have horns, so I suspect that is not a real tove depicted in the avatar.
Wow, I forgot about my avatar. It’s from Inspirobot a site that randomly generates inspirational posters. I had this idea I’d change it every week or so and then promptly forgot.
Lewis Carroll himself gave conflicting descriptions of toves, raths, and perhaps other critters. Before writing Looking Glass, he wrote a periodical called Mischmasch, in which he may have given the description you mention. But in Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty gives some different descriptions. Slithy_Tove’s avatar follows Humpty Dumpty’s definition and agrees with Tenniel’s illustration:
To be sure, the Wikipedia page for Jabberwocky seems garbled: At one point, it says:
The only one I ever seem to notice is @BigT . I’m always like “why does that guy have an ugly palm tree avatar?” Then I realize it’s a big “T”. Then I remember It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and the big “W” and I laugh cuz that’s a funny movie (and I assume the avatar is a play on that.)
Hmmm, it seems toves and raths may possibly be the same beast with different names. Or different beasts that look similar. I think Slithy_Tove is going to have to prove his avatar is a tove and not a rath. Damn Lewis Carroll and Humpty Dumpty for confusing things!
Never saw the movie so I always did think it was a “t” shaped tree. It’s well done, though.
There are quite a few posters whose avatars I like or find amusing, but in the interest of time I will only list six, in no particular order:
Left_Hand_of_Dorkness - creative and colorful. IMO better than his previous “Cool Hand Luke” avatar which made it easy to confuse him with Lucas_Jackson
beowulff - for some reason his avatar makes me chuckle
Exapno_Mapcase - cool and retrofuturistic. At first I thought it was a skeleton with a jetpack until I expanded it and looked closer
Thudlow_Boink - Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite work of literature, and this particular panel just fits his name so well
Ann_Hedonia - quirky and minimalistic
EinsteinsHund - a dog that looks like Einstein. Need I say more?
I might enjoy it if others liked my avatar but that is merely human weakness; the mortal fear of being alone. It is not possible to like or dislike that which is everything and nothing.
You should have mentioned their names with @ as others in this thread are doing. That way, we can click on the names to see the avatars. Here, I’ll fix that for you (so I can see them myself):
Yeah, I could have, but I didn’t want them to be bothered by the board’s automated notifications over a post as inconsequential as mine. I guess that point’s moot now, since you’ve mentioned them anyway.