# Which board avatars do you like? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 18, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351 "2021-05-18T07:30:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/1 "2021-05-18T07:30:10Z")
Maybe you don’t like any, maybe you don’t even notice them. For those that do, which are your favorites? 1. @Turki-lurki is tops for me because I find it incredibly funny. 2. @madmonk28 gets second because of the unexpected text added to the cat picture. 3. @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. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/2 "2021-05-18T10:53:33Z")
Put me in the “rarely pay attention to them” camp. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/3 "2021-05-18T10:56:48Z")
I notice the avatar only if it’s a red blob that briefly distracts me into thinking this is one of my own posts which I forgot I wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/4 "2021-05-18T12:10:58Z")
I like @NorthernPiper’s “hummingbird” bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/5 "2021-05-18T12:27:29Z")
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. > **[InspiroBot](https://inspirobot.me/)** > > I am an artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of pointless human existence. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/6 "2021-05-18T12:30:10Z")
I like @Morgyn’s. That cat seems so serious and wise. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/7 "2021-05-18T16:37:24Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I notice the avatar only if it’s a red blob that briefly distracts me into thinking this is one of my own posts which I forgot I wrote. If I see a red blob I automatically think it’s you and wonder if you have multiple personalities because your opinions are all over the place. > [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > I like @NorthernPiper’s “hummingbird” bagpipes. You forgot mosquito. His definitely draws a lot of different interpretations. > [@madmonk28](#): > > 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. Sure, blame it on a random generator. 🙂 It just seemed out of place for you that it made it even better. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I like @Morgyn’s. That cat seems so serious and wise. That cat, like all cats, looks like it’s ready to rip open some poor unsuspecting person’s throat. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/8 "2021-05-18T16:44:29Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I like @Morgyn’s. That cat seems so serious and wise. > [@mordecaiB](#): > > That cat, like all cats, looks like it’s ready to rip open some poor unsuspecting person’s throat. Eddy says thank you to @Dung_Beetle. He’s actually a pretty laid back cat, and he likes to snuggle. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/9 "2021-05-18T18:34:31Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > @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. 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: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Jabberwocky_creatures.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Jabberwocky_creatures.jpg) To be sure, the Wikipedia page for [Jabberwocky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky) seems garbled: At one point, it says: > [@](#): > > For example, following the poem, a “rath” is described by Humpty as “a sort of green pig”.[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky#cite_note-AAW96-18) Carroll’s notes for the original in _[Mischmasch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischmasch)_ suggest a “rath” is “a species of Badger” that “lived chiefly on cheese” and had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag.[[19]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky#cite_note-Penguin-19) Later, the same page says: > [@](#): > > Tove: Humpty Dumpty says “‘Toves’ are something like badgers, they’re something like lizards, and they’re something like corkscrews. … Also they make their nests under sun-dials, also they live on cheese.”[[18]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky#cite_note-AAW96-18) Pronounced so as to rhyme with _groves_ .[[21]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky#cite_note-HoS-21) They “gyre and gimble”, i.e., rotate and bore. Toves are described slightly differently in _[Mischmasch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischmasch)_ : “a species of Badger [which] had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag [and] lived chiefly on cheese”.[[19]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky#cite_note-Penguin-19) (ETA: Emphasis added by me.) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/10 "2021-05-18T18:53:47Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/11 "2021-05-18T19:32:36Z")
@BippityBoppityBoo 's judgy young lady is awesome ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/12 "2021-05-18T20:44:14Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > 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.) It’s more specifically from a [Simpson’s episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6STgwD9y72A&t=14s), which was a sendup of _Mad(4) World_. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/13 "2021-05-18T21:26:08Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > 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 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! > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > 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.) Never saw the movie so I always did think it was a “t” shaped tree. It’s well done, though. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/14 "2021-05-18T22:14:13Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/15 "2021-05-19T01:50:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/16 "2021-05-19T02:05:23Z")
I’m a fan of happy cartoon character avatars – they brighten up the board! Just a few examples (click on the names): @swampbear @El_Kabong @ZipperJJ ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/17 "2021-05-19T04:27:08Z")
The hippo is disappointed with the choices so far… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/18 "2021-05-19T04:30:16Z")
> [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](#): > > 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** > > - [and five others . . .] 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): - @Left_Hand_of_Dorkness - @beowulff - @Exapno_Mapcase - @Thudlow_Boink - @Ann_Hedonia - @EinsteinsHund ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/19 "2021-05-19T05:18:44Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/20 "2021-05-19T06:03:07Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > The hippo is disappointed with the choices so far… Has The Hippo gotten over his conflicted feelings about fighting a young blind girl? [https://pics.me.me/the-boulder-feelsconflicted-about-fightinga-young-soundstomehlike-blind-girl-youre-12555179.png](https://pics.me.me/the-boulder-feelsconflicted-about-fightinga-young-soundstomehlike-blind-girl-youre-12555179.png) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351.md?page=2)