# Which board avatars do you like?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-board-avatars-do-you-like/942351/190 "2021-05-27T13:10:45Z")

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I’ll join this chorus:

> [@Spoons](#):
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> “A jar of pickles” was my first thought too. Only when I clicked on it and saw the bigger version, did I realize that it was a can of beer.

With no disrespect to our esteemed @mordecaiB, I figured it for some sort of jar of something too. Coulda been pickles, coulda been mayo, I had no specific idea. Only when he (or so he says 😉 ) called attention to it upthread did I look at the larger version and could read the label. Beer. Huh? Who knew?

  

> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> I learn things on this board that I really don’t need to know.

Don’t go here then. Over 2000 things, some of which are … indelicate:

> [@Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across/851674):
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> I suspect many dopers are interested in lots of far-flung concepts and disciplines beyond what the daily grind demands. As an hommage to liberal arts education and pop culture and that spirit of lifelong learning, give us a random fact you learned. Quirky, unexpected, funny, something that made you say “a-ha!” or whatever you like… And you can play more than once if you like. I’ll start: Harry S. Truman’s middle name is S. Wikipedia says: His middle name, “S” honors his grandfathers, Ander…

> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Bagpipes don’t have anuses, so you’re good.

Damn! I was so hoping … 😉  
  
  
As to avatars we like, I’d forgotten @ExTank’s until I noticed a recent in another thread. He makes his point gently but _very_ insistently.

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