Thanks, guys. You are too kind. I am very fortunate for both my family and your friendship.

God made children seem cute so that their parents would not kill them. It also works for the dog.

I've got to hand it to JP for "follicularly". Genius. Unfortunately, that picture is several years old, and my overabundance of testosterone is only exacerbating my hair loss. Of course, it has other impacts, too.

You mean that you, too, are a solar-powered sex machine?

Nope, I think that means Tom ran out and got a corvette!

Tom, I am just kidding, and no offense meant to any 'vette owners. Just having some fun.

Rich

You're right about that. I'm itching to get a sporty convertible, but additions to the house, student loans, etc are making me delay scratching that itch. Anyway, when I picture myself in a 'vette convertible, or a Z4, or Boxster, or somesuch, invariably my mind will drift over to people on the sidewalk muttering something about a mid-life crisis.

Of course, if I listened to Mark, I'd just imagine myself running over them and then chipping the evidence, and that'd fix that!

You'd be amazed how much better you can feel about a midlife crisis when you belittle others.

Get it? Chipper? Belittle others?

Man, I'm a freakin' riot.....

Your neologism of "belittle" reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes:

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man"
- Jeremiah Springfield

(link)

You guys crack me up!

Somebody hit Mark with some tear gas.

No, I've not yet acquired a midlife crisis car, but I certainly entertain the concept in idle moments. I have some process problems in that regard.

Apparently, I've been informed by my hip friends that Real Men don't drive either Boxsters or Miatas (Miati?). And there's a guy at my office that has wrecked the Z3/Z4 concept for me. Which leaves me with a Honda S2000, Pontiac Solstice (if you could find/buy one), a regrettably-discontinued Toyota MR2, something vintage and/or something that guzzles gas. I'm not a mechanic, and I've pushed enough Fiats and MG's in my life to understand the intangible costs. I mean, really, where I live (the beautiful Pacific Northwest), having a convertible anything is really a mixed blessing. You can only fantasize about driving it with the top down for about 3-4 months of the year and the rest of the time, it would just be noisy, moist and moldy. And during the Top-Down Weather, it's usually so freakin' hot and bright that you might not be comfortable anyway.

I never really cared as much about feeling/looking "cool" as I do about getting good Value. And I'm firmly on the "Happy Wife, Happy Life" plan. So, for me to indulge in a fun, sporty car, Julie would have to want the car more than she wants tile floors, air conditioning, furniture, etc.

The thing I DO have going for me is that often, when we see particularly curvaceous automobiles, my beautiful wife will rightly comment that she'd "look good in that". Then, invariably, one of the kids in the back of the minivan will snap us back to reality.

Keep hope alive!

Real men don't drive anything called "Solstice" either.

And boy, if real men don't drive Boxsters, I'd say they're missing out.

What you really need is an Enzo.

Ken, even if I had $1 million, I still wouldn't spend it on that. I think the sheer "excess" of it would diminish my enjoyment.

By request, here's my original TiVo avatar:


Here is the avatar I am currently using:

Dave, thanks for the avatar posts!

Tom, I know what you mean with the kids ruining the practicality of a 2-seater. If I did go with a convertible any time soon, I'd consider the new Volvo C70. Love the idea of a hardtop. For less money, Volkswagen is coming out with the Eos 4-seater hardtop.

My dream would be for Infiniti to make the G35 coupe into a convertible. Sadly, it seems they have no plans to do so. That would be stylish, with enough room in the back for small children! My favorite photoshopped hoax picture: link

Bump!

Here are some avatars that I have used in the last year:





(always a Rush fan)



Chris Hanson, in between catching predators ...



I've got a fever - and the only cure is more cowbell!



Does this mean that I treat it or that I have it? Yes.



(made at SimpsonsMovie.com; on Blu-Ray 12-18-07!)

And - the current one, upgrading to animation now - the robots are out of the closet:


Anybody else sharing?

JP, I find your current collage fairly disturbing. It's like a miniature Kubrick film.

Here are some versions of John Candy's Tom Tuttle that I considered but ultimately rejected.







I recognize that the current version is really "Uncle Buck", but I just feel it evolves and synthesizes Candy's Tuttlehood with my own in a satisfying way.

Sweeeeet. My film projects are just beginning, mwah ha ha. If only there were a soundtrack. I mean that everybody else could hear, too, not just the internal one that accompanies my everyday life.

nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-NUUUUUHHH

nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-NUUUUUHHH


Special prize to whoever knows what I'm talking about.

Uh..Bill Murry in Caddyshack?

So does Doc's latest mean he's come out of the closet and admitting he's bi-polar? IE: Speakergirl, Grammerbot and Spellingbot?

Nope.

A bit older than that.

Not Bill Murray but Ty(Chevy Chase) while practice putting.

Hint: it's not a movie.

Happy Birthday to YOU!
happy birthday to YOU!

I know Teletubbies Nuh-nuh

Much older than that, Jason... newer than that, Doc. In the comedy category.

Evil Homer?

Ooooolder... although there was a sitcom starring the person I'm thinking of that ran opposite the Simpsons for awhile.

Gimme some lovin' by the Spencer Davis Group.

Nope, but you're getting to the right era. And the correct medium, at least how I listened to it when I was a kid.

Bill Cosby? I'm trying to make the Fat Albert theme fit, but I can't do it.

Bing!

And the prize is: I tell you how to turn off Doc's ava... damn.

What I am referring to somewhat obliquely is Bill Cosby's mental theme song that he talked about on the album Wonderfulness in the segment entitled "Go Carts"

Obscure enough for you?

Your avatar just had me thinking that way.

The Green Hornet theme song, wasn't it?

Old Weird Harold's was the Lone Ranger theme... if I remember correctly.

Bren R.

It probably was, but I'm not sure. But yes, Old Weird Harold's was the Lone Ranger.

I'm not really retiring this avatar. I just like to put living things into caskets.

Also, do I get anything for staying the same forever?

How about a scoop of vanilla ice cream?

Actually, there's nothing vanilla about your avatar. I would only suggest changing it if you could make the new avatar an animated gif of the dragon/unicorn incident.

This whole thread is ridiculously hilarious.

Thanks! This whole thread is also ridiculously overdue for an update.

My restless nature has led to frequent avatar changes (and sig file changes). As best I can recall, the ones used since last time have included, in rough chronological order,


a smiling walrus - how handsome!


Groovy Spiderman, dancing in the style of Napoleon Dynamite


The universal sign of the teenager


I still love the LOLcats, just don't shout about it as much any more.


Ah, beloved rainbow head!


Ah, beloved idol, Sigmund Freud!


I don't know what got into me on this one.


One of speakergrrl's past avatars


Afro Ninja, an internet meme seen most recently in the Weezer "Pork and Beans" video.

The Axiom Avatar Museum and Retirement Home is now accepting new members, fellas! Whatcha got?

The first avatar you retire gets more and more pertinent. Altought you might need 3 WTF nowadays!

That video (Link to Pork and Beans video) is pretty entertaining. I just saw it the other day. A lot of their videos are creative. My favorite being Keep Fishing featuring the Muppets - Good stuff.

I decided to honor JP's favourite beer. And cute vermin.

The best part about that pic is that the photographer bothered to put another squirrel in the background.

And I keep thinking of the old saw that "even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while." Never thought one'd get lucky enough for a Guinness!
Rich

Just thought I'd preserve this one, which I am currently using at Mark's suggestion. Long weekend, here I come.

I didn't use these squirrel avatars, but I would consider doing it just to annoy Peter:

The "Superman Squirrel" takes flying squirrels to a new level!

*bump*

I heard from a friend that it's National Man Day, so I went to the Facebook page that promotes it. I was struck by this picture there. #1 in the album of man-photos on display was this dude:



This was such an awesome picture that I had to try and avatarize it.

This will dethrone King LOLcat:



who had been trading out with Bill Russell and Red Auerbach:

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I think that that is all the new ones for now.

As previously mentioned, I am currently saluting the female form in honor of Cam's caregiver, Teri. She's not in this picture, of course, but this is clearly one of my "happy" places.

Awesome!

An added bonus is that I get to make Sean view another page with rainbow head man. When I visited, Sean told me how much he liked that particular avatar.

I've never had an avatar, do I just die then?

only if you don't feed them enough beer.

I'd like to spaten her rückenseite.

I'm more of a brüste man myself.

Did someone say brüste?

I'm reminded of the ancestral family name: Schwing!

*urp*

Thanks!

I don't know what they're saying, but I still found the video educational.

Well, I've enjoyed glancing at the Oktoberfest lovelies, but that kind of avatar really isn't my style, so I'm just going with the diversity of beer for a while.

Funny. I would have cropped it exactly the opposite of how you did.

Wait.

I like beer, too.

OK, I would have cropped it exactly the way it was originally cropped.

Got a new avatar for the holiday.

Mmmmm, brains.

That vein reminds me of wharf on Star Trek.

The baldness reminded me of Captain peecard.

I have a little more hair than Picard.

Did you just come from the movie Zombieland?

Would have been cool to go out to the movie like that, but no. Was just my friend practicing her makeup skills.

Here's the avitars I've used so far.









Here's some I haven't used, but thought about it.

Some of these are really funny. If I had to pick a favorite, I'd go with Will Ferrell and more cowbell. I cannot think of either one of those bits (the original and Ferrell playing with Queens of the Stone Age) on SNL without smiling. (Plus, what gets lost a little bit in the whole thing is that the QOTSA song itself is actually great, and was perfect for the Ferrel bit.)

Here's a few more, I go through these too fast. My first post here is 2 posts up from here.

Face it Cat, you're a serial avatar killer.

I don't think I've ever changed mine since I first joined here.

Don't even think about touchin' Stevie, Rick!

I tried retiring my Invisible Man avatar, but dammed if I can find him!

The only way that Stevie is going to ever replaced as my avatar is with another Stevie Ray avatar ... that's really a great pic of him in my current avatar I think.

I admire and respect the avatar loyalty, Stevie. I mean Rick. It certainly makes it easy to know whose post it is at a glance.

That said, I am too restless to keep the same avatar for long. And I can appreciate more funny avatars from others, like CatBrat, who cycle through them as quickly as I do. It's a win-win.

Doc I really get a kick out of the different avatars ... I'm just too boring!

Funny, whenever I was fast scrolling through this thread earlier I had to do a double take on CatBrat's Super Man squirrel, for some reason I had a completely different image in my head. That exploding lizard face guy is a little freaky though.

Squirrels made me think of this...

"crisps"!?

I say!! we've got a wigget from across the pond! Eh wott!!

Not true, Rick. I remember that you had at least 2 other avatars. There was a different Stevie one, and there was one during the Great Avatar Wars of '08.

Trying a test run of this one. It's me and Mrs. Tuttle when we were younger.

We don't see this thread too often, so I thought I'd bump it by adding my last 3 avatars to it. One page back shows all of my other ones, btw. This thread is usually good for a few laughs.

Going back to my first avatar in honor of our coming get-together..

Those eyes, THOSE EYES!!!

I wonder how many people were around pre-1994 to have even seen that avatar or remember the crap I used to take about it?

Just us old timers

So you were posting 10 years before you registered?

What decade is this?


(wait)


(wait)


(wait)


Oh. I meant 2004!

Shhhhh, don't get the crazy man angry!

During a few weeks each fall, I celebrate Oktoberfest by changing my avatar. This year's emblem for beer and good times featured Hayden Panettiere's eyelashes. Your regularly scheduled avatar will resume next week.

Until she was all blown up, I couldn't tell who that was. I like beer, too.

My eyes keep getting drawn away from the lashes. Kind of like a trick picture.

YA, her smile is very captivating.

What's a smile?

I remember a similar 'smile' on Cam's caregiver at dinner not that long ago.

LOL! Scott, you're too funny!

I found some interesting potential avatars on the web the other day:

For Cam:

For Mark/Buddy:

For CatBrat:

For Bob:

This made me think of Mark, and I didn't know where else to put it.

From Artist Nick Veasey

But I have a beard!??!

But if you're going to be a skeleton with a beard, you have to be a pirate.

You assume I'm not?

You should find out first if Mark feels the same way.
And still, I'd ask beforehand.

Snicker.

In all of your woodworking pics, I haven't seen one where someone was walking one of your planks.

Now, for the original intentions of this thread. Here's the avatars I've used on this site, like, ever, and in order? And like, who cares, anyway.

Anyone recognize my new avatar? I'm thinking I may have to retire him soon.