How about posting a photo of you smoking your favorite pipe? We'll get to know the real you instead of an avatar. Don't know if it's been done before but let's give it a go.
Here I am.
Enjoying a bowl in a bar in Virginia City, NV on my wedding anniversary. This bar is across the street from the building where Mark Twain first began using his pen name while writing for the local paper there.
Here I am at the West Coast Pipe show with some other forum regulars. I'm in the orange Missouri Meerschaum T-shirt. They can self-ID if they so choose.
Photo credit: West Coast Pipe Show
Encroyable!!as the French would say; a few folks look like their avatars!
And I can make out my receding hairline, sitting between you and Jesse (straw hat, back to us). Jon Guss is on the right, facing camera.
John
I realized I only have three photos with my pipe - Two of them I don't like that much, and the third one is my profile pic. However, this is one of the other two.