Avatar/Screen Name

[scrooge]

Thanks for the sorry's guy's, but PLEASE no more. Did'nt mean to turn hmHaines thread towards the morbid side. Let's see some more avatar an screen name stories. :puffpipe:

 

[jvnshr]

Scrooge, I knew that the photo belonged to your son but I have never imagined you like this. You look like a rock band star

 

[macaroon]

Macaroon is one of various nicknames given to me by my folks based off my actual name, Cameron. My current avatar is a picture I took of a jewelweed leaf at the Kalamazoo Nature Center, where I've visited and/or worked for most of my (admittedly not too lengthy, at this point) life. At this point it's basically a second home.

 

[cossackjack]

Avatar:

An unnamed character in the painting, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire (aka Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto) by Ilya Repin.

Surface Fragments: The Cossacks

Wikipedia: Repin's The Cossacks
Screen Name:

Combination of two old nicknames: ancestral Cossacks & my barbaric contact sports performance, & Jack Flash for my initials, JF.

 

[lohengrin]

Lohengrin is the knight of the german tradition who was searching for the holy grail.

I choosed this name cause I am always searching for something as far and difficult to find: the truth of things.

The avatar is a picture of Lohengrin on the boat pulled by the swan.

 

[rfernand]

I like dogs. I like pipe smoking. My name starts with the letter "R".

 

[jacks6]

Scrooge, I knew that the photo belonged to your son but I have never imagined you like this. You look like a rock band star

He almost looks like Tom Araya from Slayer, total badass.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

My screen name came about on a day I was feeling particularly creative and obscure.
My avatar is a retro chip and dip server I bought at a thrift store that made a perfect ash-tray/pipe station.

 

[hugodrax]

My favorite James Bond villain, I'm afraid. Loved the book. Movie was far more stupid, but great one liners. Don't know why I did it, to be honest.

 

[texmexpipe]

I'm from Texas, half Mexican, and I smoke a pipe. I also have a pug and have an affinity for breed as they are a lot like me. That is to say a little round around the middle, prone to snore and fart.

 

[skraps]

This is a cool thread. Interesting to see the story behind peoples names and pics.

 

[jvnshr]

He almost looks like Tom Araya from Slayer, total badass.

Yup, you nailed it.

 

[jazz]

Mine is simply a nickname and the avatar is my nation's flag.

 

[mso489]

MSO 489 is the hull number of a now-decomissioned USN minesweeper on which I served. MSO means minesweeper ocean-going. I was aboard for most of 1970. I joined the ship in Subic Bay, Philippines, and went on two prolonged patrols in the DMZ (demilitarized zone, but don't count on it). Eventually, we sailed back across the Pacific with a prolonged stint for repairs on Guam. I was eventually reassigned to Midway Island where I did a newspaper, and on to Milwaukee Navy Recruiting for some months before separation two months early to begin graduate school, since the military was scaling down. On the 'sweep, I was a radioman, after that, a journalist, a rare change of job assignment done in response to a special program from the Chief of Naval Operations. The ship hull was all-wood construction, Washington Spruce, and powered by four Packard diesel engines (yes, that Packard, the old car-maker). I thought I was getting my military obligation out of the way, but of course, when you spend a chunk of your twenties in the service, it tends to shape your life ever after.
I say the ship was decommissioned, but it was given to the Taiwanese navy and is likely still in service, refitted with Japanese diesels. It was very well built in Tacoma in the mid-1950s. It is renamed.

 

[tmb152]

tmb are the initials of a friend of mine who made fine optics before he passed away in 2007. The 152 refers to the size of the optics he made for me.

 

[foggymountain]

The avatar is a photo of a cross painting I made. It has nails sticking out from all the edges. Just a reminder that they used to nail people to these things.