OT - Explain Your Avatar and User Name

Submitted by xtramelanin on

Mates,

Over the years snippets come out on various mgobloggers about their avatars - like MGrowOld, for instance, has a picture of his wife, and LSA2000 explained the 'naughty dentist' line in his avatar.  And while of course some of them are pretty straight forward, nevertheless, for many, the who/what/why of your avatar and user name are unknown.

I searched the archives and found nothing on point, so the question/issue is this:  Explain your avatar/picture and username - why that picture, those numbers or lettters or whatever else that designates your mgoblog presence. 

CAVEAT:  if 'Everybody Murders' is thinking about explaining, you might want to read some things on self-incrimination, the fifth amendment, and the fact that most jurisdictions have no statute of limitations on murder.  Just in case, you know, yours is true.   

Happy Easter/Holiday Weekend and Go Blue for our hockey team in about 15 minutes.

XM

 

 

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Eyzwidopn

March 26th, 2016 at 6:06 PM ^

Avatar - First, "Big Trouble in Little China" is a classic and 'Jack Burton' is one of the best anti-heroes of all-time!  If you need a good one-liner, watch that movie.

Eyzwidopn - Got to see it all before you can understand it all! 

Joined: 09/16/2013

MGoPoints: 3086

Blue-Chip

March 26th, 2016 at 6:09 PM ^

Name: Lifelong M fan who graduated from CMU.

Avatar: MS Paint interpretation of the name, from the days when MS Paint ruled the roost around these parts.

Joined: 01/06/2010

MGoPoints: 9718

matdog05GOBLUE

March 26th, 2016 at 6:10 PM ^

Username: Nickname for me I used wrestle in high school and college. In High School our mascot is huskies. So Matdog! 

Avatar: I like Michigan a lot! Also running under the banner is awesome it is? 

Joined: 01/06/2011

MGoPoints: 1539

Mr. Flood

March 26th, 2016 at 6:11 PM ^

My avatar is a memorial to the great Rob Lytle. My name is taken from Mr. Flood's Party; my favorite bar when I was in college. The bar was named after the great poem by E. A. Robinson:

Mr. Flood's Party

BY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night
Over the hill between the town below
And the forsaken upland hermitage
That held as much as he should ever know
On earth again of home, paused warily.
The road was his with not a native near;
And Eben, having leisure, said aloud,
For no man else in Tilbury Town to hear:

"Well, Mr. Flood, we have the harvest moon
Again, and we may not have many more;
The bird is on the wing, the poet says,
And you and I have said it here before.
Drink to the bird." He raised up to the light
The jug that he had gone so far to fill,
And answered huskily: "Well, Mr. Flood,
Since you propose it, I believe I will."

Alone, as if enduring to the end
A valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn,
He stood there in the middle of the road
Like Roland's ghost winding a silent horn.
Below him, in the town among the trees,
Where friends of other days had honored him,
A phantom salutation of the dead
Rang thinly till old Eben's eyes were dim.

Then, as a mother lays her sleeping child
Down tenderly, fearing it may awake,
He set the jug down slowly at his feet
With trembling care, knowing that most things break;
And only when assured that on firm earth
It stood, as the uncertain lives of men
Assuredly did not, he paced away,
And with his hand extended paused again:

"Well, Mr. Flood, we have not met like this
In a long time; and many a change has come
To both of us, I fear, since last it was
We had a drop together. Welcome home!"
Convivially returning with himself,
Again he raised the jug up to the light;
And with an acquiescent quaver said:
"Well, Mr. Flood, if you insist, I might.

"Only a very little, Mr. Flood—
For auld lang syne. No more, sir; that will do."
So, for the time, apparently it did,
And Eben evidently thought so too;
For soon amid the silver loneliness
Of night he lifted up his voice and sang,
Secure, with only two moons listening,
Until the whole harmonious landscape rang—

"For auld lang syne." The weary throat gave out,
The last word wavered; and the song being done,
He raised again the jug regretfully
And shook his head, and was again alone.
There was not much that was ahead of him,
And there was nothing in the town below—
Where strangers would have shut the many doors
That many friends had opened long ago.
 
 

Joined: 09/12/2010

MGoPoints: 1469

Njia

March 26th, 2016 at 6:11 PM ^

Was actually a mistake that goes back to an old account name on Yahoo! Finance. I had been employed by a software company and when I left, kept following it since I had a significant number of shares invested. My account name was "nowjustanotherinvestor." Then I shortened it to "Njia," which screwed up the order of the last two letters.

Joined: 09/15/2009

MGoPoints: 35773

chunkums

March 26th, 2016 at 6:14 PM ^

Name: I thought it was a funny and stupid thing when I was a kid playing Perfect Dark for N64 with my friends.

Avatar: I graduated from Michigan for undergrad, but I'm finishing up my first year as a PhD student at Ohio State, hence evil Anakin Skywalker with the Buckeye eyes. 

Joined: 06/30/2008

MGoPoints: 29028

kevin holt

March 26th, 2016 at 6:15 PM ^

It's my real name because I was dumb and didn't know how much time I'd actually spend on this blog. Avatar is STEVE HOLT from arrested development: see username.

Joined: 03/16/2010

MGoPoints: 17446

SalvatoreQuattro

March 26th, 2016 at 6:16 PM ^

He served in King Umberto I's Royal Horse Artilley(Italy), immigrated to the US in 1901, went back and forth between the two countries three more times, became a miner in West Virginia, and died of edema in 1924 at the age of 48. (His brother died of arsenic poisoning a few months earlier. Both diseases related to their jobs as miners.)

 

Joined: 11/30/2010

MGoPoints: 79653

Wolverine in Troy

March 26th, 2016 at 6:16 PM ^

Joined when I was getting my Masters at USC. Something about the Trojans and trying to be clever. Trying. I don't live in Troy Michigan. Picture of a dog wearing a michigan hat.

Joined: 01/08/2012

MGoPoints: 434

jdon

March 26th, 2016 at 6:22 PM ^

first letter of my first name, first three letters of my last name...

 

my avatar used to be an awesome ewok saying 'prepare thy anus' but I decided I didn't want to be represented by a rape ewok so I went with snoopy and an anarchist flag...  I am pretty down with the anarchist movement and feel like I belong in the hills of spain circa 1939...

 

side note: I miss the quiverfull quote.

jdon

 

Joined: 09/28/2009

MGoPoints: 5988

JamesBondHerpesMeds

March 26th, 2016 at 6:22 PM ^

Heh.

My avatar emerged from a conversation on this here blog years ago. The thread involved both DB and Dantonio, and I couldn't think of a better thing to do than to create the Dantoninoid: Domino's infamous mascot combined with the teeth of Mork.

As for the screen name: it's the savior of hundreds of women and the British Crown. Could you imagine 007 with a cold sore?



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Joined: 04/13/2009

MGoPoints: 39720

justingoblue

March 26th, 2016 at 6:25 PM ^

I'll keep the mysterious origins of my handle to myself, the avatar was posted by another MGoUser sometime in early 2011 (I think) and I liked it.

Still do. Makes my own posts easy to spot and is more or less unique on here. 

When I did my MGoProfile there was some hardcore searching for the thread with my avatar origin, but we never found it.

Joined: 11/16/2010

MGoPoints: 29741

MGoPoe

March 26th, 2016 at 6:26 PM ^

Poe Dameron best pilot in the Resistance.  "Can I fly a TIE fighter" he asks, HA I can fly anything. Acquirer of great coats,  generous with said coats, destroyed Starkiller Base (humble brag), Rey's love interest even if she doesn't know it yet, possesses well worn copies of the complete works of John U Bacon and read them every night, general all-around badass. 

Joined: 10/06/2013

MGoPoints: 1446

Hugh White

March 26th, 2016 at 6:26 PM ^

Hugh White was the captain of the 1901 Fielding Yost team.  The team was undefeated (11-0) and unscored-upon (555-0).  

The team was also invited to participate in a post-season game on January 1, 1902, the first of its kind, hosted by the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California -- a game pitting the best football squad from the east (Michigan) versus of the best of the west (Stanford).  M could only afford to send 11 players.  With the score 49-0, the Stanford Captain asked for mercy and Hugh White graciously accepted.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_White_(American_football) 

Hugh White is my great-great-great-grand-uncle-by-marriage (or some such relation).

Joined: 11/26/2012

MGoPoints: 12405

CoverZero

March 26th, 2016 at 6:29 PM ^

I used to play strong safety in football.  Its my favorite postion, as is Defense over Offense.  I love a great offense of course...but Defense is more fun to play and wins championships.

The avatar changes from time to time.  I used to have Tom Brady in the Patriots pocket vs. the Seahawks.  Now its The Greatest.  ...actually both are.

Joined: 08/30/2014

MGoPoints: 14571

Avant's Hands

March 26th, 2016 at 6:34 PM ^

I really want to be a part of this thread, but just don't have much to contribute. Avant is my favorite Michigan player of all time and his reliability was a big part of that. The picture seemed representative.

Joined: 10/22/2011

MGoPoints: 9271