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

 

 

might and main

March 26th, 2016 at 5:56 PM ^

Cuz we are Michigan's fans, and I see this as our main role: cheering the team on.

...

We cheer them again

We cheer and cheer again

For Michigan, we cheer for Michigan

We cheer with might and main

We cheer, cheer, cheer

With might and main we cheer!

Chance Freedom

March 26th, 2016 at 5:56 PM ^

No avatar because I'm lazy.

Username comes from when we played NW and they wore those military appreciation uniforms that had things like "Freedom" and "Sacrifice" or whatever as the name plates. Someone in the chat mentioned a guy on their team's first name was Chance and someone else responded "Chance Freedom" which I thought was quite a nice username

xtramelanin

March 26th, 2016 at 7:42 PM ^

and mgowife asked if we could move back to socal to take care of them.   they beat cancer and heart trouble, respectively, and we were paroled (my words) back to northern michigan 3 yrs to the day from when we went out there.   i thought i was never going to get back home. 

xtramelanin

March 26th, 2016 at 10:45 PM ^

2800 miles away (if they hadn't moved)  when they start to not be able to take care of themselves makes my soul shiver.  i lobbied them to move for years.   if necessary we will move them into the house.  it is the duty and honor of our generation to take care of them.

MAccLA

March 26th, 2016 at 5:59 PM ^

User name: I formally joined the blog around the time when I was finishing my MAcc at Ross and moving to LA...

Avatar: Charles Drake was one of my best friends at Michigan and from LA. The avatar is in his memory. RIP Chuck.

FA_Wolverine

March 26th, 2016 at 6:00 PM ^

FA stands for field artillery. Wolverine because I love the maize and blue.

I picked that helmet as my avatar because I think it's sick looking. GO BLUE!




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mGrowOld

March 26th, 2016 at 6:01 PM ^

I'm old. My wife is not so old. Used to have actual pic of wife which used to cause much consternation, gnashing of teeth and garment rendering among some posters till the Internet naughty bit police swooped in.

I'm So as a protest to both the Internet naughty bit police AND my fellow posters who used to bitch about her pic I put up this one.

StephenRKass

March 26th, 2016 at 6:22 PM ^

You don't look that old in a pic you posted of yourself. With Tressel, iirc.

Also, for readers who are curious and non-observant, you can link to mgrowold's wife's website on his tagline, should you wish to see his former avatar.

FTR, I was never one of the one's with shorts in a wad over your avatar. There were a couple of avatar's that pushed the envelope, but not yours. And I never complained about any.

I also have had some complaints about my avatar. But I haven't changed it.

StephenRKass

March 26th, 2016 at 6:01 PM ^

Here's the story, but you can't tell anyone, or I'll have to kill you.

My REAL name is James Bond. I'm British, but went to UofM as part of my cover story. StephenRKass is an alias I use so no one will even suspect who I really am.

My avatar is one of my former girlfriends. Her name is Moneypenny. This photo was taken while she was at the Woodstock music festival.