#239260 - 01/14/12 01:08 AM
Avatars and Signatures
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2989
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
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Sometimes I see an avatar or read a signature and wonder what is the story behind it.
To get this moving, I'll start. The avatars I have been using are of Fleda Claes Johansson, more commonly known as Claes, from Gunslinger Girl. I am not a big fan of the series but I love the character. The signature I have been using is one of her pearls of wisdom.
Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday
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#239262 - 01/14/12 01:27 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
[Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Registered: 09/17/07
Posts: 1219
Loc: here
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I worked on BUFFs - Big Ugly Fat F$#^&*%S - during my first few years (out of almost 26) in the Air Force. I have loved them to this day. My signature is something I made up.
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"Its not a matter of being ready as it is being prepared" -- B. E. J. Taylor
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#239266 - 01/14/12 02:30 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
[Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Registered: 04/05/07
Posts: 776
Loc: The People's Republic of IL
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My avatar is my dog Fergie. He's a Schutzhund German Shepherd. BTW Izzy, I find your avatar disturbing. Dog looks like its unhappy and struggling to get those fake teeth out of it's mouth. Not cool.
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#239270 - 01/14/12 03:13 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
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τΏτ
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Registered: 04/05/07
Posts: 776
Loc: The People's Republic of IL
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You are a gentleman and a scholar.
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Gary
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#239271 - 01/14/12 03:18 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
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INTERCEPTOR
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 07/15/02
Posts: 3760
Loc: TX
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You are a gentleman and a scholar. Izzy?! We need the big-eyed, shocked looking smiley face. <---Blast, coming home from lasik surgery.
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#239275 - 01/14/12 03:32 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
[Re: Hikin_Jim]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2989
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
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I had been dying to ask but didn't want to intrude. This is why I wanted to start this thread. Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday
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#239277 - 01/14/12 03:42 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
[Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Cranky Geek
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Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 4642
Loc: Vermont
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A kinda pudgy fireworks with a slightly manic grin and an armful of fireworks... yeah, no, that doesn't describe me at all. *laughs*
As for the signature, it's from Ruroni Kenshin, and it describes (a) a large part of my perspective as a prepper, and (b) what I expect from others who I'd consider my peers. Like the people here.
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-IronRaven
When a man dare not speak without malice for fear of giving insult, that is when truth starts to die. Truth is the truest freedom.
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#239283 - 01/14/12 03:56 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/05/07
Posts: 3601
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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The avatar is a pic of me. Right now it's one from a winter camping trip last year.
My signature is something that my grandmother (Gertrude Lillie a.k.a. Gertie) used to always say. It was her way of saying "Be prepared." She was a religious woman but also a practical one. She was a nurse and a good old fashioned prepper. She knitted, grew a subsistance garden, fished, hunted, snowshoed, canoed, camped, canned, fixed stuff, etc. She believed that "The good Lord will help us but he also gave us the good sense to be able to help ourselves and he expects us to do just that."
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#239286 - 01/14/12 04:18 AM
Re: Avatars and Signatures
[Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Registered: 08/31/11
Posts: 1233
Loc: Alaska
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Somehow, I've never managed to get an avatar. I probably will one of these days. But first I need to get a round tuit. My signature is inspired by Alaska, which has always seemed like a very different place to me. But somehow I seem to fit in here. I like quotes, here is another of my favorites: "Alaska is a foreign country significantly populated with Americans. Its languages extend to English. It's nature is its own." - John McPhee (from 'Coming Into The Country'.)
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"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more." -Dorothy, in The Wizard of Oz
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