Your avatar is talking to me..

[TravelingGal]

Hokay...say good bye to Le Roach Sans Chapeau....

Vive Le Roach Avec Le Beret!!!!

 

[Cailet]

you guys crack me up

love the new avatar TG!!

I''m always really shocked when people post their pictures - for some reason I always picture them completely different. I think there has been maybe one person that looked sort of how I pictured them.

This thread inspired me to check out how to change your avatar -- now I''ll have to be on the lookout for a new one....

 

[Christa]

Date: 9/15/2006 1:43:27 PM
Author: Mara
lol christa well actually my old avatar had on a jacket with a scarf and the beret, i think it was my yahoo avatar last winter.

but the funny thing is that i just changed my avatar on yahoo this week to this one ... i love the beret and always come back and forth to it on yahoo depending on the mood, so when TG said she always thinks of me with the beret i just thought it was ironic, because i had just changed my yahoo one over to the beret again for the first time in about 6 months! so that''s what i posted! hahha.

I feel better now--I do remember that one! I remember thinking how much the real you looks like your avatar when I saw a picture of you.

 

[Christa]

Here's what I wanted for my avatar. It's me and my kids--I have a photographer friend who loves to play with Photoshop. I couldn't get it sized right without distorting it or cutting it off in a weird place, though.

ETA: Ack, I didn't mean for it to be so huge.

 

[Rod]

How about this as your avatar??

 

[TravelingGal]

Date: 9/15/2006 1:38:18 PM
Author: decodelighted

Date: 9/15/2006 9:13:08 AM
Author: Blenheim
I thought Deco was darkhaired and very slim, and then I read that she has a size 10 or so finger. And I was trying to imagine a size 10 finger on a girl who wears, like, size 2 jeans when I finally realized that she''s more curvy and I''ve been assuming she looks exactly like the human version of her papillion. Oh dear.

Hee! I''m just glad you didn''t think I had two tone white/black hair like Miss. Tallulah --and certain evil Disney characters

I''m happy to report that I don''t have freakishly giant hands resting on petite hips ... & am all kinda curvily proportionate in a must-stop-eating-immediately way.

Deco, I always pictured you as "Bridget Jones". Curvy, prone to getting in a bit of trouble, and funny as hell!!!

 

[TravelingGal]

Rod, I like it...but would those stickers translate well if they were smaller? Hmm...

Christa, what a FUN pic!!! You are all so cute!

 

[aljdewey]

Date: 9/15/2006 1:49:40 PM
Author: TravelingGal
Hokay...say good bye to Le Roach Sans Chapeau....

Vive Le Roach Avec Le Beret!!!!

Uh.....I don''t get it.

It looks like a BACKPACK to me!!!!!!!!!!

Mwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

 

[aljdewey]

Date: 9/15/2006 2:03:35 PM
Author: Rod
How about this as your avatar??

Nope - that looks like a TV.

 

[Rod]

Date: 9/15/2006 2:11:33 PM
Author: aljdewey

Date: 9/15/2006 2:03:35 PM
Author: Rod
How about this as your avatar??

Nope - that looks like a TV.

OK....How about this then? Get it.....she's a travelingal (actually stolen from a Dooney and Bourke (sp?) ad........

 

[Dee*Jay]

Date: 9/15/2006 2:45:41 PM
Author: Rod

Date: 9/15/2006 2:11:33 PM

Author: aljdewey

Date: 9/15/2006 2:03:35 PM

Author: Rod

How about this as your avatar??

Nope - that looks like a TV.

OK....How about this then? Get it.....she's a travelingal (actually stolen from a Dooney and Bourke (sp?) ad........

Not sure about the D&B girl... now that I know what TG's avatar IS I'm actually kinda fond of it, LOL.

 

[Mara]

i LURVE the beret. tres chic.

 

[aljdewey]

Date: 9/15/2006 9:13:08 AM
Author: Blenheim

Aljdewey, you''ve always been the chain saw to me. I think I read somewhere that you didn''t tell the PS community that you were a woman at first and they assumed you were a man, and I thought ''Well, duh, you''re a chain saw and chain saws are masculine!''

And now I read that you weren''t always a chain saw.

No, I wasn''t.....in fact, my first avatar was the one below, which is non-gender specific. I intentionally didn''t specify if I was male or female, largely because I hate when people make preconceived assumptions about one''s POV based on gender.

When it finally came out that I was a woman, it was a RIOT. Almost like a mini-Crying Game. Poor Rich Sherwood nearly passed out right on his keyboard.

Date: 9/15/2006 12:25:04 PM
Author: Aussiegirl23

I am new enough to only have known you as the SCARY CHAINSAW girl... care to explain your not-so-typical avatar??
Velma sounds so much more innocent : ) But at this point, TAME in comparison!!

Hehehe - sure. It''s actually a riff on two things. Someone once referred to one of my posts as ''sharp'' and was joking that I should be called Hatchet Al. I joked back and said "no, it needs more power - Chainsaw Al!" Then we realized that there was a leaning reference to Chainsaw Al in the 90s (I think?)....Al Dunlop was a consultant for Sunbeam who became nicknamed Chainsaw Al. He was known for direct approach and downsizing.

The other part of the reference came from a post by one of the Houston gals that I''d met on a visit. She was mentioning how nice and bubbly I seemed in person, and this other person laughed and said "yeah, well, a chainsaw looks harmless too until you take the bladeguard off!"

After those two references, I thought it was funny and made myself the chainsaw....Chainsaw Al.

 

[flopkins]

alj - I also remember you as velma, can''t get past that, even though I''ve seen some pics of you on here. the chainsaw scares me.

Lorelei - I love your avatar, it just cracks me up every time I see it.

TG- I am loving the new avatar hehehehee....

EBree - I like your new pug pic... it makes me smile... his/her tongue looks so HUGE!! makes me feel like I want to lick an ice cream or something.

Blenheim - I remember your audrey hepburn/tiffany''s avatar, and that''s how I totally imagined you, until I saw some pics posted of you and your FI in LIW I think... so weird.

 

[belle]

hahahahhaa....cute new roach avatar tg! why is he wearing a coon skin hat though?

 

[Mara]

umm belle i know you live in the middle of nowhere *duck* but that is a BERET.

 

[belle]

the kind you fiind in a second hand store?

 

[Mara]

..if it was warm, she wouldn't wear much more..

 

[jcrow]

ha, i thought it was a bicycle helmet. it looks like a beret on you but not on TG.

 

[sumbride]

Ok, February2003bride needs to get over here and explain herself... Her avatar just screamed at me and stuck it''s tongue out! Now THAT''S talking!

 

[belle]

Date: 9/15/2006 4:00:04 PM
Author: Mara
..if it was warm, she wouldn''t wear much more..

i think i lourve her

 

[KimberlyH]

Christa,

You are stunning and not at all what I pictured (I was thinking mid-western looking dark hair, glasses).

 

[belle]

christa, the you pic is so cute!
i resized it for you (and even tested it out

)
so if you want, you can just save this pic and reaname it to use as your avatar.

 

[KimberlyH]

This thread inspired me to change my avatar...very silly, but just had to share.

 

[hlmr]

Date: 9/15/2006 4:13:03 PM
Author: belle

Date: 9/15/2006 4:00:04 PM
Author: Mara
..if it was warm, she wouldn''t wear much more..

i think i lourve her

Where have all the raspberry women gone?

 

[Christa]

Thanks, Belle! Not sure what I was doing wrong, but I''ll try it out when I get a minute to mess with it.

KimberlyH, thanks for the compliment! Funny the pictures we get in our minds, isn''t it? Actually I''m not sure what midwestern-looking would be, but I''m clear out here on the west coast.

 

[belle]

Date: 9/15/2006 4:33:33 PM
Author: KimberlyH
This thread inspired me to change my avatar...very silly, but just had to share.

yeah....

is there anything that might inspire you to change it back?

 

[Christa]

Date: 9/15/2006 4:33:33 PM
Author: KimberlyH
This thread inspired me to change my avatar...very silly, but just had to share.

Ooh, I like it! Showcases the bling in a very memorable way!

 

[TravelingGal]

Man, I thought I was being chic, but a coon hat? I can''t win!

Christa, I have to say, I love your current avatar...your dog speaks to me in a voice that a mexican guy might say in a western movie...

I notice Febbride''s this morning...I''ve seen it before but that animation always cracks me up.

 

[TravelingGal]

Maybe this one is better? Roach a-la-Prince?