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Originally Posted by jmercer

WYSIWYG - Me puffin' a cigar and suckin' up some tawny post.

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Awesome - John Wayne and Hunter Thompson came to mind when I saw this pic - life looks good on you, great smile!

My avatar and my screen name go together. It is a likeness of my last dog. She was a purebred rez dog, in the literal form. It is often used as a nickname for non native guys who live on or hang around the reservation, which is where it comes in for me. So the rez dog and the RezDog.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Awesome - John Wayne and Hunter Thompson came to mind when I saw this pic - life looks good on you, great smile!

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HST is a favorite... of mine.

I was raised by my grandparents from the time I was 6 months old. When I was young I shaved alongside my dad (grandpa) many times with my plastic DE. My great aunt took that picture.

My wife found it and made a collage with some other photos for my birthday last August when I got my first real DE.

Have a great day...

Mine is simply of my grandfather on my dad's side.

I never got to meet him. I was to be the first grandchild but he died 4 months before I was born. I was named after both of my grandfathers first names; My first name of Roy was my mothers father's and my middle name of Audley was my dad's fathers name. I believe it's Old English and means from the meadow. Until the internet came along I'd only seen my middle name in print outside of the family once; there is a street in Victoria BC named Audley.

I have two young boys and for a while we watched the recent remake of The Lorax. (Dr. Suess story). I was trying to grow my mustache and wanted something a little unique and still light hearted. Nothing overly deep.

I have to say there are a lot of great stories in this thread. Thanks to Obie for starting it and everyone for contributing, no matter how simple or complicate the stories are they are all very interesting.

My avatar is my 1892-vintage Lachenal New Model tenor-treble concertina. English system, 56-keys, fully chromatic, four octaves from G3 to G7.

In a "tip of the hat" tribute to the great Don Martin of Mad magazine, my avatar is always of Ringo Fonebone, in one form or other. I feel a certain connectedness with Ringo and what he went through. As I tend to stand up and champion the lost cause.... wherever it may be.... I mean.... it's lost, isn't it? I feel Ringo makes a suitable avatar.

The following is a brief description, taken from Wikipedia, of the beginnings of Captain Klutz, to whom I pay homage.

Ringo Fonebone was a hopelessly inept boy. He was utterly absorbed in reading comic books, to the point that he was kicked out of his parents' house, as well as a vocational school he tried to attend and a flophouse (the last expulsion left him in nothing but a set of red long johns and dotted boxer shorts). He realized what a mess his life was, and as he tried to commit suicide by hanging himself. The towel he used as a rope broke. He fell to earth, inadvertently acquiring a mask (originally a woman's hat being thrown out by her irate husband), and finally crash-landed in the middle of a robbery, in long-johns, his "mask" and towel "cape", distracting the robber long enough for the police to capture him. The robber's angry exclamation, "Why, you klutz!," was taken by the dazed (and temporarily amnesiac) Ringo as his name, and he responded to the officers' questions regarding his identity with: "I'm...a klutz, captain." The police thought he had said he was "Captain Klutz", and the rest was history.

Regards

Kaptain "I'm so broke... I can't afford to pay attention" Zero

I have not read Mad Magazine since the 70's when I would sit in the high school library and read Mad Magazine while I was supposed to be studying. I found it to be addicting but really have not thought of it since then. I wonder if it is anything like it used to be...that is, I wonder if it possibly could be as good as it used to be?