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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 5:39 pm
(August 23, 2015 at 4:59 pm)MTL Wrote: No, I do not look anything like my avatar, aside from the fact that I'm female.
However, I chose my avatar because (probably like most people)
it is representative of my personality.
In what way? Is it that you like opera? Have a particular interest in Lina Cavalieri? Or is it more specific to that image instead of another of Lina Cavalieri; perhaps you like bird watching?
It is an interesting image, I believe created by Piero Fornasetti.
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 5:55 pm
(August 23, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (August 23, 2015 at 4:59 pm)MTL Wrote: No, I do not look anything like my avatar, aside from the fact that I'm female.
However, I chose my avatar because (probably like most people)
it is representative of my personality.
In what way? Is it that you like opera? Have a particular interest in Lina Cavalieri? Or is it more specific to that image instead of another of Lina Cavalieri; perhaps you like bird watching?
It is an interesting image, I believe created by Piero Fornasetti. LOL opera!!! yes, I do happen to appreciate some opera, but that is really not what I meant!
And I DO like birdwatching, quite a bit, as a matter of fact;
but really it just represents the part of me that is curious, investigative, observant,
but also watches from something of a distance;
watching but not close enough to touch, as it were.
And you are right, it is a Fornasetti.
I also like it because it evokes a sense of the vintage; of the style of a bygone era,
which also resonates with me.
What about your avatar?
Fairly sure it is Greek, esp. given your handle,
but I'm afraid I don't know its specific meaning, if there is one.
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 6:03 pm
(August 23, 2015 at 5:55 pm)MTL Wrote: (August 23, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: In what way? Is it that you like opera? Have a particular interest in Lina Cavalieri? Or is it more specific to that image instead of another of Lina Cavalieri; perhaps you like bird watching?
It is an interesting image, I believe created by Piero Fornasetti. LOL opera!!! yes, I do happen to appreciate some opera, but that is really not what I meant!
And I DO like birdwatching, quite a bit, as a matter of fact;
but really it just represents the part of me that is curious, investigative, observant,
but also watches from something of a distance;
watching but not close enough to touch, as it were.
And you are right, it is a Fornasetti.
I also like it because it evokes a sense of the vintage; of the style of a bygone era,
which also resonates with me.
What about your avatar?
Fairly sure it is Greek, esp. given your handle,
but I'm afraid I don't know its specific meaning, if there is one.
Actually, I just found it.
Off a Greek vase, a woodcut illustration depicting the hedonistic mantra of "wine, women and song"
...basically the "sex, drugs and rock n' roll" of earlier times.
Nice. I like it.
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 6:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2015 at 6:26 pm by Pyrrho.)
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 6:51 pm
(August 22, 2015 at 10:53 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: I am the holy trinity, of wine, women, and song. How could I not look like three things?
And that is what I worship, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Keep it coming O' Glorified One.
As to my Avatar, it is from my younger years, before the grey took over.
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 7:07 pm
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 7:11 pm
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 7:17 pm
Hmm. Yeah, when I was 12 I was a spitting image of Dipper Pines.
Now I look a little more like Soos, but... whatever doods.
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 7:22 pm
My avatar is actually a pic from a family reunion. However, I changed the eye color.
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RE: Does Your Avatar Look Anything Like You?
August 23, 2015 at 7:38 pm
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