Explain your Avatar and/or SN

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I have been dying to ask this for a while now....explain your avatar and / or SN!!

Would love to hear what your SN represents, and why you chose the avatar you have now.

I'll start....

I chose the SN shoegal because my previous nest SN was too much linked to my real name...so I stole Carrie Bradshaw's SN from the episode when she goes online to communicate with Aidan.

And...I picked my avatar because those Manolos are one of my favorite pairs of shoes, every time I see them online or in my closet I get happy.

What about you???

[pinkdutchtulips]

pink dutch tulips happen to be my favorite flowers !

[drloretta]

I have a PhD, and this is the only place anyone calls me Dr, LOL. Loretta is my bar name. I have a separate fake name on FB, and my real name is far from both, so I have a lot of confused people when I go to GTGs.

I did the build-your-own avatar thing recently and this doesn't look much like me, but oh well

[greekypie]

Greek family. I wanted a name that was short enough to appear in full on the main board. The "pie" was just a random addition.

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Are you asking this because you just saw my explanation in my AMA thread?

My dogs are Buck and Bella.

My avatar is completely meaningless, it was a random silly pic I took a the San Diego zoo shortly before we switch to proboards, and I never changed it. I have siggies and avatars turned off so I mostly forget they exist. It sucks but it's the only way I can get away with posting in an open work environment (and even then "get away with" is probably a loose term).

[aurora]

I used to live in the far north where I could enjoy the northern lights and I miss them. So gorgeous!

[Velvetshady]

My avatar is how I believe all warning signs should be presented (and cracks me up every time I see it).

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@buckybells that is too funny - I just saw this in your AMA thread too Love it.

I have always wondered about yours, actually. I always assumed there was some connection to your dogs...but then that darn meerkat would throw me for a loop.

greekypie - I always thought the pie at the end was a play on pi

[magpie]

my name is for one of my favorite AFL teams (Australian rules football), the Collingwood Magpies. Not that I ever get to watch the games since they took them away from the one channel that carried them here.

[Deleted]

Screen name is the first letter of my first name. I wanted something hard to google and not all that recognizable as "me".

Avatar is the logo of the now-defunct NY subway line that matches my screen name.

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Oct 1, 2013 16:32:50 GMT -5 aurora said:

I used to live in the far north where I could enjoy the northern lights and I miss them. So gorgeous!

I can see why from your avatar - I hear it is an otherworldly experience when you can see the lights!  Crazy beautiful.

[wanderlustfoodie]

I like to travel and eat. I am also clearly a very literal person

And I think tapirs are pretty much the cutest thing ever. On our honeymoon we were doing the night safari at the Singapore Zoo. We were on a tram that takes you around the big sections of the park so the tram turns a corner and there are two tapirs lying in the grass so close I could've reached out my hand and touched them (which I may or may not have tried to do before MH stopped me). I still totally practically leaped out of my seat I was so overcome with the cuteness. He said it was one of the most excited I'd ever been about animals (which I love generally) so it has stuck. 

Last year I fed a tapir named Machismo at the Belize Zoo. MH took a video where I look like I could drop dead from a happiness heart attack at any moment.

pinkdutchtulips : tulips are one of my most favorite flowers, too. We're planning a long weekend in Amsterdam next spring because I am dying to see them in bloom!

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Oct 1, 2013 16:32:51 GMT -5 Velvetshady said:

My avatar is how I believe all warning signs should be presented (and cracks me up every time I see it).

I am probably not the only person that FINALLY zoomed in enough to read the sign!  LOL.

I love the "no" symbol over the croc with the open mouth!

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wanderlustfoodie - awwwwwwwwwww on the Taipir story!!!! I am a huge huge animal lover as well. I can totally see you trying to sneak a little touch - those little guys are so adorable. How can you resist!?

[wanderlustfoodie]

Oct 1, 2013 16:38:02 GMT -5 @shoegal said:

wanderlustfoodie - awwwwwwwwwww on the Taipir story!!!! I am a huge huge animal lover as well. I can totally see you trying to sneak a little touch - those little guys are so adorable. How can you resist!?

I know! Plus I forgot another great tapir story which I just added - I fed one!!!

Ok, I will stop geeking out about the tapirs now.

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wanderlustfoodie - OMG MACHISMO!!!!!! I am super jealous. Feeding the animals = ultimate cuteness.

[Susie]

Mine is probably pretty self-explanatory. The only thing we're missing is that neither of the Doggies Derkins are actually named Hobbes. 

If Puppy D had been a boy, it might've happened, but I just couldn't get on board with a she-Hobbes.

[glynn]

My name is a short version of what I had on the nest. My DD2 name is part or it with lots of letter missing. She is in 1st grade and told her teacher that she wanted to just right her intials because she had the longest name every..... It is long and I hate if she just uses part of it so I make her right it all.

Avatar is just one I made, me 20 years younger I guess.

[warren]

Warren is from my favorite movie Empire Records. There was already a SexyRexy on one of the message boards, so I didn't want to cause confusion. Favorite scene from the movie involved a quote "My name isn't f$&@ing Warren" and it is accurate, so I went with it.

Photo is from the movie.

Previous screenname (vann*daley)- I used on this and other boards since '05 was a play on Art Vandelay from Seinfeld and my real name, but my BSC SIL ruined that so I had to become more anonymous.

[HoneySpider]

Honey Spider is a fairly unknown song by Smashing Pumpkins, my absolute fave band.

My avatar is me

[DarcyLongfellow]

It's my "stripper name" -- your pet's name plus the street you grew up on.

Mr. Darcy was my dog's name (he died a month ago ), and his picture is my avatar. He was named after Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice :-)

[shortstax]

I am short. I like pancakes. The end

Although, this spread has inspired me to add an avatar pic!

[hellonurse]

My s/n is a playful take on my occupation (and the opening line of cheesy guys trying to hit on me). My avatar was just something I found randomly on google. I wanted something besides the alien looking avatar, but didn't want a pic of myself.

[rootbeerfloat]

My avatar is a doll, which shares my name.

And I like root beer and vanilla ice cream.

[audette]

My screenname is a nickname I've had for quite some time. Most of my friends would actually recognize me by it.

My avatar is a photo of my teddy bear. He's my travelling buddy, and gets squished into my carryon whenever I'm on the road - for work, for vacation, for whatever. If it's a roadtrip, he's usually sitting in the passenger seat (unless DH is there, and then he's usually sitting on the center console, or on top of a bag in the backseat (so he can see out the windows).

[kateross]

It's my non-witty play at "Champagne taste on a beer budget".  I wish to live a Kate Spade lifestyle, but I have a Ross Dress for Less budget.  Lame.

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Oct 1, 2013 16:54:44 GMT -5 DarcyLongfellow said:

It's my "stripper name" -- your pet's name plus the street you grew up on.

Mr. Darcy was my dog's name (he died a month ago ), and his picture is my avatar. He was named after Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice :-)

I'm so sorry about your pup

On a completely different note, have you read Mr. Darcy's Little Sister?
I really enjoyed it...huge Pride and Prejudice fan!

www.amazon.com/Darcys-Little-Sister-Prejudice-Continues/dp/B005CDVFS6

[alleinesein]

avatar- favorite cd and also because I love the the cover art
sn- fav song; my old screen names were sn's that i used on other forums

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audette - that is SO SO CUTE about your teddy!!!! It is important that he can see out the windows on road trips, adorable.

kateross - that's not lame at all! Really creative, actually!

[DarcyLongfellow]

Oct 1, 2013 17:00:03 GMT -5 @shoegal said:

Oct 1, 2013 16:54:44 GMT -5 DarcyLongfellow said:

It's my "stripper name" -- your pet's name plus the street you grew up on.

Mr. Darcy was my dog's name (he died a month ago ), and his picture is my avatar. He was named after Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice :-)

I'm so sorry about your pup

On a completely different note, have you read Mr. Darcy's Little Sister?
I really enjoyed it...huge Pride and Prejudice fan!

www.amazon.com/Darcys-Little-Sister-Prejudice-Continues/dp/B005CDVFS6

Thanks. We have another dog, so that helps the house not seem so empty, but I miss my little buddy.

Thanks for the rec! I've read some other P&P fan fic, but not that one. I'll check it out!