Avatar /Forum Name

I saw this on another board and thought it was kind of nice. Tell us what your avatar means and a little about your forum name. Mine is pretty simple- the picture is my dog ( yellow lab) and he is my #1 that goes EVERYWHERE with me. He jogs with me- hikes trails- collects fatwood- you name it he is there. He is a permanet fixture in the back seat of my FJ and is in the front seat when my wife isn't with me. His name is " Friend" and he truly is a blessing in my life <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />. My wife of almost 40 years is my best friend <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> and he is with her & I constantly. The name ordawg is easy. I am from Oregon and a SY dawg !! Some of yours I know- just thought it might be nice for some of the new guys <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />. Thanks <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Mine is from the Simpsons movie. Homer adopted a pig. A guy at work mentioned that his son's little league baseball team was called the Spider-Pigs. I thought it was kinda cool.

My avatar is of a DMDC with my family in the background on a hike about a year ago.

My forum name is my real name.

You can call me "Joe".

Hi, how are ya?!

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My name is from the Bobby Darin song,Mac The Knife,I just substituted my name for Mac's.Seems to fit.
My avatar shows my appreciation for SYKCO and its great products.

My forum name is my nickname Jrod, I added the en cause I like the sound of it, and 5446 has been my number for a long time, and its from my favorite Sublime song. My avatar is Brak, from Space Ghost, he is some kind of space pirate cat

My forum name is my real name and as at the time I was the only 'furriner' kicking round the Yard, I thought I'd add the national reference.. I am very proud of being JYD 3- the first non yank to get the coveted title! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I've also never had any trouble buying knives off Dan and Patti- so thanks for that guys! I love my Yard knives. (Some American stores think the rest of the world are all thieves and liars)

My avatar was found on a Yahoo image search but it just screamed British and was just perfect for the Yard with the spike colar and the traditional 'two fingers up' rude salute! (I did check you guys didn't mind the rude salute, family forum after all).

(By the way the origin of the two finger salute is from the 100 year war if I remember correctly. The mean nasty French cut the fingers off captured English longbow-men (the French didn't like having their knights shot to pieces from a great distance!) so the salute just means 'you haven't caught me yet frog!' In fairness to the French I think we may have started the 100 year war by trying to steal the French throne..)

Oh yes, Whichdog, bless him, edited my avatar to give it a black background as he thought it looked better! He also did a pumpkin head dog too, during the craze a couple of years ago! Anybody else remember that? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

When I enlisted in the Marines, Hogan's Heroes was a popular television show. One of the characters was Colonel Klink, the bumbling Kommandant of the P.O.W. camp where Hogan was "held". Because of a vague similarity to my last name and the fact that I was a Private, my SSgt. Drill Instructor dubbed me "Private Klink". He certainly was NOT going to address me as Colonel Klink! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I tucked that away in my mind until I joined Swamp Rat in 02', and decided to use Private Klink as my forum name there, and here since then. I was going to use a picture of the Sad Sack cartoon character for an avatar, but when Dan Busse named me the GodFather of the DogFather - the GodFather won out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My forum name is what i do. My kids spelled it that way. Guess thats how they
spell when they are texting or somethin. So i went with it.

my nickname is "Bushman" and i love the Aussie Bushman beer. The "5" is a play on words.....Bushman5........the 5 is a S....

My forum name is my email address( minus the @yahoo.com part) and my avatar is my S5 after I decided to beat it up a little bit in Iraq last year. Its an empty 55 gallon drum that it is sticking out of.

my forum name is my nickname & the avatar is about to be replaced w/ my new boy!

Alright Phil - way to go!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Congrats on a boy Vance <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />- bring on the pictures and specs <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

When I was in college I had a girlfriend ask me if Seth was short for anything, I laughed and said "what would it be short for Sethrotull" the name has stuck ever since.

The avatar is a dog with a pig costume and rat tail, I thought it was very appropriate for a Bussekin forum.

Seth - your avatar is GREAT! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

On car/motorcycle forums, I use MRpilot, because I drive a MR2. For gun/knife forums, I kept the MR and just added pink, as in Mr. Pink from one of my favorite Quentin Tarantino movies, Reservoir Dogs.



No significance in the avatar, just thought it was fun and use to be a fan of the cartoon/movies growing up.

oh sorry guys NOT A HUMAN

this is the new "boy"

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for some reason i cant shrink them to avatar size so...

meet...

MAXIMUS aka MAX

Although you fooled me, I have to say that that is a cute pup! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Great looking pup Vance <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />...........I did get fooled- but your pup will soon be as big a part of you as children <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />. Our lab is around 95 pounds and sleeps on the bed every night. We remodeled the entire house with him in mind- bought special furniture and he LOVES Egyptian cotton sheets <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />. Oh yeah- we do spoil him a lil bit <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />. Kudos on a great looking boy there <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

BTW good topic ordawg

My avatar is just a good beer, and easily identifiable as ME!

P-Easy was just a nickname a stoner friend made up for me in high school.

Thanks- I just thought others had wondered as I often did. Looks like I was correct. Good to know your friends <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I am the SKUNK HUNTER. A few summers ago we had a BAD problem with skunks in our neighborhood. I killed 8 with my RWS Diana .177 pellet rifle. Hence the name. And when I was looking for an Avatar, this one just screamed at me. Note the Plunger sticking out of the barrel. Thought THAT was funny. And the Guy all dressed out in green makes it even funnier in my opinion.

My Name is Randy and I am an addict (oh, to knives)! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Hey, I'm a big Sublime fan too. I have dozens of their cds and memorabilia. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

My info is self explanatory.

Randy - the only way you could improve your avatar would be to replace the plunger with a cork! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My forum name is my real name, Dan Melone. My avatar used to change when I was on everyday. Unfortunately I cannot log in everyday like I used to but I am able to quickly check in everyday.

So my avatar is of three dogs with hillbilly teeth, which started around a year or so ago when everyone started using hillbilly toothed dogs.

I still have an avater with an orange on the head as well, that too was another fad once on the SYF. I may not post as often but I do love my SY blades and I find myslef using my Muck and DM the most due to size and my location.

Good thread!!!

My avatar is a pic of my buddy. His papers say Yellow Lab but he looks kinda half yellow/half chocolate so nobody wanted to pick him out of the litter, but i liked that he was different and thought he was a hansome pup so i brought him home. I have three daughters and consider him my only son so i named him Junior

My forum name is a play on my real name Mike-C. At work I was always qouting the gangster character Mugsy from the old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Whenever i got pissed at work i would spout "now Mugsy is REALLY mad!"
The guys started calling me Mug-C. 66 is the year i was born

fun topic ordawg

Hey everyone. My forum name was just what some of the guys I ride with used to put my name under in their phone because of the bike I rode. Had psycho stickers on my gsxr1000. And as for my avatar its a Picture of my German Shepherd Capone, when he was 8 months old. Figured it be a good fit being in the YARD.

sumo because is because of my nickname from jr high on--wrestled hwt and I looked like a little sumo wrestler at the time.
j--is for Jeff
275--the weight limit for hwt when I wrestled.

Right now my avatar is a statue at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in OKC, OK. End of the Trail. I have always liked this statue and I probably felt like I was at the end of my trail that day--who knows.

That is one great lookin pup I will say <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />.When we picked ours from the litter everyone had others picked for us- he " Friend" picked us and we feel blessed every single day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />. That is one thing I really like about the yard- everyone loves their dogs <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />.We also have 5 cats( rescue) and we enjoy them too-Thanks <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My current avatar is the tool I was hoping the Yard might bring out but as they didn't I had someone else make it.
My forum name is because I used to work at a coal mine and in England they call them Pits, hence Pitman.

Chickenplucker ia a nickname for anyone in the poultry industry. I work in sales for a chicken processor. We sell to the largest chicken restaurant chains in the world as well as THE biggest retailer in the world. My avatar is my Ratweiler and my Horton necker. I just like the way the photo turned out.

ordawg, great idea for a thread!
My avatar is my mutt, 1/2 beagle, 1/2 german shorthair pointer, smartest dog I ever had. Forum name is from the crossbow I bought last fall. I changed the c to a k by mistake on the first forum I signed up for and just stuck with it.

I grew up in Zululand and Tagati is the Zulu name for a medicine man or witch doctor. The avatar pic is from one of my favorite movies - Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - a great London gangster movie. I lived in London for nearly 16 years before moving to Seattle so both are a little nod to the previous countries I lived in.

I thought thats where that picture was from.Great movie!

I love American Bulldogs and have had many. This pic is of Oslo, better known as Ozzie, and I took the photo during a power failure in a hurricane down here in FLA. His nickname is Junkyard and he's closely related to the Scrapyard dogs.

I've played a little pool and hence the name...

Private Klink named me. I think it was the hat. Avatar was a pic my daughter took of some crazy old man in the back yard.

This is a test to see if I finally figured out how to get a pic on my avatar. If it works, it is a picture of our little hiking buddy at the white tank mountains and my first Scrap Yard knife, a Green/Black Scrapper 5. My forum name IS my last name. Weird enough that people think it is a nickname or a joke. You can laugh, I am.
Love the Scrap Yard Forum and I'll try to post more.

Hooker was also the name of a Yankee general who always had plenty of camp followers with his troops. They called the camp followers, Hooker's. Despite that, it's a fine family name.

They were called Hooker's girls when he rounded them up and made them stay in area of town, and allowed his men to visit them at an appropriate time. Great for morale ya know.

Ok, I gotta say it, Your initials aren't T. J. are they? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

And there i go dating myself again, well not actually DATEING myself, Heck NO WAY would I ever go out with me. Oh wait, am I talking out loud again? OH NO. Sleep depravation will do strange things to you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

Ignore that man in this post. He gets out every once in a while and thinks he can shoot skunks. Just read his tag line if you don't beleive us.

Fightin' Joe was truly a man of vision, ahead of his time. Grant didn't like him much, though. Maybe he was too drunk to appreciate the Hookers. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Avatar is just a pic that I thought was appropriate for this forum...hence, The Yard and Junk yard dogs...etc. And, I just like the avatar.

KnotSlip is just a variation of SlipKnot which is a metal band that I like a lot.
Nothing too fancy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Avatar is a slightly modified version of the Netto logo (european grocery store chain). Thought it was funny to use it here and the color makes it stand out.

The name is the sunglasses I wear, Oakley Monsterdogs, a forum name I use a lot. Just serendipitous that it fit so well here.

My avatar is a 4inch Search and Rescue blade designed in part by River-8 and made by Bill Siegle. My forum name is from the TV show "The Unit" the team leaders handle is Snakedoctor or snakedoc.

JerseyBob since my name is Bob & I hail from the Island of Jersey, Channel Islands (20 miles from France but part of the British Isles)
Avatar is "Jack" my sister's dog as a puppy

"When a group of officials came to see Lincoln about the rumors of Grant's drinking, Lincoln is supposed to have said, 'If it makes fighting men like Grant, then find out what he drinks, and send my other commanders a case!' ".

True story. Unfortunately for the Confederacy, Grant kept drinking. If McClelland had followed Lincoln's advice, Richmond would have surely fallen at least a year sooner.

My avatar is a tight cropping of a version of the Scrap Yard artwork I did a little while back. The master file is called 'Deustch Dogge', which is the German name for the giant mastiff breed commonly know in the English speaking world as Great Dane, or the rest of the world - German Mastiff.

Cool topic.

When i first came to the yard i couldn't think of a name. I was listing to my favorite band " The Deftones " when i was setting up my account. A song called " Knife Party came on. So that was the name i used for awhile.

Last year i changed my name to Left4Dead cause all my friends make fun of me cause im really into personal preparedness , guns , and high end knives. I always joke with them and say " When SHTF you guys are gonna bail out and leave me for dead ".

Doesn't bother me tho im all about hunkering down and standing my ground. My avatar is some traditional tattoo flash art of a pair of brass knuckles , a straight razor , and a black jack. with a banner of the words " Love Thy Neighbor " It symbolizes my love for edged weapons and impact weapons. I plan to get my avatar tatted on my arm one day.

By the way if you guys didnt know my real name is " Nick "

Ireash - My daughters names combined

The avatar is the work of a buddy that does graphic arts. The head is another good friend whom we have nicknamed "RUFF" for SO many reasons.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/footinmouth.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" />

if you read the fine print youll get a kick out of it......

And you watched the TV show for the story line right!!!

Wow that Heather Lockleer could act....I think...did anyone notice LOL

Dan

I was too busy watching Valerie Bertinelli
on One Day at a Time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


(lets not forget WonderWoman too!)

thepitbulloflove(how or why he took that as his name i do not know)is my brother, so i am the pitsbro, 52 was my number in highschool. the avatar is from one of the greatest movies of all time.

This is a great thread. I wish everyone would chime in and share there reasons/etc.

Heather Lockeer! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> I Always wanted to get stopped by a cop that looked like her! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Or Heather Thomas! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

that was the fall guy with lee majors

Yes! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/loopy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/loopy.gif" alt="" />

Heather L or Heather T. Who cares, IT'S A HEATHER!!!!

But I do think that Heather T is (or was at least) prettier!

my forum name is one of my nicknames that my friends call me by. and my avatar is a picture of the firearm i carry at work everyday.

Coyote is my nickname
BC is where I live
My avatar is a mixture of my love of Iron Maiden music and my Scottish heritage

haha i like your avatar coyote. i remember when i use to know how to play most of iron maiden songs.