Why the Nicknames, Avatars?

[chicharrero]

My nickname is the adjective of those born in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The picture I liked:
A soldier of the Russian Civil War with a happy face, playing the accordion.
The music amid the brutality of war.

[3Turner]

Originally Posted by mbauer

Time for another bump.

Still a great thread.

Mike

Yes, yes it is. I suppose I missed it all the previous times.

My username is a little simple, Turner for my last name and the 3 was because at the time I started using this handle, there were only 3Turner's in my little family. Now, as of 3 years ago, there are 4...but I figured why change it? I've used the 3turner in other forums, but some forums I've been to it has been taken. So I usually just use a variation...or 4Turner.

The avatar is the logo I made to put on the covers of the repaints I made that are being sold on that one internet webshop for digital cardmodels....what was it called?? ???

[spaceagent-9]

I was told years ago to change my name from my email to a avatar, so I chose a guy who made a ventriloquist dummy that looked like a Halloween costume I went as one year, and called myself spaceagent-9. he made a routine and went around the bars, with his sarcastic argumentative dummy, made a few grand and moved to Florida.
since the name was open and I loved the routine, I use that and any pics I like for my avatar.

[airdave]

AirDave - refers to the fact that I am an Airbrush artist.
Back in the 90s, I needed a moniker...a signature name.
The name was directly inspired by Air Jordan - Michael Jordan,
who starred in Space Jam...which I really liked because Bill Murray was in it.

Avatar? - its just a really stupid movie.

[Amccombs3]

My name is, well, my name. The avatar takes a little explaining. I took up geocaching last year, and got into the practice of leaving an origami rose made of silver foil paper as a trade item in certain caches. The picture was the closest one I could find to a silver rose for my geocaching avatar, and I decided to use it here too. I am a girl, after all.

Anne

[cbg]

cbg. .. my initials.
(christopher blanka greiling)

other sites I login to unfortunately have that combo taken, so I go with 'ceebeegee'.

avatar is my dad's favorite movie star. . .can anyone here I.D.?
cbg

[DWest]

My name is Dan West so after much thought I came up with DWest. My avatar is a cartoon of one of my stock cars, yep the body was a '57 Chevy, it was very fast, handled great and nearly got me killed...lol. I lost most of my hearing in that car from bouncing my head off the roll cage, ruined my new helmet and junked the car but I did get a very nice trophy for one of the best wrecks all season - that was in 1969 and I drove what may be my last race a couple of years ago.

[airdave]

Originally Posted by cbg

avatar is my dad's favorite movie star. . .can anyone here I.D.?
cbg

looks like Errol Flynn in The Dawn Patrol

[ghshinn]

My name used to be Sargon, but too soon many began using it. So I figured the best way to keep from being copied was to use my initials (gh) attached to my last name. My full name is Garland Harris Shinn, Jr., though I dropped the Jr. many years ago.

My avatar is our late Beagle, Molly. She loved getting her pic taken, and always mugged for the camera.

Garland

[cbg]

@ Dave,
You must know your old movies and movie stars. . .
cbg