Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.

[Dandontdare]

Aha - now I get it - I couldn't make out the picture from the background lines when it was small, so I thought it was some strange runelike symbol.

Now if I could only work out what the hell Tordelback's is supposed to be!

[Mike Gloady]

I've given up trying to work out what most of the avatars are meant to represent.  Except the obvious ones, naturally.  Does anyone have a good story about theirs?

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Ok.  How about a story?  Anyone?  *tumbleweed moment*

[Bouwel]

Now if I could only work out what the hell Tordelback's is supposed to be!

It's Stickleback!

And if you really, really want I can tell you how I came by the nick of Bouwel, and how it relates to my avatar..or not as the case may be.

-Bouwel-

[Dandontdare]

When every avatar was tiny, the animated ones (like Bou's kicky boots) really  impressed me and that's what I aspired to. My current one is my default doodle, but with moving eyes, and I love it! I'm so pleased with myself (as a techno-ignoramus) to be able to create any animation, that I think I'll stick with it for a while.

[Paul faplad Finch]

I picked mine from the characters available on the site, same way I got my old Sancho Panzer one before the site went all doolally - which happened while I was off the board for a couple of weeks and confused me something rotten when I came back on - for the simple reason that I have absolutely no idea how to bring images from outside the site.

As to why I chose them, Sancho was to show love to a character I felt had been unfairly crapped  on over the years and my current one was because Sancho wasn't available so my nephew picked one at random.

Hows that for meaningful subtext. Truth is I'd go without but the posts just look a bit barren.