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Bassora - Posted - 11/12/2009: 19:50:08
There are some really interesting avatars used at the Banjo Hangout.
I was wondering how people came about choosing their specific avatar. Is it simply a favorite photo, or an image someone found amusing, or maybe something that has a meaning to the user, or some other reason?
You tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.
Bassora Mo
from near the Big Mo
1four5 - Posted - 11/12/2009: 20:03:59
My Rescued Greyhounds are my other passion. They keep me young.
Dean
beeliner - Posted - 11/12/2009: 20:52:49
I just like EARL.
beeliner. Revis Martin. When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7 [KJV]
pandjlocke - Posted - 11/12/2009: 20:53:51
Just li'l ol' me!
Beware of the urgent crowding out the important - C.E. Hummel
Paddy
SJL - Posted - 11/12/2009: 21:18:24
Mine may be a bit morbid, but it is a picture that Chris Quinn took when he and I went to pick up my Hatfield Custom. On the way back we stopped at the Monroe Childhood home in Rosine, then went to visit the Cemetery to see Bill's grave. I love the picture that Chris took, it is a reminder of my visit to the birthplace of Bluegrass.
"If the woman is alive at the end of the song, it ain't Bluegrass".
2007 Hatfield Walnut Custom
1976 (?) Aria Pro Tree of Life
bigfeller - Posted - 11/12/2009: 21:21:03
My banjo is camera shy.
Travis
backtothefuture - Posted - 11/12/2009: 22:07:01
Avatar - Why'd you pick yours?
Because............................
It would look silly playing it with a bow. 
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Dennis
 
Edited by - backtothefuture on 11/12/2009 22:07:44
Bisbonian - Posted - 11/12/2009: 22:19:21
I drew my own, to reflect a bit of my personality and how I feel about playing the banjo. Works for me (and at least one other).
"When Banjos are Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Banjos."
banjonz - Posted - 11/12/2009: 22:20:39
Mines a well loved Kiwi icon here!
Wayne
New Zealand
My short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be.
Also, my short-term memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Bill Rogers - Posted - 11/12/2009: 23:16:58
Narcissism
Bill
OM45GE - Posted - 11/13/2009: 03:23:04
I've changed mine quite a few times but have stuck with this one for a while.
I'm an avid motorcyclist (it was 32 F when I left the house this morning at 4:30 AM for a 40 mile ride - that should tell you something). The suicidal gas pump is a play on the great gas mileage we bikers enjoy. It's on a variety of products like t-shirts and coffee mugs at a rider supply house I buy a lot of stuff from. I feel it is unusual and captures another side of me from my music.
"But if there were no music
Then I would not get through" - Shawn Colvin
RevSteve58 - Posted - 11/13/2009: 03:26:37
Mine is the logo for my ministry, Faithful Worship Ministry.
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"But the greatest of these is love."
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fynger - Posted - 11/13/2009: 04:39:32
Its just....ME.
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Have you hugged your Banjo today ?
JSnood - Posted - 11/13/2009: 04:43:55
When I was a teenager - in the 1970s - living on the lower half of Manhattan the local socialist and communist organizations engaged in a global dispute regarding the politics of Enver Hoxha, the leader of Albania. I really never understood whether he was a Stalinist or a Maoist, but there were flyers all over town for a while for meetings to discuss him and one had labeled him a Dogmato-Revisionist, a phrase that I've since loved. So, I use a picture of him as an avatar.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
The more something is described as "unbelievable", the simpler the explanation for it will be.
Mopick - Posted - 11/13/2009: 05:19:23
Mine is a picture of the old Missouri Pacific railroad station in Poplar Bluff Missouri, where I was born and raised.
I live in the mountains.....
The mountainous region of Central Florida.
Sugarloaf Mountain; 312 feet above sea level.
http://www.banjohangout.org/myhango...albumid=3256
Randy
Don Borchelt - Posted - 11/13/2009: 05:20:39
I thought it made me look handsome.
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"My mission in life is really very simple. I want to make somebody's dinner better." - Chef Paul Prudhomme
Check out my webpage.
R Buck - Posted - 11/13/2009: 05:25:03
Because it is what it is!
RobBob
Music; the best way to count time. It is a journey not a destination.
www.blueridgerounders.com
Bob Robert - Posted - 11/13/2009: 05:40:27
Because I like the old Pogo comic by Walt Kelly, and Churchy's playing a banjo of sorts.
I also have an avatar picture of Col Kilgore in Apocalypse Now that I Photoshopped so that he's holding one of my banjos instead of his original M16. I don't particularly like the movie, but I thought it made for a humorous avatar.
Bob
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot
kyblugrass - Posted - 11/13/2009: 05:44:35
I change mine with the seasons.... right now? It's BB time. 
Scott
“You Can Hang a Sign on a Pig Saying It's a Horse...But It’s Still Just a Pig.”
bubbalouie - Posted - 11/13/2009: 05:53:32
My wife found this tree frog when she was watering her flowers.This was my best pic!
B.L
jazzylynne - Posted - 11/13/2009: 06:04:10
It's me with my banjo and my motorcycle. Plus you can't see what I look like.
Lynne
dingo - Posted - 11/13/2009: 06:28:21
Mine is of the women of the Flats family, without these gals, we might of been without one of our music contributors. Plus they have 2 of my favorite instruments.
Jill
What Happens in the Corn Field, Stays in the Corn Field.
ZUEG - Posted - 11/13/2009: 06:29:24
It,s me showing pride in my unique craft.
ZUEG
Louisiana Rose - Posted - 11/13/2009: 06:33:58
It's Me
If you are gonna be out of date, do it right
Sam 2 - Posted - 11/13/2009: 06:36:04
It looks like a goat that my friend ownes and it reminds me of her when I look at it
and it's cute
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People will forget what you say and do, but they will never forget how you treated them.
fiddlebuster - Posted - 11/13/2009: 06:38:36
I like killer penguins.
The way I see it, the Good Lord made us all, and if we're good enough for him, we ought to be good enough for each other. Jed Clampett
Gary Blanchard - Posted - 11/13/2009: 07:41:14
A couple of years ago during a trip to the Berkshires I stopped by the Guthrie Center to see the old church. I couldn't resist having my picture taken there.
Too bad Arlo wasn't around that day.
Gary Blanchard
"an outlier among outliers"
http://www.gbandf.com
edsnyder - Posted - 11/13/2009: 08:22:28
It is the logo of the jam group I play with. I put in together in AutoCAD. I had been changing avatars fairly often , but like this one and have stayed with it now
Ed e
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever!
Bassora - Posted - 11/13/2009: 08:46:12
quote:
Originally posted by Bassora
You tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.
A lot of you have told "me yours," now "I'll tell you mine." I enjoy making drawings of old-time musicians. The fiddle player illustration is something I drew one afternoon from a photo in the "Old-Time Herald." At my house, it's old-time all the timeBassora Mo from near the Big Mo
tonehead - Posted - 11/13/2009: 13:54:46
It's three of my favorite musicians Doc,Ralph,David. At Merlefest 2008.
Play it like you mean it.
jump street - Posted - 11/13/2009: 14:29:57
I don't tend to have photos of myself on my laptop and I haven't taken any decent pictures of my banjo yet.
I do, however, have any number of ridiculous pictures like Flapjack and such littering my "My Pictures" folder.
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Viva La Persistence
plunknplinkntwang - Posted - 11/13/2009: 14:37:59
I used my passport photo
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm - Winnie the Churchill
BanjoPicker96 - Posted - 11/13/2009: 14:52:43
This is the only decent banjo-related pic on my computer.
"There once was a picker named Bruno
who said "If there's one thing I do know,
guitars are fine,
and mandolins devine,
but banjos are numero uno"
Forever Bluegrass.
musicman93 - Posted - 11/13/2009: 14:58:24
quote:
Originally posted by BanjoPicker96
This is the only decent banjo-related pic on my computer.
"There once was a picker named Bruno
who said "If there's one thing I do know,
guitars are fine,
and mandolins devine,
but banjos are numero uno"
Forever Bluegrass.
Mine is the only decent music related pic on my computer! -John "Overwhelming force may crush truth to earth but, crushed or not the truth is still the truth." -John S. Tilly
oly - Posted - 11/13/2009: 14:59:40
Mine was free and available
Edited by - oly on 11/13/2009 15:01:08
jbanjoist - Posted - 11/13/2009: 15:00:42
It's purty.
Jbanjoist
I'm a NECHVILLIAN!
EDUMACATE YOSEF!
You don't know until you KNOW.
Post unto others as you would have them post unto you.
eagleisland - Posted - 11/13/2009: 16:38:06
Mine is a closeup of the headstock inlay on my custom Hatfield - the visual representation of my banjo's name, The Compass Rose.
eagleisland
"I was halfway to Old Kentucky when the drugs began to kick in." - Hunter S. Monroe
Edited by - eagleisland on 11/13/2009 16:38:37
Banjo John C - Posted - 11/13/2009: 18:33:57
So that "Just Ann" could take a trip around the world. She's such a cool donkey.
Old Tyme, all the time
fivestring2 - Posted - 11/13/2009: 19:21:07
One of my best friends on the internet made it for me. Very special gift from a very special person.
barbie
Check out www.banjoholler.com I double dare you!!!
pastyman - Posted - 11/13/2009: 23:24:12
a good friend made mine (cause its my two favourite things)
per mare per terram
dbaty - Posted - 11/14/2009: 01:31:56
I have alway's been interested in Negro Folk Lore, (I guess I can say that). Such an interesting time in history and I've alway's been interested in their culture. I imagine that during the time of slavery that music or Banjo pickin was their way to escape the hardship that some might be going through.
Like a Dog, a Banjo just wants to be played with and cared for.
JohnJ - Posted - 11/14/2009: 06:47:30
I was really happy that day....
JJ
edweber - Posted - 11/14/2009: 09:26:49
My dad was a fireman and head brakeman on the Illinois Central Railroad. He rode on the old steam locomotives and I have some pictures on my home page of a locomotive he worked on, the 2542, a 4-8-2 Mountain which, by the way, is still in existence living on display on a siding in McComb, MS. Although this avatar is not a picture of the 2542 it was simply a cool picture.
Speaking of cool pictures I'm thinking about switching to this one of yours truly next:
What do you think??
Ed
Regular Guy says, "Nuffs enuff"
www.customscrimshaw.com
Email: edweber@customscrimshaw.com
Nancy - Posted - 11/14/2009: 10:07:40
Well, that's Roger, the buffalo that sits above my desk. Why name him Roger? From Roger Miller's song "You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd"....
And....those words to the song. Anybody know them???
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
Ya can't take a shower in a parakeet cage
Ya can't take a shower in a parakeet cage
Ya can't take a shower in a parakeet cage
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
All ya gotta do is put your mind to it
Knuckle down, buckle down, do it, do it, do it
Well, ya can't go a-swimmin' in a baseball pool
Ya can't go swimmin' in a baseball pool
Ya can't go swimmin' in a baseball pool
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
Ya can't change film with a kid on your back
Ya can't change film with a kid on your back
Ya can't change film with a kid on your back
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
Ya can't drive around with a tiger in your car
Ya can't drive around with a tiger in your car
Ya can't drive around with a tiger in your car
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
All ya gotta do is put your mind to it
Knuckle down, buckle down do it, do it, do it
Well, ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
Ya can't go fishin' in a watermelon patch
Ya can't go fishin' in a watermelon patch
Ya can't go fishin' in a watermelon patch
But you can be happy if you've a mind to
Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
SPOKEN: "Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd"
Nancy
We Create Our Tomorrows by what we dream today.
Edited by - Nancy on 11/14/2009 10:12:19
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