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Thread started 06/04/20 6:23pm

Seahorsie

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Share your Avatar backstory? Here is mine...

Yeah, I know, you think my on-line name is a bit infantile, has not much to do with Prince, etc., etc. Well, here is a small story on it. As a biologist having worked in a lab & drawing blood on people with Hepatitis, I am probably not going to get a tat anytime soon. Besides, the tatting thing is your generation, not mine. (or P's either for that matter) Also, I will share something that sometimes I am proud of, and sometimes a little ashamed of at times- I am tight with $.

My dad has been deceased since 1989, and I was a daddy's girl. I thought that if I ever got a tat, it would say "Seahorsie". Why? Because when little, I was really crazy about horses, and according to my father, when we would pass one in the truck anywhere, I would snuggle up to him and say "see horsie"? I wanted one soooo bad. It later became a running joke between us, and yes Karen, he bought me the sweetest palamino mare once I got old enough to handle one.

So, that's my Avatar name. And the drawing? I stole the idea for the seahorse on-line, and redrew it to the paisley one you see here to honor Prince. A personal tribute to a couple of my lifetime favorites.. So, there it is.

Anyone want to share what yours means to you?

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Reply #1 posted 06/05/20 7:39pm

ColAngus

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Mine is infantile too !
Colonel Angus may be smelly. colonel angus may be a little rough . but deep down ... Colonel angus is very sweet.
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Reply #2 posted 06/10/20 9:37am

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Sweet story heart
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Reply #3 posted 06/10/20 7:26pm

Seahorsie

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wildgoldenhoney said:

Sweet story heart

Thanks WGH! campfire

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Reply #4 posted 06/11/20 7:46am

EmmaMcG

My Avatar name is a cross between my own name (Emma) and my mother's surname (McGrane). Hence, EmmaMcG.

The reason I chose my mother's surname and not my own is because before I was married, my surname was Cunningham. So it would have been EmmaCun which is just a "T" away from being a disaster 😂.

Since getting married, my surname is now Doyle so I suppose I could change my name to EmmaDoy but that sounds too much like "Emma Die". Which wouldn't be very good either.
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Reply #5 posted 06/11/20 9:34pm

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EmmaMcG said:

My Avatar name is a cross between my own name (Emma) and my mother's surname (McGrane). Hence, EmmaMcG. The reason I chose my mother's surname and not my own is because before I was married, my surname was Cunningham. So it would have been EmmaCun which is just a "T" away from being a disaster 😂. Since getting married, my surname is now Doyle so I suppose I could change my name to EmmaDoy but that sounds too much like "Emma Die". Which wouldn't be very good either.



I'm sorry but ............ falloff

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Reply #6 posted 06/12/20 11:16am

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I forget, but apparently it's still somewhat synonymous with me. shrug

MY COUSIN WORKS IN A PHARMACY AND SHE SAID THEY ENEMA'D PRANCE INTO OBLIVION WITH FENTONILS!!
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Reply #7 posted 06/12/20 12:46pm

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luv4u said:



EmmaMcG said:


My Avatar name is a cross between my own name (Emma) and my mother's surname (McGrane). Hence, EmmaMcG. The reason I chose my mother's surname and not my own is because before I was married, my surname was Cunningham. So it would have been EmmaCun which is just a "T" away from being a disaster 😂. Since getting married, my surname is now Doyle so I suppose I could change my name to EmmaDoy but that sounds too much like "Emma Die". Which wouldn't be very good either.



I'm sorry but ..... falloff



lol
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Reply #8 posted 06/12/20 12:58pm

EmmaMcG

My avatar picture doesn't really have an interesting story behind it. My daughter told me I remind her of Isabelle from Animal Crossing. It was a bit of a gut punch to my ego to be told I reminded her of a dog but nevertheless, I figured she wasn't far wrong. There are some similarities, I suppose.
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Reply #9 posted 06/12/20 4:07pm

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I wanted something not Prince related lol
So I went with an Alien. Kind of strange and mysterious? Ikd

I've been on the Org so long I've come to recognize users by their avatars.
I figured some would come to know my avatar, but then again I rarely post
Cant believe my purple psychedelic pimp slap pimp2

And I descend from grace, In arms of undertow
I will take my place, In the great below
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Reply #10 posted 06/12/20 9:38pm

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My avatar = Sasha Grey, ex pornstar = I'm a perv lol
For all time I am with you, you are with me.
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Reply #11 posted 06/13/20 8:56am

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Tried to upload a self made drawing, but it turned out that the file was too big(?), so I gave it up.
If you take any of this seriously, you're a bigger fool than I am.
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Reply #12 posted 06/13/20 7:51pm

alphastreet

Been posting for 13 years and never had an avatar

And nice stories!
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Reply #13 posted 06/13/20 9:30pm

benni

"benni" - My real name is Brenda, but when my younger sister (7 years younger than me) was little she couldn't say my name, so she always called me benni (still does). When I saw my first Prince concert in 1998 and decided I needed to find out more about him, an ex-boyfriend told me Prince was really into the internet. I found the org first and eventually found L4OA website and The Holy River chatroom. It kept telling me to enter a name, and I tried to think of something witty, something cute, something..I don't know Princely, but then I realized, I've always been just "benni". For awhile in The River, everyone would greet me with "b...b...b...benni and the jetts", but my name never had anything to do with that song.

The avatar, I was the last person Prince retweeted and someone online decided she wanted to do something for me, so she edited a picture of Prince and I together. She did two of them, one with a copy of the tweet at the bottom, and one without the tweet. I thought it was really sweet of her and decided to use it as my avatar here.

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Reply #14 posted 06/21/20 1:39am

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benni said:

"benni" - My real name is Brenda, but when my younger sister (7 years younger than me) was little she couldn't say my name, so she always called me benni (still does). When I saw my first Prince concert in 1998 and decided I needed to find out more about him, an ex-boyfriend told me Prince was really into the internet. I found the org first and eventually found L4OA website and The Holy River chatroom. It kept telling me to enter a name, and I tried to think of something witty, something cute, something..I don't know Princely, but then I realized, I've always been just "benni". For awhile in The River, everyone would greet me with "b...b...b...benni and the jetts", but my name never had anything to do with that song.

The avatar, I was the last person Prince retweeted and someone online decided she wanted to do something for me, so she edited a picture of Prince and I together. She did two of them, one with a copy of the tweet at the bottom, and one without the tweet. I thought it was really sweet of her and decided to use it as my avatar here.


thumbs up! Cool story all around.


My Avatar is some photo i took off of some pagan website(I'm not a pagan though). It looked cool, was of someone black, and i think it kind of looks like me, so i claimed it. I've been planning on changing it(i used to change them around every 6 months or so), but have been lazy about it. My next one will probably be of Ultraman. I love that character.


As far as my name, my real name is Joey. My last name is so damn common, that i decided to go with Joeyc. The c stands for a few things. Joeycool(because i pretty much got(get) along with everybody), Joeycrazy(i was somewhat wild in my youth-not a "thug" though... but maybe a little Gangster), because some of the fellas called me Crazy Joe. And lastly, C, as in coco...So, take your pick razz

Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon.
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Reply #15 posted 06/23/20 3:58am

DaveT

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My name is David ... my surname begins with a T ... my avatar is a picture of me.

The inspiration well was drier than a nun's crotch the day I signed up here ...

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Reply #16 posted 06/28/20 12:11am

ImperfectAngel

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I just thought it went well with my username shrug
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Reply #17 posted 07/01/20 11:59am

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When Prince annouced his Musicology Tour in 2004 nearly every article I read described him as "the diminutive rocker"


I am of Mexican descent so I found the most diminutive Mexican image I could and...


Voila!

VOTE....EARLY
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Reply #18 posted 07/05/20 8:01am

RJOrion

i was never able to make an avatar. for some reason it never works
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Reply #19 posted 07/05/20 11:16am

Seahorsie

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RJOrion said:

i was never able to make an avatar. for some reason it never works

Well, I had a ____ of a time getting mine to finally load up. I will never remove it, 'cause I am pretty sure it would never come back. If it makes you feel better, I only got to post a picture one time, after going through many gyrations. What would be wrong with enabling it to do a simple copy and paste??

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