My avatar is Napoleon from N.D. Prior to that, my avatar was Hank Hill. They both serve(d) two purposes:
People will make judgements based on your appearance, usually to their detriment. I like that about the human condition: the inability to open your mind and reserve judgement until you know a person. We go off first appearances. I thank my dad for teaching me that playing into that is truly funny.
They are both funny yet slightly disturbing visual images. Folks will remember Napoleon and Hank.
My desktop is the metalic T-Nation tribal design on a bright red backgrround.
My two avatars have both been different characters of Clint Eastwood’s. Ever since I was about nine or ten and I saw my first spaghetti western and then Dirty Harry I have been a huge Clint fan.
At that age those characters embodied what I thought a man, or T-Man if you will, was. I know it’s a movie character but he represented to me the ultimate in cool! He was fearless always in control and took care of business with authority!
Now years later I still admire Clint as an accomplished director, connoisseur of jazz, a politican albeit republican (hey no ones perfect) (JK),and continuing to be a great actor.
Yep, Clint was it for me. There aren’t many famous people I would really care to meet, but Clint would be an exception to the rule.
Eastwood as William “Bill” Munny in “Unforgiven”…probably Eastwood at his best…
But as a pure “Badass”?
The Outlaw Jose Wales…
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Mufasa, true dat! Josey is bad, but who can forget “Now did I fire five bullets or six… in all this confusion I kinda lost track myself but being this is a forty four magnum” that was Dirty Harry coolness at it’s peak.
Elk
Also, I really dig the planet scape and starburst that is badass!
[quote]rainjack wrote:
My avatar is Napoleon from N.D. Prior to that, my avatar was Hank Hill. They both serve(d) two purposes:
People will make judgements based on your appearance, usually to their detriment. I like that about the human condition: the inability to open your mind and reserve judgement until you know a person. We go off first appearances. I thank my dad for teaching me that playing into that is truly funny.
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i work with a guy who when i first met him i had him labeled because of how he looked. gradually, i got to know him and he’s one of the coolest people ive met.
[quote]Elkhntr1 wrote:
My two avatars have both been different characters of Clint Eastwood’s. Ever since I was about nine or ten and I saw my first spaghetti western and then Dirty Harry I have been a huge Clint fan.
At that age those characters embodied what I thought a man, or T-Man if you will, was. I know it’s a movie character but he represented to me the ultimate in cool! He was fearless always in control and took care of business with authority!
Now years later I still admire Clint as an accomplished director, connoisseur of jazz, a politican albeit republican (hey no ones perfect) (JK),and continuing to be a great actor.
Yep, Clint was it for me. There aren’t many famous people I would really care to meet, but Clint would be an exception to the rule.[/quote]
Hey Elk, shouldn’t you give the R’s a try, since Clint likes them so much?
Come on buddy, you know you wanna…!
It’s a big tent!
