Explain your Avatar and Username.

[Owens187]

This may have been done here before, but there are alot of new people around here, some with quite interesting avatars, and some even more interesting Usernames. Let us know what it is, what it stands for, where you found it, how long youve been using it, etc etc...

My Avatar is Zakk Wylde from Black Label Society . Greatest band on the fu**ing planet, IMHO of course. My username is, well, my name. Been using the same combination of username and avatar on the net for well over 10 years now.

Whats yours? :P

[Monkey]

Monkey was my high school nick name and I've been using it on the internet since then. My avatar is a monkey.

[Christi]

Both are just me, once I get my avatar up.

[Veganpunk]

Nice new avatar Christi! My name has been my internet name forever. Avatar is The Alkaline Trio logo - heart and skull.

[Christi]

Thanks!

[MCWP]

im using a cool little black mage sprite from Final Fantasy. ALways loved that job.

[chadizzy1]

We had a what does your avatar mean thread a while back, but it's lost in the interwebs with Al Gore. haha.

My image is of course, the most annoying image possible, designed to piss off everyone here. No, just kidding. It's the logo guy for my website. But still equally annoying.

My username has been my online screen name since I was like 13, so I've just stuck with it.

[RedMacGregor]

Red MacGregor - popular theory has my family descending from the MacGregors, but we settled in North America in the late 1500's.

[tom502]

My avatar is one of the Vril saucer craft designed in the hollow Earth at the secret south pole base, that took certain members of the 3rd Reich to the Aldebaran star system, from the moon base on the dark side, to return to the Earth on 2012.

[Paul]

plain me
no hidden secret...or there is?
Muahahahahahahaha :twisted:

[Premium Parrots]

you don't want to know

[RobsanX]

My screen name is from an old nickname, and my avatar and sig are from a great Swedish film, Det sjunde inseglet.

[Paul]

you don't want to know

Old McParrots had a farm.... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[cyrax777]

i used to play a ungodly amount of mortal kombat 3 and ultimate mortal kombat 3. cyrax was my favorite character. when i created my first email account cyrax was taken so i added 777 like a slot machine jackpot. been using it ever since. avitar is windows 2k tan my favorite os girl.

[nathancipher]

Well, it's my real first name and Cipher which can mean a code, a number, or zero depending on context.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher

Etymology of “Cipher”

“Cipher” is alternatively spelled “cypher”; similarly “ciphertext” and “cyphertext”, and so forth.

The word “cipher” in former times meant “zero” and had the same origin: Middle French as cifre and Medieval Latin as cifra, from the Arabic صفر ṣifr = zero (see Zero — Etymology). “Cipher” was later used for any decimal digit, even any number. There are these theories about how the word “cipher” may have come to mean “encoding”:

* Encoding often involved numbers.
* The Roman number system was very cumbersome because there was no concept of zero (or empty space). The concept of zero (which was also called “cipher”), which we all now think of as natural, was very alien in medieval Europe, so confusing and ambiguous to common Europeans that in arguments people would say “talk clearly and not so far fetched as a cipher”. Cipher came to mean concealment of clear messages or encryption.
o The French formed the word “chiffre” and adopted the Italian word “zero”.
o The English used “zero” for “0”, and “cipher” from the word “ciphering” as a means of computing.
o The Germans used the words “Ziffer” (digit, “Zahl”) and “Chiffre”.
o The Dutch still use the word "cijfer" to refer to a number.

Dr. Al-Kadi (ref-3) concluded that the Arabic word sifr, for the digit zero, developed into the European technical term for encryption.

and my avatar is from shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com