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[brewing]

My avatar is my profession.

My user name is a combination of the 1st 3 letters of my first name, middle initial, and 1st 3 letters of my last name. Been using it periodically since I was 14.

[JLange]

My first prewar card

[Texxxx]

I guess I will have to claim the green light like Barry for my avatar.
My username has been with me since the first day I walked into the dorm of collage. I wasn't really a cowboy but I looked like one that first day. Someone called me "Tex" and it stuck. At least 90% of my friends in school never even knew my real name. As the years went by I keep adding X's for each decade that I lived but had to stop since it was getting to long.

[kkkkandp]

Similar to other people who have already responded, I didn't put a lot of creative energy into my Net 54 name. It is my AOL email name. When I first signed up with AOL everyone in my family had their own email address and mine was simply the first letters of each of the given names:

Kevin
Kara
Kyle
Kelly
and
Paula

My avatar is the mascot (purple cow) for my college (Williams). As weird as a purple cow might seem, it never makes the lists of the weirdest college mascots.

http://www.campusexplorer.com/Top-10...llege-Mascots/

[ethicsprof]

You go ahead and take the green one and i'll take the blue one.
all the best,
barry

[edjs]

Originally Posted by wolf441

Thanks for posting Ed. I could never figure out what your avatar was, other than it looked creepy, like something from Terminator!!

When you think about how he kept playing after that injury, you gotta think he WAS a terminator!

[Tim Kindler]

Interesting to read about everyone's avatar choices and how they have come to display them. Mine just comes from one of my E98s, Frank Chance.
It is one of my favorites from my E98 Master Set and the reds are my favorite background color.

[Mdmtx]

My avatar is from a particularly bad tax day a few years ago. I stopped working on the taxes, ruffled my hair and glasses for a quick picture and a few minutes of comic relief. My username is my initials and state abbreviation.

Mark

[EvilKing00]

User name is my email address that i picked when i was a kid, oddly i still use it sometimes and easy to remember. Avatar is a castle image i used in the past for fantasy teams of course named evilkings. Easy to remember i guess.

[Jobu]

It is very bad to steal my rum.....it is very bad.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

I am having a hard time saying that without doing so in Yoda voice!

Good point Rhett...you are wise in the way of user names. Perhaps I should add a "mmmmm" to the beginning of it.

Brian

[toppcat]

Mine came about due to my interests in Topps, animation and the ABA. When I coined the Toppcat member name I wanted an avatar that made some sense. As a kid (and now even) I always thought the Carolina Cougars logo was the coolest thing ever so it being a cat really tied it in with the rest of my interests and made it a perfect fit. I scanned it from an old Topps Basketball insert sticker. I've thought about trying to fit the old curved Topps logo on the ball but haven't mucked around with it lately.

[bn2cardz]

When I started on ebay I was a minor and my dad set it up under his name for me when we decided on the name n2cardz since the only reason I had it was so I could buy and sell my cards (cardz) Then as my dad got more into selling he took over the id stating it was in his name anyways and that I should come up with my own. He suggested I just add the b to stand for "boy" and if people questioned my low feedback I could point them to the n2cardz id. So I did.

The avatar is just the back of a m116 type 1 that I edited to have my username. Because I thought it would be fun to have it say "When you think of baseball, think of bn2cardz".

[AJR]

I know it's an old thread but I just changed my avatar so I thought I would share.

My avatar is now a photo of me and Doc Gooden (I'm obviously wearing the tigers gear and he is in his uniform) talking during BP on the diamond at Citifield from earlier this year.

It is interesting because as this photo was taken both Doc and I had just agreed that the Tigers would win the World Series due to their strong starting rotation... Looks like we got that wrong!

Oh yeah, and probably of more interest to everyone on this board, Doc is big Walter Johnson fan!