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Old 04-03-03 | 08:47 PM
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Explain your avatar/quote

Does your avatar say something about you? Is your quote refer to a personal experience? Let's hear it!

I picked the ghostbuster logo...well...because it was cool.
As for my quote, I'm sure many of you will recognize it from the best movie ever, Casablanca, a film that captured the irony of humanity and the sarcasm of our daily interactions in dramatic fashion.
Play it again Sam
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:00 PM
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:01 PM
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That's Casablanca? I sorta assumed it was from The Simpsons for some reason.

Not much to explain about my avatar....took it from my screen name.
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:02 PM
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My avatar (for those who don't yet know) was a CD cover used by an Australian rock band called The Screaming Jets back in the mid 90s. Yes, I still have and listen to that CD.
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:02 PM
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I ripped my avatar off from the "Cycle Instead" campaign run by the Western Australian government. It's a campaign designed to get more bums on saddles in WA.
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:08 PM
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Mine is inexplicable.
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:19 PM
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Originally posted by iamlucky13
I picked the ghostbuster logo...well...because it was cool.
I picked the Michelin man for the same reason. Coincidentally, he looks a little like your busted ghost!
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:37 PM
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Originally posted by Dirtgrinder
Mine is inexplicable.
It's actually pretty frightening! You ever read the Harlan Ellison short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream?"
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:40 PM
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Um, well gee... it's sorta, kinda self-explanatory: We Ride Together And We Love Tandems.

As for the quote, I chose it as a sarcastic commentary on forums and Internet discussions groups in general. There are players and there are spectators. Without players, there wouldn't be forums. Without spectators there would still be forums. Which are you**********

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Old 04-03-03 | 09:50 PM
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I have always been a Daffy Duck fan. Bugs was always too much in control of the situation whereas Daffy always seemed ready to go ballistic at any moment. I like the element of uncertainty in his psyche.

As for my quote, I figured that once I passed 50 it was pretty much downhill despite whatever I might do to hold back the ravages of time. So what the heck --- Carpe Diem!

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P.S. I used the old Buckaroo Banzai quote for a while but noticed Raiyn or someone else using it, so I decided to find me a new one.
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Old 04-03-03 | 09:59 PM
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Old 04-03-03 | 10:42 PM
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I'm a hockey nut and The Tampa Bay Lightning is my favorite team.
edit: I mean come on look at my profile for cryin out loud!
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Old 04-03-03 | 10:49 PM
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I haven't found a pic that suits me yet.

Still lookin' though.

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Old 04-03-03 | 11:06 PM
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Originally posted by SteveE
It's actually pretty frightening! You ever read the Harlan Ellison short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream?"
Is that better Steve?
Didn't mean to frighten anyone.
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Old 04-03-03 | 11:38 PM
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I am like a cop around here.
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Old 04-03-03 | 11:42 PM
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Well I'm a goofy noob here so I put up, gosh, I know.. a pic of my bike! I'll think of something more crafty as time goes on. Maybe a close up of the crank?

Quote is from Pretty and Twisted. Johnette Napolitano's band after Concrete Blonde.

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Old 04-04-03 | 01:06 AM
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You ever read the Harlan Ellison short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream?"

Great story, SteveE. Ellison is one of the greatest sci-fi writers ever. Try his book "Edgeworks" if you haven't read it yet. Two good novellas in it.

My avatar? I've liked the Cat in the Hat since I was little. He was cool, always in control, and could fix any situation just in the nick of time. Just like me.....;-).

My quote? As you can see, it's from a song by Stephen Stills. Crosby, Stills, and Nash have always been favorites of mine. The song "Throughfare Gap" is about a train struggling to get over a pass, but I thought the quote also worked well for a bike nut.
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Old 04-04-03 | 01:11 AM
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Originally posted by WorldIRC
I am like a cop around here.
What you hang out eating donuts while being mocked by kids?

The two Buckaroo Banzai quotes are from the movie "Buckaroo Banzai - Across the Eighth Dimension" one of my all time faves. (I pulled 'em from the script so don't tell me they're wrong) "Never In the Gutter" is the most intelligent thing I've read Zapata Espinoza write in the entire time I've subscribed to Mountain Bike. Truer words were never spoken to this bike commuter.
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Old 04-04-03 | 01:20 AM
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Originally posted by iamlucky13
Casablanca, a film that captured the irony of humanity and the sarcasm of our daily interactions in dramatic fashion.
Play it again Sam
The best-known quotation from the world's greatest film is "Play it again, Sam". Ironically, this quotation never appears in the story - it's one of the silver screen's most misquoted lines. Ilsa says something similar, and so does Rick, but it never appears exactly in this form.

Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old time's sake.
Sam: I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.
Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.

Rick: You know what I want to hear.
Sam: No, I don't.
Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me.
Sam: Well, I don't think I can remember -
Rick: If she can stand it, I can. Play it.

The movie, however, rocks
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Old 04-04-03 | 01:54 AM
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The avatar is one of my dogs, Bosley as a 6 month old (Now no longer with us), and the quote is by a French noble woman (I believe)

"The more I see of man(kind), the more I like dogs"

particularly apt in these troubled times.
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Old 04-04-03 | 02:07 AM
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My avtar is just one I liked the look of.

The quote I ripped off a running shoes advert, but I felt it summed up why we do a lot of things - Not for any reward but for the challenge.
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Old 04-04-03 | 03:52 AM
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Oh yeah, my sig. It's a quote in the liner notes of "Forever Delayed", more commonly known as Manic Street Preachers Greatest Hits. I've become a devoted Manics fan since discovering them late last year, and the line best sums up my attitude to conventions, fads, popular culture and life generally.
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Old 04-04-03 | 06:32 AM
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My avatar is something I was playing with when I was trying to come up with a logo for an MS150 team. I thought it looked different.

My Sig, it's something I say to myself on rides when some folks go of the front for a sprint. Depending on how I'm feeling and how far to the end it's either...
"Alright boy, let em go, you don't need to run em down, let the rabbits run"
or
"Alright boy, get them rabbits, go boy..."
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Old 04-04-03 | 06:54 AM
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Got mine from my son. He was 7 months at the time of that picture, now he is 9 months.
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Old 04-04-03 | 07:04 AM
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My avatar is just me... this winter... goofing around out front of my house... looking like an idiot on parade.

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