First, I apologize if this has been covered before...
An open question:
What do you think that the avatars we choose to use here at UMA mean to us or someone else? How do you interpret the avatar of someone else (in a friendly way) ?
Along the same lines, I guess.
http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=11797.msg339040#msg339040 (http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=11797.msg339040#msg339040)
I just thought mine (which includes the quote, both from a movie poster) would be funny. ;D
Mine means I like the black Licorice!
If I told you, I'd have to kill you and I'm out of silver bullets right now.
Pretty simple for me, when I found this website it made me feel like a kid again so I use photos of me from waaaaaaay back in the days of buying FMOF and my love for monster masks and movies.
I picked FM #1 because my monster mag collection is my best collection within my monster collection in general. And, it's an iconic image of the mag that started monster kiddom as we know it today.
I've had mine since Dick Von Hoene the Cool Ghoul from Cincinnati passed away as a tribute to him.
CREEPY magazine started my obsession with all things monster, so UNCLE CREEPY has a special place to me.
My avatar reflects my inner Serial Killer. Or.....is it......my love for........beings with large brains?
I didn't really want to post a pic of my military years so I chose Azrael, who represents (essentially) protection for those who cannot protect themselves. He is a character from the DC Universe. He wears the Suit of Sorrows and carries The Sword of Sin.
Funny when I see or hear the word 'Azrael' .. I associate it with this guy and not an Angel of Death ..
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110911220910/smurfs/images/a/a2/Azreal.jpg)
Quote from: Flower on February 09, 2013, 08:59:19 AM
Funny when I see or hear the word 'Azrael' .. I associate it with this guy and not an Angel of Death ..
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110911220910/smurfs/images/a/a2/Azreal.jpg)
LOL I never thought of this :D
Mine is is the guy who feeds me crackers!
I change my Avatar a lot, but most the time it reflects my devilish nature >:D
I'm not sure what mine means?lol!
Quote from: horror1o1 on February 14, 2013, 06:39:42 AM
I'm not sure what mine means?lol!
Home Alone 13: The Kevin McCallister haunted years.
Quote from: marsattacks666 on February 14, 2013, 11:28:18 AM
Home Alone 13: The Kevin McCallister haunted years.
LOL! Good one Mars. I can see the tag line now. "They wouldn't leave so he made them!" ;D
Mine shows the sign at the back of my House of Horrors (which would be doing much more business if I could find my exhibits that escaped from those two imbeciles!). Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
Mr. McDougal
After months of darkness, the foreboding aura that is my avatar has returned. This ghost is one of my favorite Halloween icons of all time. I love putting him up every year. For me, he really embodies the spirit of Halloween... Zombie Razz Zombie Razz
Quote from: Flower on February 08, 2013, 03:30:03 PM
If I told you, I'd have to kill you and I'm out of silver bullets right now.
Okay .. have lots of bullets .. :D
I wanted a new handle as I was using Hazeleyes with an avatar of a black cat, black background and hazeleyes .. It was something that I came up with quickly as I wanted to join a forum to ask a question. I didn't like the handle and decided when joining a different forum to change to Daisy (to honor my beloved deceased cat) but it was taken and since a daisy is a 'flower' .. I went with Flower.
Looking for avatars ... 'Flower' keep bringing up pet skunks and I went with a Disney avatar at first until I found my current avatar which I've been using for eight years .. I love Bambi & Thumper but my avatar has nothing to do with Disney and it's been explained many times over on other forums.
I love Disney's 'Flower' but HE has nothing to do with my avatar. I do have him in crystal and other things but my avatar is from a florist ad.
It is unfortunate that today, I went into a forum where I was banned (long story) and found this ... http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f14/whos-got-cool-username-you-wish-you-thought-17579/index3.html (http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f14/whos-got-cool-username-you-wish-you-thought-17579/index3.html) .. I don't know what 'chit' is or why I'm being called one or why bring up someone who is banned .. What hurts is the person who called me 'chit' was a friend.
I also found threads where people that I don't even know brought me up and the forum Admin posted a sick picture of a skunks rear end in reference to me. She knows that I can't protest and talk about drama queens, she kept 'leaving the forum in tears' because other posters didn't agree with her but she never leaves, just bans people and eats up the drama of people begging her not to leave.
I had begged the admins there to please delete my account when problems came up but the SOBs refused .. that's all that I asked. It's not like I came to the forum for one day and started problems as I worked hard building the forum .. my posts and account should've been deleted as requested.
Sorry I just need to vent. >:(
Quote from: Flower on March 01, 2013, 04:54:39 PM
Okay .. have lots of bullets .. :D
I wanted a new handle as I was using Hazeleyes with an avatar of a black cat, black background and hazeleyes .. It was something that I came up with quickly as I wanted to join a forum to ask a question. I didn't like the handle and decided when joining a different forum to change to Daisy (to honor my beloved deceased cat) but it was taken and since a daisy is a 'flower' .. I went with Flower.
Looking for avatars ... 'Flower' keep bringing up pet skunks and I went with a Disney avatar at first until I found my current avatar which I've been using for eight years .. I love Bambi & Thumper but my avatar has nothing to do with Disney and it's been explained many times over on other forums.
I love Disney's 'Flower' but HE has nothing to do with my avatar. I do have him in crystal and other things but my avatar is from a florist ad.
It is unfortunate that today, I went into a forum where I was banned (long story) and found this ... http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f14/whos-got-cool-username-you-wish-you-thought-17579/index3.html (http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f14/whos-got-cool-username-you-wish-you-thought-17579/index3.html) .. I don't know what 'chit' is or why I'm being called one or why bring up someone who is banned .. What hurts is the person who called me 'chit' was a friend.
I also found threads where people that I don't even know brought me up and the forum Admin posted a sick picture of a skunks rear end in reference to me. She knows that I can't protest and talk about drama queens, she kept 'leaving the forum in tears' because other posters didn't agree with her but she never leaves, just bans people and eats up the drama of people begging her not to leave.
I had begged the admins there to please delete my account when problems came up but the SOBs refused .. that's all that I asked. It's not like I came to the forum for one day and started problems as I worked hard building the forum .. my posts and account should've been deleted as requested.
Sorry I just need to vent. >:(
The forum Admin that posted the picture should have been booted, or at the very least given some kind of a warning. Just my opinion.
It is
very unfortunate that these few imbiciles on some of the forums (especially the topic- specific ones) can really, really mess things up for the people who behave and act in a civil manner. I think that what happens is that over time people get bored and start grasping for straws looking for something just to stick their toe into the conversation so others think that they are big and bad for whatever reason.
The forum Admin at the music place where you were sounds a bit like a prima- donna. I shouldn't say (type) this because I really don't know but from what your saying she sounds very superficial and immature.
I was on a sports forum a few years ago and the events were similar, Flower, and this forum was run by a
Major national broadcasting agency.
I cannot for the life of me understand why an account is not deleted but only deactivated (Facebook, for example). This even makes me wonder a little bit.
Thanks .. it's upsetting but I'm so glad that I'm out of there .. I tend to ignore *ssholes online and in real life. I'm a firm believer in karma and it will kick in. The Admin who posted the picture and harassed me had been banned on at least one forum were she was an admin .. This is the longest that she and her side kick have been on any forum.
Sorry to hear about that, Flower.
Hey, marsattacks666 - I just noticed the Linnea Quigley quote under your avatar - where is your avatar pic, anyway?
My avatar meaning is probably obvious ;D. It stems from my interest in Bigfoot, Yeti, Fouke Monster and other Hairy Hominids. Influenced by King Kong, Mighty Joe Young & The Abominable Snowman of The Himalayas.
Oh - and my pic is of a Bigfoot sculpture I made.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQW2fdzZnHnmOfiBRQPb-ykrwotW5rKnmHcl3fTyHtzKgXnLB5L)
(http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p173/fear-the-reaper/avatarmask2.jpg)
I had to laugh . .when I see Horror's avatar .. I always think of someone's grandma going .. 'Oy Vey!' .. never thought about Edvard Munch .. good call! ;D
mine's a little monstery, a little finky, a little low brow arty, a little '50s sci fi flicky & a little circusy...
these are a few of my favorite things~ ;)
I change my avatar often. Right now its my love of cooking.
I have an avatar? Seriously mine sum's up my attitude to life there are always two road's. The unfortunate thing is my Hyde side usually wins which means more lousy puns and even more lousy limericks.
P.S
Don't listen to him HE lies...On the other hand I do my practice every day and I'm still not perfect, groan.
Yours Truly
Dr H.Jekyll
Mine was a gentle nudge to my buddy Ray, whose Coffin Joe avatar says "I Don't Like Dramas", a quote from "At Midnight, I'll Take Your Soul". By Ray's admission, he doesn't like dramas.
I chose mine because "Hamlet" is my favorite story of all time. Kenneth Branagh's film version is my favorite version of it. And, well, because I *DO* like dramas.
Matt
Mine is what it is :)
Quote from: Opera Ghost on March 05, 2013, 07:40:07 PM
Mine is what it is :)
And it's a very lovely portrait of James Monroe.
I love wolves and werewolves. Plus I thought the background had a nice and gloomy Universal Monsters type of look to it. 8)
Since I've changed mine, I'll talk about my new one. This was the station shot for Creature Features on WGN channel 9 in Chicago in the early 70's, but the blue was white.
It's a photo my wife took of me wearing my favorite urethane, screen accurate '89 Batman cowl. I love costumes of all kinds and love Halloween. But Batman always gets the most comments, the most smiles and the most photos. 'Too fun.
My new one is that of Ygor with the Frankenstein monster and it's more definative to the Universal board itself. Bela Lugosi's flute playing Ygor is one of my favorite Universal characters ever. I don't think that Bela ever got the credit he deserved for playing this role.
"cough cough... oh, sorry! Ygor cough- have bone stuck in throat ha ha ha!" LOL
I'll change photos every month or so...
This has been a fun topic to read, guys! Flower, you are as sweet as any flower (and my UMA BFF), so it's hard for me to imagine anyone being so ugly to you! That other "forum" must have been a real stink hole! (when I first read your post, I thought you were on a crock pot site- it looked like classic crock when I read it)! I'm a noob at most things on the computer, so I haven't experienced the seedier side of online forums :)
My avatar is a picture of the mask I got on ebay for $10 (which is apparently the amount of money needed to buy my happiest memory), and when I found it.....I was overjoyed because it's the same mask I had as a child in the Halloween pic. I posted of young Charp.
Charp .. this is the nicest forum anywhere ... 8)
Quote from: Flower on March 01, 2013, 10:10:40 PM
Thanks .. it's upsetting but I'm so glad that I'm out of there .. I tend to ignore *ssholes online and in real life. I'm a firm believer in karma and it will kick in. The Admin who posted the picture and harassed me had been banned on at least one forum were she was an admin .. This is the longest that she and her side kick have been on any forum.
Know what though?? You're LOVED here. Not tolerated, not just accepted. LOVED. Now THAT'S karma.
As for my avatar, Scatter was Elvis' monkey in the mid 60s. I first began using it on an Elvis forum years ago, and it just stuck.
Scatter!!! I did NOT know that about your name! I just thought it was a cool name. I wracked my brain wondering if it was from a horror movie- and then I figured you just came up with it because it's fun! Yay! Elvis had his own monkey??? Why do rich people always want monkeys? hahahaha!!
And you always have such a splendid command of words.....yes it's true- I feel the same way about our Flower, too :)
And if I was a hugger....I'd give everyone around here a bear hug!
Mine is Joe Bonomo (the picture I have up now is Bonomo with his friend and contemporary Charles Atlas). He was a stuntman and serial star in the very early Universal days. First heard about him in FMOF when I was a kid, they did an article about him the year he died since he was involved with a good number of classic horrors as a stuntman-Island Of Lost Souls, Chaney's Phantom Of The Opera, Murders In The Rue Morgue, just to name a few. The place I got the magazine from was actually an antique shop, one of the owners/ladies who worked there had a son who had owned a comic shop and they sold a lot of his old back issues there, sometimes various things would pop up like FMOF and The Monster Times. Fast forward to my 20's, I got seriously into strength training, with a particular interest in the methods of the old time strongmen of the 19th century and early 20th century. As it turns out Bonomo was a very prominent strongman as well, published quite a few training manuals, and I eventually got a copy of his autobiography The Strongman which is my absolute favorite book to this day. In the book Bonomo states that his family are Turkish Jews, and claims that his father was the man who introduced the ice cream cone to America. Well, it just so happens that my father in law's grandfather, David Avayou, who was also a Turkish Jew, is largely credited with that honor. I put 2 and 2 together and figured the Avayou's (my wife's family) and the Bonomo's must have known each other. For years I hounded the elders of my wife's family for any info about the Bonomo's but the best I got was that yes the name sounded familiar. Within this past year, however, I got to talk with one particular family member who finally confirmed my theory, and told me stories of when he was a kid, visiting with the Bonomo's and Joe Bonomo himself!!! I myself have gone on to be an actor/stuntman and budding strongman, so needless to say I feel a heavy connection to Bonomo. The fact that I developed a keen interest in a man the general public has all but forgotten because of a random magazine I found as a kid, then grew up to marry a woman whose family was very close with his, just blows my mind and is definitely one of the greatest mysteries of my personal life.
Bonomo- That's incredibly cool & interesting! I love those "what are the odds?" type moments in life! To think that you married someone who was connected to a personal hero of yours is so beautiful :) Charles Atlas was also a legend with girls as well. I remember reading his ads, and although I didn't think about strength training when I was a kid- I understand his message today! It's all about keeping your muscles & bones strong as you age! I'm almost 51 and I never want to be fragile or weak. I realize you can't help it sometimes (especially when something breaks & you have to have surgery-bleh) , but you do what you can.
My avatar deals with Werewolves, and Illustrations (such as comic books).
I first got into werewolves when I was in middle school years such as wearing werewolf mask for the halloween about two times (third time in college), being so obsessed with them but for some very strange reasons that I never watched the werewolf movies until I turned 17 years old. I just always love the idea that a human being like myself can turn into a half animal being and run wild. I have a box full of the werewolf films (watched almost all of them) and handful of the werewolf books (hadn't read them yet).
It also shows that I do enjoy illustrations and comics with werewolves in it such as found in Creepy magazines, Bernie Wrightson's work on the Cycle of werewolf, Frank frazetta's werewolf story founded in the Creepy 1#, Werewolf by Night comics from 70's Bronze age and many other werewolf stories found in many horror titles.
I do read comics without werewolves too, that would be long list to type here but rather not to.
Quote from: Unknown Primate on March 01, 2013, 10:47:38 PM
Sorry to hear about that, Flower.
Hey, marsattacks666 - I just noticed the Linnea Quigley quote under your avatar - where is your avatar pic, anyway?
My avatar meaning is probably obvious ;D. It stems from my interest in Bigfoot, Yeti, Fouke Monster and other Hairy Hominids. Influenced by King Kong, Mighty Joe Young & The Abominable Snowman of The Himalayas.
Oh - and my pic is of a Bigfoot sculpture I made.
Yes, definitely a quote from Linnea Q., and from the film Return of the Living Dead. Here's my Avatar.
Quote from: Zackuth on March 26, 2013, 07:42:33 PM
Since I've changed mine, I'll talk about my new one. This was the station shot for Creature Features on WGN channel 9 in Chicago in the early 70's, but the blue was white.
Nice.
Here is a promo card I have had for about 40 years.
(http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp47/WickedLester666/creatureredo.jpg)
Quote from: Wicked Lester on May 19, 2013, 08:57:06 AM
Nice.
Here is a promo card I have had for about 40 years.
(http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp47/WickedLester666/creatureredo.jpg)
I had that hanging up on my wall as a kid. One of the newspapers had that as a center insert. I don't know what happened to mine. I think I lost it when my family moved to California.
Quote from: Zackuth on May 19, 2013, 09:23:26 AM
I had that hanging up on my wall as a kid. One of the newspapers had that as a center insert. I don't know what happened to mine. I think I lost it when my family moved to California.
Not to side track the thread but in answer to your post. Mine is a about 5 x 8 post card given to my sister who had a summer intenrship with WGN back then. It was given to her by Marty McNeely who spoke those creepy intro words to the show. BTW he just passed away a couple mos ago at age 86. :-X
WOW!! How cool!!! I'm sorry to hear about Marty McNeely's passing.