Avatar Meanings

[aura of foreboding]

Mine is what it is

And it's a very lovely portrait of James Monroe. 

[Howler]

I love wolves and werewolves. Plus I thought the background had a nice and gloomy Universal Monsters type of look to it. 

[Zackuth]

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. 

[The Batman]

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.

[Paladin]

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...

[charp13]

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. 

[Flower]

Charp .. this is the nicest forum anywhere ...   

[Scatter]

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.

[charp13]

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!

[Bonomo]

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.

[charp13]

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.

[Sly Wolf]

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.

[marsattacks666]

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  .  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.

[Wicked Lester]

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.

[Zackuth]

Nice.
Here is a promo card I have had for about 40 years.

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.