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November 27th, 2006, 11:24 PM
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On page 1 of this reincarnated thread I answered to the name CaptainTux. For those who have seen the threads of old on the CA and skiffy boards, you will remember I used to end my posts with cheers. I still end my emails and phone calls with it. I have many friends in Australia and the UK and I picked up Cheers from them. My avatars change often and are usually reflective of my moods. Currently, it is an avatar of me. I've been working hard to shed some depression pounds and I no longer wish to hide behind a pic of others. I like me alot these days. I had a bad run of luck with the marriage gone south. It broke me that things did not work out and my self esteem was shattered. It is over and my daughter still lives with me. She is happy and I am happy and I am discovering sides of myself I did not know I had. The current avatar is reflective of that. The romantic and the dreamer. The man who lives by a different standard and is...not fearless...but adventurous. Kinda having fun these days.
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 Excellent words Tux! And many congratulations on discovering the real you, physically, emotionally and mentally. 
Your latest real-life avatar is splendid, and nice strong chin, BTW 
You're not having Pisces influence in your horoscope by any chance??  the "romantic dreamer" traits ,just scream" the 12th sign"!!!  Take it from me...it's a sign that can be hard to fully understand, even to ourselves...but we are nevertheless gentle, sensitive and inspirational people...somewhat chameleons of the zodiac! 
P.S. I just discovered you're a Cancerian! Hey..no wonder I recognise your water element... 
I think you deserve some victuals...  on me..well not on me...but my shout! Actually I don't shout...I'm very quietly spoken in fact... good breeding... okay..except for my last post in "The Last Person" thread, a senton ago...one of those fish traits...we somtimes drink like one 
Actually I don't really drink...I'm a water child..love my HO2...
I have no idea why I just told you all that... 
Think I need a lie down...Jeeves..fetch me my cool head cloth....
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November 28th, 2006, 12:45 AM
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Hi Taranis...
As for the " surviving Piscon Princess" thing well, I am a Piscean and ....just sounded good!  |
I am a Sagittarius's  that means I am half donkey and half mad!!.. as I once read a dreamer star sign constantly shooting arrows into the sky chasing dreams ..
(would make more logic if we shot lower) then tripping over to many legs running after it.... stories of my life ..
the only upside is, "I have a good healthy garden" .. do you like rhubarb???
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November 28th, 2006, 11:05 PM
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I am a Sagittarius's that means I am half donkey and half mad!!.. as I once read a dreamer star sign constantly shooting arrows into the sky chasing dreams ..
(would make more logic if we shot lower) then tripping over to many legs running after it.... stories of my life ..
the only upside is, "I have a good healthy garden" .. do you like rhubarb???
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Hi, "Oh great Thunder God....hmmm a Sagittaran....nice colony...I have a best friend from there.....and I was convinced she too was mostly mad the donkey part well...that was a given
Hmmm Rhubarb...  ... My mother has made a delicious Rhubarb cake, pie, and like a dessert topping on ice-cream on occassions...delish!...and they say there's much rhubarb to be found on Mars...that's why they call it the red planet ...okay that was rather a geeky thing to say....
However, traditionally, Astrology says a Sagittarians are represented by the mythical Centaur. Half man and half horse. Often associated with symbolism of man torn between good and evil.
Sagittarius is also a protector, with a great desire for freedom.
I think I've just promoted myself as the fleets' Astrologer....and your forcast for today is.......
Get to know the centuar in YOU!
You'll be delightfully surprised
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November 29th, 2006, 12:25 AM
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Hi, "Oh great Thunder God....hmmm a Sagittaran....nice colony...I have a best friend from there.....and I was convinced she too was mostly mad the donkey part well...that was a given
Hmmm Rhubarb... ... My mother has made a delicious Rhubarb cake, pie, and like a dessert topping on ice-cream on occassions...delish!...and they say there's much rhubarb to be found on Mars...that's why they call it the red planet ...okay that was rather a geeky thing to say....
However, traditionally, Astrology says a Sagittarians are represented by the mythical Centaur. Half man and half horse. Often associated with symbolism of man torn between good and evil.
Sagittarius is also a protector, with a great desire for freedom.
I think I've just promoted myself as the fleets' Astrologer....and your forcast for today is.......
Get to know the centuar in YOU!
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I always enjoyed reading books about Astrology .. never the daily news papers .
which part is good and with is evil .. do i follow my head or my Donkey ..
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November 29th, 2006, 03:46 AM
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aH .
Seen this is also about Avatars ....
My new Avatar is a comic book Character seen in 2000ad Judge Dredd ... bit this is not Dredd himself but a Irish Judge
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Love 2000AD..although I got into it becasue it merged with Starlord (is my age showing??) Fave artistis is Carlos Esquerra.. so Dredd is up there, as well as the Stainless Steel Rat, but my heart belongs to the (top) Strontium Dog, Johnny Alpha!.. as the gronk would say, "oh my heartses.."
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November 29th, 2006, 04:17 AM
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I use to use Johnny Alpha as my avatar on a few forums .... Sci-fi meshes is one .. Johnny is also one of my favs I remember starlord too snap
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November 29th, 2006, 11:55 PM
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I always enjoyed reading books about Astrology .. never the daily news papers .
which part is good and with is evil .. do i follow my head or my Donkey ..
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I'd highly recommend you don't follow the part that's "ass"
The head...well, that can fail us somtimes...especially my own sometimes...
But hey,WTF do I know?...aim for the Heavens Taranis! Philosophy is definatley one of a Sagittarian's favourite pastimes...oh great centaur!
Just be carefull where you're firing those arrows of yours...don't spear any fish nearby....
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November 30th, 2006, 12:16 AM
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I'd highly recommend you don't follow the part that's "ass"
The head...well, that can fail us somtimes...especially my own sometimes...
But hey,WTF do I know?...aim for the Heavens Taranis! Philosophy is definatley one of a Sagittarian's favourite pastimes...oh great centaur!
Just be carefull where you're firing those arrows of yours...don't spear any fish nearby.... |
there was a time when I was able to chat to a friend about such things .. but he move away about 5 years ago ..married and has a new babe boy .. about 3 weeks
ago.
but we'd open a few bottles of wine and everything under and above the heavens was discussed into the wee hours of the morning there is no one that has come close to been able to have the same chats with .. and its not the same on the net...
anyway I hate drinking alone ..(bad for you too) .
My fav book is by Linda Goodman ..
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November 30th, 2006, 01:07 PM
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I use to use Johnny Alpha as my avatar on a few forums .... Sci-fi meshes is one .. Johnny is also one of my favs I remember starlord too snap |
Now I wish I was technically clever enough to get me one of those Avatar thingos 
Johnny, or maybe Durham Red...altho the Gronk really is closer to my 'hero' style
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November 30th, 2006, 01:36 PM
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I have a few .. I can give you if you want .. you can then upload it in to your avatar control
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December 1st, 2006, 09:02 PM
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I've been here a while and I haven't done this. Well by my name I'm AJ Marks, and my avatar is, for the moment, about something I was doing during the month of November. Its where you start November 1 and try and write 50,000 words of a new story in 30 days. I managed to complete the story, Called "Retrun of the Cimalians" which I am now in the process of editing and hoping to one day publish.
My sigs usually represent either a quote from a movie or what's going on at my website.
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December 2nd, 2006, 02:59 AM
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I have a few .. I can give you if you want .. you can then upload it in to your avatar control
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Yes please!
One of the things that has confounded me about avatars is resizing pics properly (I freely admit I'm a technotard..) so ready mades are cool.
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December 2nd, 2006, 04:00 AM
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no problem
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December 2nd, 2006, 05:31 AM
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I have a few .. I can give you if you want .. you can then upload it in to your avatar control
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Yes please!
One of the things that has confounded me about avatars is resizing pics properly (I freely admit I'm a technotard..) so ready mades are cool.
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Lara,
One easy way, albeit a bit 'crude', is by using MS Photo Editor. It will allow you to resize pictures in a variety of measurements -- inches, centimeters, or pixels. The Avatar size, at this point is 120x120 pixels and 20K. Make sure, though, that when saving the picture, you save it as a JPG or GIF file. Don't save as a bitmap file .. that seems to chew up an incredible amount of storage space by comparison.
Hope that helps.
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The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore .
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December 2nd, 2006, 06:03 AM
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here's Johnny ..
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Aha! Success!!
Thanks heaps to the both of you... after a couple of goes and then a convert to jpeg its stuck and I'm the proud owner of my first avatar!!
BTW, what's a GIMP image??
Cheers,
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December 3rd, 2006, 04:19 AM
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GIMP is a free program that works like photoshop .. I downloaded it. but it does not work for me for some reason ??
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December 4th, 2006, 03:12 AM
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GIMP is a free program that works like photoshop .. I downloaded it. but it does not work for me for some reason ??
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Johnny was in GIMP, so it must have done something for you
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