The traditional folk-mythology figure of the "Green Man" has always really appealed to me, and it went with my username. Then I created a theme along that line, as well. (And now I've actually got three seasonal themes that I use during the appropriate times of the year.)
How did you choose your profile photo?
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victhestick wrote:
I always wanted to be king.
this is funny, many of us have changed avatars.
Dec 16, 2009
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#24
I wanted my icon to look good when viewed in the extremely small version beside my name in a list - so I made it look like chess squares.
My grandmother (NannyPrawn) took this photo of me when I was just a little Prawnlette. I'm happy that she captured my "good side".
I try to show people that i am not a beginner with my picture of the hardest mate possible in chess with a king, knight, and bishop. I have not perfected this mate yet. But i will.
Dec 16, 2009
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My photo is a picture of the black king of my set of chess pieces. It is a very detailed chess set. As you see the black king has a beard.
I was wondering who commented on my topic after months.Babs helped it come back to life!
Dec 16, 2009
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#29
Well here we go..
Ahhca - Its anagram "achha" means "good" in Hindi and it is also the nickname of my best friend here
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As for the profile pic (a pose from the movie "Shawshank Redemption"), the tagline of this movie runs as "Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free" and this is something I live by.
As a sidenote, I think this is one of the best Hollywood movies not to have won an oscar
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Cheers,
Because I have an orange fuzzy handlebar moustache and it's awesome?
my favourite chess player
victhestick wrote:
I always wanted to be king.
Me Too..!!
Dec 16, 2009
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chess_kebabs wrote:
I think this was a very big error on behalf of the Academy to not award the directors/producers of this movie an Oscar.. it's acclaimed as a very popular and respected movie.
And you did my trick Ahhca, you typed 'one' where you meant to type 'won'... I do that all the time...
ha ha, nice one babs...Happens.. I was actually editing it when you were posting I suppose :). The irony was that the Oscars in 1994 was swept by Tom Hank's Forrest Gump which in itself was so inspiring! Bad timing to have released the movie maybe 
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@ Xylograph, ya Greenmile was just fantastic though I am yet to see "The mist" :).
At the cost of not turning this into a movie thread but still,
a trivia Quiz for u guys, what is the connect between "Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" apart from Frank Darabont?
Cheers,
The Wire is one of my favorite shows of all time, and I think Brother Muozone is one of the more interesting characters I've ever seen on a serial.
Dec 16, 2009
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chess_kebabs wrote:
Gert-Jan wrote:
My photo is a picture of the black king of my set of chess pieces. It is a very detailed chess set. As you see the black king has a beard.
Looks like a very special set Gert-Jan.. we have a marble set here at home which we bought from an auction.. I play sometimes with my son, but he dropped the knight and crack, there goes his head... tried one superglue but the pieces would not bind. :(
What a pitty that the knight broke. I don't use my chess pieces for playing. I bought them second handed and it has been used for playing. the faces of the pieces or not as beautifull as the used to be.
My name I originally had RENEGADE in Star Wars Battlefront, but when I used it as an online alias for Battlefield 2142 I had to include a number, so I used 9. Almost all my online aliases are either renegade9 or renegade_9. My profile pic changes often depending on my mood, for now, it's HAL9000.
>>Renegade
Dec 16, 2009
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#37
Sand clock of time - belongs to "death" in the Terry Pratchett film "The HogFather".
"tried one superglue but the pieces would not bind. :("
Have you tried sanding the relevant (internal) faces, so that the glue has something to "key" into? An Epoxy adhesive may be the answer.
Its our Mansion over in Tahiti, but i gotta chnge to either of Miami, Washington DC, Newyork, Liverpool, Manchester or any other.
Cuz' this mansion is somewhat common to me, and may be to you.
It is impossible to be sad with this mug staring back at you.
(nice laceration)