Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: FlyingBlind on January 23, 2006, 12:18:10 PM
Title: Avatar request..
Post by: FlyingBlind on January 23, 2006, 12:18:10 PM
So i was looking at the peoples avatars ,and i like the ones on the makers of this comic... I was wondering if you could make me one ? Its just a question ,not a demand...
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on January 26, 2006, 04:14:51 PM
It's your lucky day! I did this here yesterday as a "warm up exercise"! :) Is that approximately what you look like? The 65x65 one should work well in here!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: FlyingBlind on January 26, 2006, 04:28:06 PM
Add 50 cm of hair and yes :D thats what i look like :D thanks a lot mate
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Post by: fireflyr on January 26, 2006, 05:02:43 PM
OH NO!!!, Mike, You know you're gonna be flooded with requests now!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: FlyingBlind on January 26, 2006, 06:50:27 PM
NOt if he removes this FAST :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on January 26, 2006, 09:24:43 PM
Well... I don't see this as a big threat... Many people already have a cool avatar anyway! The worst thing that can happen is somebody asking for it and I go "sorry, got no time" or "maybe later..." ;)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Sleek-Jet on January 26, 2006, 10:46:28 PM
LOL... that's got to be one of the best avatars I've seen... ;D ;D
Would you be terribly offended if I showed it to some people I know that skydive on another site??? ???
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on January 26, 2006, 11:56:51 PM
Glad you like it! :) Go ahead! I think maybe I will put it into the "various stuff" section of our website to the other avatars anyway! But tell 'em where you got it from, okay? ;D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on January 27, 2006, 12:34:57 AM
Got one stored in your pen that would fit an aged Airtac pilot??????????????
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mark on January 27, 2006, 01:05:24 AM
ah so the requests begin
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mike on January 27, 2006, 05:32:15 AM
Got one stored in your pen that would fit an aged Airtac pilot??????????????
Let me put in a good word for you Jim! I mean after all that "rough" time we spent together in WMC....
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mark on January 27, 2006, 02:29:45 PM
I had a good idea. How about you guys make up some sort of contest and the winner gets a personalized avatar.
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on January 27, 2006, 03:12:27 PM
@fireflyr: Hm, okay, give me some time! what is the typical characteristic of an airtac pilot? (since an avatar is rather small, badges on a jacket won't help). Do you guys wear red caps or something like that?
@mark: good idea! We'll do that if we're really flooded with requests some day! ;)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on January 27, 2006, 08:30:41 PM
Hit Mike for a description---he knows what I look like or the suck and blow airplane that I fly,
I'm afraid if I envision something it will be rather like a Norse God or some kind of square chinned, resolute hero. Inflated egomaniacal self images are SOOOOOO prevalent among aviators, you know!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on January 27, 2006, 08:36:19 PM
Actually, now that I think about it---I suppose the "deer in the headlights" look with a headset is common to Airtac pilots plus we're dizzy half the time after flying tight right-hand circles for 3 and half hours at a time!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Have Blue on January 28, 2006, 07:57:45 PM
Do I even have an avatar? Well, lets see. :P
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on February 03, 2006, 05:34:56 PM
I guess you know the saying "Good things come to those who wait"! :) Well here's the avatar requested by fireflyr! Hope you like it! I just couldn't resist putting some fire in the picture... and just after I was finished I noticed that I made bird out of you, while so far all the others were human... hmm... funny, it seems that drawing chickens comes naturally to me!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on February 04, 2006, 04:08:26 PM
Holy Cow Stef----That is AWESOME!!!!! I've been told I have a rather large nose (beak) so it actually looks like me!!!!!!!!! :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on February 04, 2006, 04:11:34 PM
That being said, How do I make it come up on a reply?
Humor me here, I'm illiterate on this computer thingy.
Thanks, Jim
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on February 04, 2006, 11:20:24 PM
Hi Jim! I thought I'd set it up for you... If you want to choose it somewhere else, I think you'd have to save it somewhere on your computer and then upload it again (to wherever you want to use it). Right now the image file is on our server, so it should be safe until the next serious update! ;)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on February 05, 2006, 04:23:13 AM
Fantastic Stef! I just switched to cable today and I've barely got this thing running so I'll get one of my grandsons over soon to show me how to get it!!
Thanks again and don't lose it---I'm pleased and excited--which at my age doesn't happen enough.
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mike on February 05, 2006, 05:11:42 AM
Hey Jim!
You can also save your new avatar by right-clicking one of the two pictures in my brothers post and then just click on "save picture as". That way you can save it somewhere as a jpeg-file. (if you want)...
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Turbomallard on February 14, 2006, 04:36:07 PM
Well... I don't see this as a big threat... Many people already have a cool avatar anyway! The worst thing that can happen is somebody asking for it and I go "sorry, got no time" or "maybe later..." ;)
Hey, can I have one? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze? I've made contributions to the forum, bought the book and two shirts! And linked the site from my Yahoo360 page. And told people about it. Let's see, anything I've forgotten about in this blatant attempt to brown nose? No, I think I covered everything.
I've always imagined a Turbomallard avtar as a grimacing duck wearing goggles with turbojet engines under each wing shooting through the sky...
Actually, kinda sad that that's all I aspire to, but hey, I'm realistic. You take what life hands you. And, frankly, anyone who gets to fly an aircraft is one lucky SOB. As John Monnett put it to me: Out of all of human history, to be born now and in a place where you can learn to fly, be lucky enough to afford it... the odds are astronmomical. Win the lottery? We've already won it!
TM
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on February 14, 2006, 05:14:40 PM
As John Monnett put it to me: Out of all of human history, to be born now and in a place where you can learn to fly, be lucky enough to afford it... the odds are astronmomical. Win the lottery? We've already won it! TM
What a beautiful sentiment. :'(
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on February 14, 2006, 07:28:34 PM
Hey Turbomallard! Wow, you sound like a real fan!! Of course you'll get an avatar... seems like that's the least we can do! :) But I'm terribly busy this week, so you'll have to be patient! Give me a week (or maybe two)! So, should I draw the duck with a brown nose then?! ;D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Turbomallard on February 14, 2006, 07:50:26 PM
Hey Turbomallard! Wow, you sound like a real fan!! Of course you'll get an avatar... seems like that's the least we can do! :) But I'm terribly busy this week, so you'll have to be patient! Give me a week (or maybe two)! So, should I draw the duck with a brown nose then?! ;D
Hey, no rush... I'm just very appreciative of your time. As for the "beak" yellow would be more appropriate... but I suppose it could be fixed in Photoshop by me if it's the wrong color (I LOVE technology (especially when it works)!)
TM
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on February 20, 2006, 11:33:22 PM
So, here you go! :D I turned the two engines into one backpacked one... thought this would look cooler. I enjoyed drawing this motive so much, I made a bigger version and created a desktop from it! I will upload it shortly in our "various stuff" section as soon as I find the time!
Hope you like it! ;D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Turbomallard on February 21, 2006, 06:20:43 PM
WOW!!! That is supremely awesome!!!! Thanks guys!!!!!
TM
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on February 21, 2006, 11:10:02 PM
Glad you like it! :D Like I said, I really enjoyed drawing it! If you want to have this duck as a wallpaper, go to the "various stuff" section. I just uploaded it!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Frank N. O. on February 22, 2006, 12:39:58 AM
Wow! That's got to be one of the coolest personal avatars I've ever seen! Fantastic drawing :) And btw don't worry I'm not asking for one, I have no bird I identify with anyway.
Frank
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on February 22, 2006, 05:33:05 PM
@ Frank: There's bird types for everyone out there! ;D @ Everybody: I just revoked the maximum avatar size... so you can display bigger ones than 65x65 Pixel now. If it's too large it won't fit though. I think 120px is about the maximum now...
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on February 23, 2006, 01:20:03 AM
hey stef, mind if i jump on the bandwagon?? look at my current avatar and use your imagination....the hat backwards is my signature look....oh, and ask your brother about my x-mas/holiday "vacation" and you might be able to implement that too! (yeah, it's pretty serious but i have a sense of humor about it now....)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on February 23, 2006, 11:00:01 AM
Uhm, okay! I'll think up something! As usual, please give me some time!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Frank N. O. on February 23, 2006, 05:55:26 PM
Stef: Hehe yeah I guess we've all been feeling like a chicken at least once (that reminds me of the santa strip, that was so funny!).
Hehe and now Hijinx, if this keeps up then the whole forum is going to look like a comic strip, cool! :D
Frank
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on March 09, 2006, 04:23:45 PM
Hehe, well, Plthijnx, you brought this one upon yourself! ;D ;D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 09, 2006, 05:14:10 PM
LMAO!!! that's PERFECT!!! thanks Stef!!!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Firegirl on March 09, 2006, 07:43:23 PM
Right down to the orange jumpsuit and everything.......that's awesome!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: KELPkid on March 09, 2006, 08:30:49 PM
Hey, could I get one too...
I was thinking on the lines of rolling a Cessna inverted, while wearing foggles, with the instructor or safety pilot in the right seat freaking out :P
Thanks!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on March 09, 2006, 11:32:17 PM
Haha! Why not add a couple more characters?! ;D Seriously, I think the concept should be a bit simpler (especially reduced to one character), and you also can't possibly show a certain aircraft type AND get a shot on the face. Can you think of something? And what are "foggles"?! ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: KELPkid on March 09, 2006, 11:44:43 PM
Haha! Why not add a couple more characters?! ;D Seriously, I think the concept should be a bit simpler (especially reduced to one character), and you also can't possibly show a certain aircraft type AND get a shot on the face. Can you think of something? And what are "foggles"?! ;D ;D ;D
That would be these...http://www.foggles.com/body_pilot_training_foggles.html Okay, okay, I'll try to think of something more simple :'(
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 10, 2006, 02:03:06 PM
Right down to the orange jumpsuit and everything.......that's awesome!
yeah, needless to say, i don't like the color orange any more.....well, orange scrubs anyway....at least the ones that say "county jail" on the back..... :-\
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Inept on March 10, 2006, 02:14:59 PM
Haha! Why not add a couple more characters?! ;D Seriously, I think the concept should be a bit simpler (especially reduced to one character), and you also can't possibly show a certain aircraft type AND get a shot on the face. Can you think of something? And what are "foggles"?! ;D ;D ;D
That would be these...http://www.foggles.com/body_pilot_training_foggles.html Okay, okay, I'll try to think of something more simple :'(
HAHA! I thought it was a typo! ;D Since the "f" is right next to the "g" on the keyboard... Well, we live and learn!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Frank N. O. on March 11, 2006, 05:47:20 AM
ROFL, that is such a great one!! At this rate you'll have the whole forum look like a cartoon before christmass :D
Frank
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on March 24, 2006, 11:32:34 AM
So KELPkid! Did you come up with a simpler idea already?! ???
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: FlyingBlind on March 28, 2006, 10:40:44 PM
We should really make the comic about US :P
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: madpilot44 on March 29, 2006, 04:06:42 AM
hey! while KELPkid comes up with his idea, can I have my own avatar? I would really like one. I was thinking about something related with my nickname... perhaps a mad hawk (I have this thing about hawks...) and if you guys need any more help, I've uploaded my pic into the forum.
Thanks a lot!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on March 30, 2006, 10:17:06 AM
Hm, a mad hawk... I think that could look funny! :D I will put it on my list! As usual, it will take a while.
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: madpilot44 on March 30, 2006, 03:30:11 PM
thanks stef!! I can't wait to see it jaja :) how about a mad hawk with a mohawk? just a thought there jaja
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 30, 2006, 06:53:08 PM
Here is an idea... and I know it would take a long time to do... but if there were avatars for all the regular posters, then they could maybe appear now and then as passengers on a roost-air flight! :) (Ok... if Chuck is flying, that's one occassion where I will have my parachute handy) :)
Just a thought... I don't know what I'd have for an avatar for me... I did once earn the nickname "Submarine Commander". Seems that I had, at one time, turned my military service cap (the hard-billed USAF type) backwards and was speaking Russian while pretending to torpedo things.... yes... I was very drunk at the time... one one of two occassions where I got plastered... but the cause was just... it was at the end of an exhausting two weeks of 18 hour days on duty doing SAR work. I guess then I would be more like a "Buck Murdock" from Airplane II. You remember... Bill Shatner (Captain Kirk), played him... the commander of Alpha Beta Base on the moon. The lights are flashing and their blinking.... SOMEBODY PULL THE PLUG! ;D ;D
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Post by: Plthijnx on March 30, 2006, 06:56:12 PM
I love that idea, Ted! So would I be a passenger on "con-air"? ;D ::)
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Post by: Mike on March 30, 2006, 07:02:50 PM
You should post a picture Ted! This will help as well.
I like the idea you proposed. Every now and then we need a few "extras" in our strips. And I am more than certain, we can fit in plthijnx as well! ;)
Edit: The more I think about it the more I like it. "FireFlyer" is the first one who comes to mind as the character of an "experienced" pilot in a bar giving Chuck all kinds of advise. Not sure where to fit in the "Turbo Mallard" yet and we already have a bunch of crazy Skydivers scripted for a few strips you guys will see later. More input guys!!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mike on March 30, 2006, 07:09:05 PM
Oh ! Just thought of something! Maybe we can turn Ted in some sort of an engineer kind of bird who knows a lot of stuff and has good explanations to Chucks questions which, of course, Chuck never understands. Kind of like "Mr. Wilson" and "Tim -the toolman- Taylor" in the show "tool time"....
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Frank N. O. on March 30, 2006, 07:23:25 PM
Mad Hawk, love the idea, and I'll be glad to see something else than a skull, it's scary, although at least you yourself am friendly :)
Lol, yeah Home Improvements (called: Ten Thumbs in danish) was a great show as long as one understood the comedy in it, and luckily I did.
Fireflyr does seem like the wise old bird indeed, but who's gonna be Al? :D And just out of curiosity, would I fit in anywhere in that universe? Just curious as to how other people see me, no problem if you haven't thought of it, I'm just trying to enjoy the company here (I've had a rough day so this is helping), actually have a list of pictures and stuff to post but I'll reserve it to when I get really into the mood so I can make the posts good.
Thanks for the friendly atmosphere :) Frank
P.S. I'll try and see if Racerplanet can't lend you some smilies they would be easier to recognize for me at least, the normal smilie looks like a croocked smile for instance but I need to check up on smilie copyrights first off of course, fair is fair.
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 30, 2006, 07:58:44 PM
Oh ! Just thought of something! Maybe we can turn Ted in some sort of an engineer kind of bird who knows a lot of stuff and has good explanations to Chucks questions which, of course, Chuck never understands. Kind of like "Mr. Wilson" and "Tim -the toolman- Taylor" in the show "tool time"....
Well, I am a software engineer... so that works ;D I loved the Tim Taylor character :) Remind me to tell you guys of the time I got bucked off a horse at a full run on my first date out with a girl... ended up in the hospital over the weekend... somehow she never went on a second date with me... hehehehe ::) Uh oh... I really DO sound like Tim Taylor now! :D ;D :D
I'm glad to see that you like my idea :) I'll work on getting a photo posted tonight. I don't have any on my PC here at work :)
Thanks for the compliment on my explanations :) One of these days I hope to be a CFI. Just a matter of time and $$$ :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mike on March 30, 2006, 10:33:15 PM
Actually I had you in mind for the "Mr. Wilson" character. The guy who gives advice, because Chuck is more like the Tim Taylor character.
Are you working on your CFI??
Hey, did Turbo Mallard ever get his CFII ??
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 30, 2006, 10:51:51 PM
Actually I had you in mind for the "Mr. Wilson" character. The guy who gives advice, because Chuck is more like the Tim Taylor character.
Are you working on your CFI??
Hey, did Turbo Mallard ever get his CFII ??
The Mr. Wilson type is good too :) I'm not yet working on my CFI, but I do volunteer time at the St. Louis Science Center here, and give people the chance to learn a bit about aviation and how to fly around a bit using MSFS 2004, so I do know that I like to teach. I'm about 3/5ths of the way through my Instrument Rating training currently. Got a bit over 300 hours, so I'm doing my Instrument via Part 141.
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 31, 2006, 01:44:49 AM
edit: i'll just be the ramp misfit. i do alright in the air, it's on the ground that i tend to F up. (5 points to anyone who can tell me the movie that the last sentence came from......AND it's where i got my internet user name as well, only i had to shorten it at the time from pilot-hi-jinx.....)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 31, 2006, 02:46:11 AM
I'm not yet working on my CFI, but I do volunteer time at the St. Louis Science Center here, and give people the chance to learn a bit about aviation and how to fly around a bit using MSFS 2004, so I do know that I like to teach. I'm about 3/5ths of the way through my Instrument Rating training currently. Got a bit over 300 hours, so I'm doing my Instrument via Part 141.
keep at it Ted. I can't tell you how much $$ i wasted starting and stopping for that rating. and depending on where you are and what school you go to will dictate how hard your CFI will be. a few years back i tried twice here in houston where you have to use the FSDO. that aint easy!
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Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 31, 2006, 05:05:45 AM
edit: i'll just be the ramp misfit. i do alright in the air, it's on the ground that i tend to F up. (5 points to anyone who can tell me the movie that the last sentence came from......AND it's where i got my internet user name as well, only i had to shorten it at the time from pilot-hi-jinx.....)
Isn't that from Hot Shots?
Yay, 5 pts to me!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on March 31, 2006, 10:04:59 AM
Haha!! If we really pick up all those great ideas we would have to make a movie! :D
Fireflyr does seem like the wise old bird indeed, but who's gonna be Al? :D And just out of curiosity, would I fit in anywhere in that universe?
Actually, I think you would be the perfect Al character! Because sometimes you come up with perfectly logical and rational explanations when everybody else is just monkeying around! ;D ;D
But before everybody's volunteering to become a cartoon character, here's three things to consider: 1) We can't turn everybody into a character. Well maybe if we're as big as the Simpsons some day and have an animated series... (I just wanted to say this here, because I'm the one who has to draw all this! ;D ) 2) It usually takes us a long time from the idea of a character until he finally appears in a comic. 3) You're going to be made fun of!! Heedless of your personal feelings! ;D The "real" Jason has already asked us if he really is such a terrible student. No, of course he's not!
Having added these words of caution, bring on the ideas again! :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 31, 2006, 12:22:48 PM
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 31, 2006, 12:41:15 PM
i've got a story/comic that everyone can relate to and probably 90% of us have done. let's see a show of hands of how many of us have been walking accross the ramp and you're not paying attention and you bang the sh@% out of your head on the aileron of a cessna. i've done that more than once and have also ran into the horizontal stabilizer of the geronimo. more than once hmmmm, this is giving me an idea for a new thread.......Freddy
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on March 31, 2006, 05:23:58 PM
That's right, it's Terminal Velocity! I knew it was a Charlie Sheen line.
Yay, 2.5 pts!
Never hit my head on a Cessna, but I did crack my head on a flap rail on a PC-12. Had just given it a bath and was squeegeing the floor underneath it. Walked underneath the wing and found myself on the floor. I was also pre-flighting a Seminole one day and stood up into the prop. It caught me between my shoulder and my neck. Sort of a Piper version of the Vulcan Neck Pinch.
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Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 31, 2006, 05:44:26 PM
i've got a story/comic that everyone can relate to and probably 90% of us have done. let's see a show of hands of how many of us have been walking accross the ramp and you're not paying attention and you bang the sh@% out of your head on the aileron of a cessna. i've done that more than once and have also ran into the horizontal stabilizer of the geronimo. more than once hmmmm, this is giving me an idea for a new thread.......Freddy
Oh yeah... done that!! You know how the aileron on a Cessna has those nice little ribbings .... well, I was preflighting and someone came up behind me to ask a question, we spoke, and I forgot how close I was to the aileron. With the gust lock still in, it wasn't moving anywhere, and I turned around and WHAM... ended up with a nice set of diamond shaped indentations right along my forehead! Luckily it didn't cut, or scar as a result.... that would have been a unique fashion statement indeed!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 31, 2006, 05:52:53 PM
I'm not yet working on my CFI, but I do volunteer time at the St. Louis Science Center here, and give people the chance to learn a bit about aviation and how to fly around a bit using MSFS 2004, so I do know that I like to teach. I'm about 3/5ths of the way through my Instrument Rating training currently. Got a bit over 300 hours, so I'm doing my Instrument via Part 141.
keep at it Ted. I can't tell you how much $$ i wasted starting and stopping for that rating. and depending on where you are and what school you go to will dictate how hard your CFI will be. a few years back i tried twice here in houston where you have to use the FSDO. that aint easy!
Thanks :) I know what you mean about wasting money with the start and stop syndrome. I had that happen to me during my initial flight training for a short while.
Going through the FSDO would be quite nerve wracking indeed!! It might actually make one less nervous though on the checkride since they probably grill you pretty well :) I know the local FSDO rep here, and he's a terrific guy. I sure wouldn't want to get him upset at me though :) He's a former Vietnam chopper pilot in fact, and makes the rounds at the local Flight Safety Clinics. He gives out little red adhesive dots that he asks you to put on your watch. They are to get you to stop, and think, as a memory mnemonic, so you can double check yourself that you've done everything you are supposed to do on flight prep before you take off. Got one on my watch right now in fact. As Fred (the FSDO guy) says.... it also can be a conversation starter... "What's that red dot for?" ;D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 31, 2006, 05:58:24 PM
LOL! that's funny! i'm sure not at the time but the way you put it......:D
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Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 31, 2006, 06:05:48 PM
Mike... fyi, we had some bad storms pass through the area here last night and power went out. Hopefully all will be operational tonight and I'll post my photo.
Saw your post regarding the warnings, etc. No problem there :) I'm usually the first to laugh at some of the funny things I end up doing :) Gotta have a sense of humor in life... it's too short as is to go through it grumpy ;D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mike on March 31, 2006, 06:54:33 PM
Oh yeah! THE CESSNA DIAMOND !! We should do a strip about that, or at least a single-panel-joke for the book and the voting incentives... Good idea, I am sure Chuck has had (maybe a few too many) those before. ;D
Who put this one up? |:)\ That's awesome!!!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 31, 2006, 07:44:24 PM
where did you find that imocon mike?
cool! my 200th post!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: madpilot44 on March 31, 2006, 07:54:08 PM
i've got a story/comic that everyone can relate to and probably 90% of us have done. let's see a show of hands of how many of us have been walking accross the ramp and you're not paying attention and you bang the sh@% out of your head on the aileron of a cessna. i've done that more than once and have also ran into the horizontal stabilizer of the geronimo. more than once hmmmm, this is giving me an idea for a new thread.......Freddy
I've done it. a few years ago I was in charge of a cessna 172, and I was checking it after a flight when my phone rang, I got it while still walking to the cockpit, and was checking the caller ID while suddenly BANG! I knocked my head with the wing strut... it was a busy afternoon so I heard a couple of laughs and laughed at myself. it turns out the caller was my girlfriend at the time, who also laughed when I told her
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Plthijnx on March 31, 2006, 08:50:36 PM
ahhhh yes. the sweet aroma of entertainment through the pain of others! i used to race motocross and supercross and did a mighty fine job of keeping the crowd entertained!
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on March 31, 2006, 10:51:39 PM
If you use firflyr in one at least paint flames on my walker--my nurse here at the old pilots home thinks it gives me some panache!---Turns the old biddy on!!!! GRRRRR! ;)
Ted is without a doubt the one for Wilson, a virtual fountain of information that Chuck will never understand.
Them little bitty forehead marks are the Purple Heart decoration of experienced Cessna pilots but if you think walking into a wing while talking on the phone is dumb, lemme tell you about the day I was eating an ice cream cone and talking on my phone when I had to yell at the fuel guy about topping off my tanks and after yelling at him I resumed my phone call by jamming the ice cream into my left ear!!! :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
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Post by: Ted_Stryker on March 31, 2006, 11:15:19 PM
If you use firflyr in one at least paint flames on my walker--my nurse here at the old pilots home thinks it gives me some panache!---Turns the old biddy on!!!! GRRRRR! ;)
Ted is without a doubt the one for Wilson, a virtual fountain of information that Chuck will never understand.
Them little bitty forehead marks are the Purple Heart decoration of experienced Cessna pilots but if you think walking into a wing while talking on the phone is dumb, lemme tell you about the day I was eating an ice cream cone and talking on my phone when I had to yell at the fuel guy about topping off my tanks and after yelling at him I resumed my phone call by jamming the ice cream into my left ear!!! :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Looks like if Mike works up an Avatar for me it'll have the lower half of my face covered by the P.O.H. or the FAR/AIM :)
Look at it this way, fireflyr... you could have a new career in sales. After all... isn't what you did the very definition of "cold calling" ? ;D
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Post by: fireflyr on April 01, 2006, 12:39:56 AM
edit: i'll just be the ramp misfit. i do alright in the air, it's on the ground that i tend to F up. (5 points to anyone who can tell me the movie that the last sentence came from......AND it's where i got my internet user name as well, only i had to shorten it at the time from pilot-hi-jinx.....)
Let's see... Billy Covington, Air America?
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Post by: Plthijnx on April 01, 2006, 01:30:41 PM
yep! way to go Mo! and you get an extra 5 points for naming the characters name!
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Post by: Gulfstream Driver on April 01, 2006, 04:15:37 PM
DUH! Air America! *smacks forehead*
Good job, Mo.
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Post by: MO on April 03, 2006, 03:54:31 AM
Yay!!! Ten points!!! Thanx!!!
I love that movie... Seen it like a thousand times.
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Post by: Stef on April 04, 2006, 07:28:08 PM
Here you go, madpilot! A mad hawk with a mohawk...
I kept the whole design blueish for no other reason than that you had a blue sweater on your picture and also it's one of the colors of the flag of Guatemala...
Hope you like it! ;D
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Post by: madpilot44 on April 05, 2006, 12:53:39 AM
WOW!!! that's really nice stef THANKS A LOT. I really liked it a lot. BTW you really got it with the blue, it's my favorite color.
I guess with that I'm all set for when you guys want to put us in a cartoon. would love to see that!! and I wouldn't mind if you make it funny (the more the better, after all, what would life be if you couldn't have a laugh or two about yourself). so count me in if you ever make one |:)\
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Post by: Frank N. O. on April 05, 2006, 02:19:32 AM
Simply wow!
Frank
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Post by: Mike on April 05, 2006, 04:45:11 AM
nice work, lil' bro!!! This one needs to be a character someday!!
It kind of reminds me of myself and the picture I posted of Tex and I with our ship "Panaca Jane"
Coincidence???
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Post by: Ted_Stryker on April 05, 2006, 07:29:39 AM
Excellent Avatar!!! I like it a lot!!
I finally got my photo together to upload here too... will post it in the "Post Your Photo" area :)
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Post by: fireflyr on April 05, 2006, 09:27:05 AM
HAAAHAA ;D Great one Stef---it also made me think of the pic of Mike and Tex in front of that ugly blue and yellow flying machine!!! relax Mike-just kidding!
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Post by: Plthijnx on April 05, 2006, 05:33:46 PM
yeah! that is a very nice job!!
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Post by: Stef on April 05, 2006, 07:52:33 PM
Thank you all! Glad you like it! Ha, designing avatars is maybe not the best paid work, but certainly very rewarding! ;D
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Post by: chuckar101 on May 09, 2006, 05:04:33 AM
@stef- Great avatar
@mike-The avatar reminds me more of Tex then you though.
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Post by: Mike on May 09, 2006, 06:00:18 AM
@mike-The avatar reminds me more of Tex then you though.
huh?! which avatar? mine? what are you talking about?
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Post by: chuckar101 on May 11, 2006, 03:55:20 AM
Sorry I was referring to the conversation about madpilots avatar and the comment you made about how it remided you of the picture of you in front of Panaca Jane. Sorry about the confusion that was a long night.
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Post by: Turbomallard on May 30, 2006, 02:35:34 PM
Given Happylanding's wonderfully prolific participation here, me thinks she should have an avatar! How about it?
TM
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Post by: Roland on May 30, 2006, 03:14:33 PM
You are right!!! |:)\
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Post by: fireflyr on May 30, 2006, 04:50:24 PM
OH OH Stef, the pressure's on!!!!!! :o
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Post by: Stef on May 30, 2006, 08:06:47 PM
Haha! Bring on the pressure! I can take it! :P To be fair, I only accept avatar requests from the actual person... How come you guys haven't asked for anybody elses avatar yet?! ::) ::) Gotta have something to do with a special liking of Italian Swiss! ;D So, happylanding, do you really want your own avatar?
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Post by: happylanding on May 30, 2006, 08:39:03 PM
Gosh Boys,
that is really kind from your side!!! I have to be honest, I was worrying that maybe I'm talking tooooooooooo much, but it was a long time I was not enjoying soooooooooooo much either! :D :D :D (......and if I do talk too much, you tell me/confirm me, okay????!!!)
So, having an avatar designed from Stef surely is a great honour! But, I wanna be sure that it is not going to keep too much time and it doesn’t bother you doing so, okay? And well, thanks everybody!!!
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Post by: Stef on May 30, 2006, 08:56:44 PM
and if I do talk too much, you tell me/confirm me, okay????!!!
Haha! Well, I'm not an expert on the feminine psyche but I think I speak for all the guys in here when I say that we know better than to tell a woman she's talking to much! ;D
No worries! It usually takes some time, but I'm sure I can come up with something... I'm thinking along the lines of a pilot "chick", maybe with a headset... Any other suggestions or requests? (keep in mind that avatars are usually very small)... What's your favorite color, by the way?
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Post by: happylanding on May 30, 2006, 09:17:25 PM
Haha! Well, I'm not an expert on the feminine psyche but I think I speak for all the guys in here when I say that we know better than to tell a woman she's talking to much! ;D
No worries! It usually takes some time, but I'm sure I can come up with something... I'm thinking along the lines of a pilot "chick", maybe with a headset... Any other suggestions or requests? (keep in mind that avatars are usually very small)... What's your favorite color, by the way?
:D :D Since some hrs ago I was neither thinking about an avatar, I will let you decide about it...I've no particular suggestions or requests. the headset sounds good...and I have no ideas, actually! and about the fav colour, that is easier: that's red. And, Stef, take all the time you need, I'm in no hurry! And thanks again! :) :)
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Post by: FlyingBlind on May 30, 2006, 09:55:21 PM
I actually have one...can you make a eagle with long hair with a parachute :P ? Cause that one i have (which is good by the way!) does not look like me at all :P (ooh ooh, add ozzy glasses :P)
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Post by: Mike on May 30, 2006, 10:13:01 PM
Uhm... ...I think she looks a little like Shakira (at least on the picture...)
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Post by: fireflyr on May 30, 2006, 11:17:08 PM
Uhm... ...I think she looks a little like Shakira (at least on the picture...)
What or who is a "Shakira"? ???
Haha! This gives away your age! ;)
This here is a Shakira: http://channels.netscape.com/celebrity/gallery.jsp?gname=shakira (she's a singer from Colombia, very famous in Latin America and also in the US and Europe since she started singing in English).
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Post by: Stef on May 30, 2006, 11:52:50 PM
I actually have one...can you make a eagle with long hair with a parachute :P ? Cause that one i have (which is good by the way!) does not look like me at all :P (ooh ooh, add ozzy glasses :P)
Hey! don't be immodest! You already got one! Maybe someday if I'm really really really bored... :P
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Post by: chuckar101 on May 31, 2006, 01:01:44 AM
Dang Fireflyr. You really need to keep up with the times man. Shakira is one of the hottest new singers out there, and you definately need to find a clip of one of her videos. Its quite amazing the way she moves her hips.
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Post by: Mike on May 31, 2006, 02:31:57 AM
See, what I was doing was paying her a huge compliment to make her forget the 30's comment posted earlier in another thread...
....plus I really do think she looks like Shakira in that picture.... (if Shakira was flying old planes over Italy.... that's how I think she would look like....)
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Post by: fireflyr on May 31, 2006, 02:35:24 AM
Dang Fireflyr. You really need to keep up with the times man. Shakira is one of the hottest new singers out there, and you definately need to find a clip of one of her videos. Its quite amazing the way she moves her hips.
OK Chukar, I found one where she's wearing orange pants and 6" stilletto heels in Vegas for the MTV thing-------WHEW! at my age it's hard---------er---I mean difficult to watch without the staff here at the nursing home taking my remote away!! They hate it when grampa Clem (my roomie) and I start yelling YEEEHA and dancing with the gals here---our walkers get tangled up and before ya know it somebody's going to get an eye poked out. She's downright HOT! I'm tellin' ya HOT!!! oops, gotta go, the nurse is coming with the bedpan............ 8)
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Post by: Mike on May 31, 2006, 02:38:41 AM
Dang Fireflyr. You really need to keep up with the times man. Shakira is one of the hottest new singers out there, and you definately need to find a clip of one of her videos. Its quite amazing the way she moves her hips.
OK Chukar, I found one where she's wearing orange pants and 6" stilletto heels in Vegas for the MTV thing-------WHEW! at my age it's hard---------er---I mean difficult to watch without the staff here at the nursing home taking my remote away!! They hate it when grampa Clem (my roomie) and I start yelling YEEEHA and dancing with the gals here---our walkers get tangled up and before ya know it somebody's going to get an eye poked out. She's downright HOT! I'm tellin' ya HOT!!! oops, gotta go, the nurse is coming with the bedpan............ 8)
HA HA! I like those quotes you come up with! But knowing you personally and Chuckar as well, I know you can still kick his a$$ with your walker!!
oh, and btw...yes! Shakira is hot!!
(but I wonder if she can fly planes like happlanding does ;))
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Post by: Turbomallard on May 31, 2006, 02:53:08 AM
HA HA! I like those quotes you come up with! But knowing you personally and Chuckar as well, I know you can still kick his a$$ with your walker!!
oh, and btw...yes! Shakira is hot!!
(but I wonder if she can fly planes like happlanding does ;))
Naaaa... here's the one for you:
http://copterchick.blogspot.com/
Or this one: http://spaces.msn.com/staciaka/
Both of these wonderful ladies are interviewed in "One Six Right." If only I were about 10 years younger... I'd ask one of them to dinner... and she'd slap me and steal my lunch money. But hey, it would be worth it...
TM
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Post by: Mike on May 31, 2006, 03:07:21 AM
HA HA !!! Are you serious, TM?
Guess who taught "copterchick" how to fight fires and showed her how to fly in the mountains??? (of course it doesn't show in her blog)
I even hired her to work for us this year but it didn't work out well. I trained her some but then Coastal Hellicopters stole her away from us. We are good friends and let me tell you, even if you WERE 10 years younger, she would still give you a run for your money. I won't get into any details....
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Post by: Turbomallard on May 31, 2006, 03:15:28 AM
Guess who taught "copterchick" how to fight fires and showed her how to fly in the mountains??? (of course it doesn't show in her blog)
I even hired her to work for us this year but it didn't work out well. I trained her some but then Coastal Hellicopters stole her away from us. We are good friends and let me tell you, even if you WERE 10 years younger, she would still give you a run for your money. I won't get into any details....
Um, yeah... I'm sure she would. Sigh. Guess I'll have to cross her off my list. That leaves Louisa Knapp, Pam Melroy... and I've forgotten the name of new Thunderbird pilot...
TM
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Post by: chuckar101 on May 31, 2006, 03:56:58 AM
Bring it on Fireflyr. I'll do my best to keep up with you and that walker. Just joking man, and Mike's right you definately make some quite hilarious comments.
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Post by: happylanding on May 31, 2006, 12:05:06 PM
Gosh, boys, I'm reddening with the comparison!!!! there isn't any blushing smiley?!?!?
BTW I do not know if she flies as I do, but I do know that I do not usually check the plane moving the hips as she does...... ;)
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Post by: SteepTurn on May 31, 2006, 12:57:48 PM
Given Happylanding's wonderfully prolific participation here, me thinks she should have an avatar! How about it?
TM
that's really a great idea!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Shakira is not too bad as examle.... obviously Shakira is not that gorgeous as happylanding is (so, this is the post that makes her (Shakira) delete my phone number.... ;D ;D) P.S. I'm thinking about a nice (special) caracteristic of her (happylanding).... 8)
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Post by: happylanding on May 31, 2006, 01:07:26 PM
Given Happylanding's wonderfully prolific participation here, me thinks she should have an avatar! How about it?
TM
that's really a great idea!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Shakira is not too bad as examle.... obviously Shakira is not that gorgeous as happylanding is (so, this is the post that makes her (Shakira) delete my phone number.... ;D ;D) P.S. I'm thinking about a nice (special) caracteristic of her (happylanding).... 8)
C'mon mates, aren't you pilots, those confused souls who talk about women when around airplanes, and airplanes when around women?!?!?!? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Or maybe I'm the only one not around a plane right now?!?!? :o :o
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Post by: Roland on May 31, 2006, 01:09:30 PM
Right now I’m on a Robinson. Maybe that doesn’t count ….
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Post by: Mike on May 31, 2006, 03:57:19 PM
I think we're breaking new ground here:
Talking about airplanes WITH women !!! :o WOW!!
Tell everybody you've seen it here first, ... in the Chicken Wings Forum!! ;D
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Post by: happylanding on May 31, 2006, 04:02:48 PM
Both of these wonderful ladies are interviewed in "One Six Right." If only I were about 10 years younger... I'd ask one of them to dinner... and she'd slap me and steal my lunch money. But hey, it would be worth it...
TM
If I was ten years younger I'd still be OLD------but there's a silver lining to being considered old----you can flirt with every woman you meet and since they consider you harmless they'll flirt back!! It's more fun than you realize. Why, just last year I was hauled into court on a rape charge and the judge reduced it to assault with a dead weapon! ;D
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Post by: Turbomallard on May 31, 2006, 11:26:37 PM
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If I was ten years younger I'd still be OLD------but there's a silver lining to being considered old----you can flirt with every woman you meet and since they consider you harmless they'll flirt back!! It's more fun than you realize. Why, just last year I was hauled into court on a rape charge and the judge reduced it to assault with a dead weapon! ;D
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You have a ways to go to catch up with John Monnett, Sr. He's 94 now, I think, give or take a year. His son John is the designer of the Sonex, Sonerai, Moni, Monex, etc. They have a great party every year at their Sonex facility at Oshkosh during Airventure. John Monnett Sr. is always surrounded with women the ENTIRE night, their eyes sparkling, faces lit up with smiles as they listen to him. They won't give *me* the time of day, but they'll spend the entire evening with him! It's just not fair!
John Sr. is just plain remarkable in every way. He still drives from the Chicago area to Oshkosh to help out with the company builder workshops. One time I was talking with Tony Spicer, former USAF F-4 backseater who flew in Vietnam, and John Sr. punched him in the arm as he walked past. Tony let out a yelp and messaged his arm for the next several minutes! If I live to be anywhere near John Sr.'s age, I hope I'm half as active... and get half the attention from women he does.
TM
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Post by: Frank N. O. on May 31, 2006, 11:40:30 PM
that is really kind from your side!!! I have to be honest, I was worrying that maybe I'm talking tooooooooooo much, but it was a long time I was not enjoying soooooooooooo much either! :D :D :D (......and if I do talk too much, you tell me/confirm me, okay????!!!)
So, having an avatar designed from Stef surely is a great honour! But, I wanna be sure that it is not going to keep too much time and it doesn’t bother you doing so, okay? And well, thanks everybody!!!
I think you still have a little while to go to reach my level :D Look at my join-date and then at my post-count, and then look at some of my posts, specifically the length ;) I btw also asks to be informed if I talk too much and not really anything yet, and you seem every bit as polite as I try to be so I doubt there'll be any problems |:)\
Frank
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Post by: Roland on June 01, 2006, 05:42:27 AM
that is really kind from your side!!! I have to be honest, I was worrying that maybe I'm talking tooooooooooo much, but it was a long time I was not enjoying soooooooooooo much either! :D :D :D (......and if I do talk too much, you tell me/confirm me, okay????!!!)
So, having an avatar designed from Stef surely is a great honour! But, I wanna be sure that it is not going to keep too much time and it doesn’t bother you doing so, okay? And well, thanks everybody!!!
I think you still have a little while to go to reach my level :D Look at my join-date and then at my post-count, and then look at some of my posts, specifically the length ;) I btw also asks to be informed if I talk too much and not really anything yet, and you seem every bit as polite as I try to be so I doubt there'll be any problems |:)\
Frank
The secret is, we don’t have to read all …. ;) :D
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Post by: happylanding on June 01, 2006, 10:00:12 AM
To be fair, I only accept avatar requests from the actual person...
Hy Stef! So by the way... if you maybe catch a sick thougt in your mind.... ;D My Avatar could be something like Hans' body with type of Telly Savalas bald head.... and if you like glasses like "bottlebottoms"... 8) Anyway.. only if "passing by" you find something
thanks and again compliments for this gr8 forum and all the people in here!!!!
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Post by: Stef on June 04, 2006, 02:18:58 PM
Here you go, Happy!
Hope you like it...
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Post by: Stef on June 04, 2006, 02:20:57 PM
Hy Stef! So by the way... if you maybe catch a sick thougt in your mind.... ;D My Avatar could be something like Hans' body with type of Telly Savalas bald head.... and if you like glasses like "bottlebottoms"... 8) Anyway.. only if "passing by" you find something
thanks and again compliments for this gr8 forum and all the people in here!!!!
Hahaha!! A crossbreed of Hans and Telly Savallas?!?! That sounds like fun to draw!! ;D I'll try to come up with something!
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Post by: happylanding on June 04, 2006, 05:58:25 PM
Ohhhhhh! What a surprise!! Plus, you were incredibly speedy!!!Stef, it's GORGEOUS!!!!!!!thank you very very very much!!!! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) And well, I can't forget a kiss in that case :-* !!
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Post by: Mike on June 04, 2006, 07:56:45 PM
He He! Good work bro!
We should turn her into a character for our strips or something. Maybe something about a feude between her and Chuck or so.....
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Post by: happylanding on June 04, 2006, 08:36:19 PM
We should turn her into a character for our strips or something. Maybe something about a feude between her and Chuck or so.....
Wow!!! You've certainly made friends here faster than anyone I can remember! And the soonest to get a personal avatar! 8)
And Mike, I already suggested an intelligent female pilot to counter Chuck earlier if you remember. And seriously, Sally isn't the brightest bulb in the light-board (the comic character, not Promo-Chick!).
Frank
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Post by: SteepTurn on June 04, 2006, 09:46:00 PM
We should turn her into a character for our strips or something. Maybe something about a feude between her and Chuck or so.....
Wow!!! You've certainly made friends here faster than anyone I can remember! And the soonest to get a personal avatar! 8)
And Mike, I already suggested an intelligent female pilot to counter Chuck earlier if you remember. And seriously, Sally isn't the brightest bulb in the light-board (the comic character, not Promo-Chick!).
Frank
I remember Frank. But now that I have a visual image, I can really "see" this happening. I will think of a few ideas while I am out here sitting in the 107 degree heat (hopefully, unless my brain gets fried...)
(btw that's around 42 or so degrees celsius for the European friends....)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: happylanding on June 05, 2006, 08:40:55 AM
We should turn her into a character for our strips or something. Maybe something about a feude between her and Chuck or so.....
Wow!!! You've certainly made friends here faster than anyone I can remember! And the soonest to get a personal avatar! 8)
And Mike, I already suggested an intelligent female pilot to counter Chuck earlier if you remember. And seriously, Sally isn't the brightest bulb in the light-board (the comic character, not Promo-Chick!).
Frank
HAHA! It was the fastest avatar being drawn? I always say that discrimination doesn't exist....... ;) and you know? It's quite impossible not to befriend in this forum! let's say it's the coolest forum of all the net, with the coolest people! ;D ;D ......And.....there is a warning missing somewhere, like the one you find in the cigarettes packages: "this forum is an highly addictive drug!"
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: SteepTurn on June 05, 2006, 08:49:01 AM
Hy!
I already put Happys avatar on my mobile!! No, not as background, but related to her contact. Nice to see "her" pic when I get a call from her :D :D :D :D
@ Happy: maybe you have some additional idea for my avatar... @ Happy again: ..I see you're using my "addictive-statement"... but at least this forum doesn't harm the sperm as written on swiss cigarettes!!!! Ok, it can have a negative influence on reproduction, because people are chatting in here instead of....
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Post by: Ted_Stryker on June 05, 2006, 09:48:55 AM
Another nice job on the avatar for happylandings there Stef! You're very talented indeed!!
One of these days we'll have all the regulars with CW avatars :)
I was just watching my DVD's of "Wings" the other day... kind of reminds me a little of the Roost-Air crew :) Though Julio is far more capable than Lowell :)
Hmm... I guess I'm still more like Wilson from "Home Improvement" :) Which is cool too. :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: happylanding on June 05, 2006, 10:27:58 AM
@ Happy: maybe you have some additional idea for my avatar...
Sure I do. instead of a cloche in your hands you shuld have a bottle of beer...... ;) ;) ;) ;)
I prefer one of still water, 'cause I don't like the sparkling one. That's the way I usually carry around my schnaps ;) ...and/or a chicken leg (sorry chuck!!)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on June 05, 2006, 11:47:46 AM
HAHA! It was the fastest avatar being drawn? I always say that discrimination doesn't exist....... ;)
Hey! I won't let that stand here! Accusing ME of sexism!! Me! :'(
Your avatar took 5 days. The one for FlyingBlind was done in three!! I admit that usually it takes a bit longer... It really only depends how it fits into my work-flow...
But anyway, I'm glad you like it! And thank you very much for the kiss! (now I really need a blushing smiley...) Too good my girlfriend doesn't check in here, hehe! ;D
As for the idea of putting characters into our strips... We've been thinking about that, and it will definitely happen some day! It's just that we haven't really decided yet which one. But a female pilot that gives Chuck a hard time is definitely a great idea! :D
@Steep: Haha... a chicken leg?!? No way, that's too macabre!! But on the other hand, if I remember it right, the Duck family (Donald & co) also eats turkey at Christmas...
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Post by: SteepTurn on June 05, 2006, 11:56:33 AM
@Steep: Haha... a chicken leg?!? No way, that's too macabre!! But on the other hand, if I remember it right, the Duck family (Donald & co) also eats turkey at Christmas...
no worries.. it was only to say that I love eating... and cooking!! That's why my shape is similar to Hans' ;)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: happylanding on June 05, 2006, 12:21:56 PM
Hey! I won't let that stand here! Accusing ME of sexism!! Me! :'(
Your avatar took 5 days. The one for FlyingBlind was done in three!! I admit that usually it takes a bit longer... It really only depends how it fits into my work-flow...
But anyway, I'm glad you like it! And thank you very much for the kiss! (now I really need a blushing smiley...) Too good my girlfriend doesn't check in here, hehe! ;D
As for the idea of putting characters into our strips... We've been thinking about that, and it will definitely happen some day! It's just that we haven't really decided yet which one. But a female pilot that gives Chuck a hard time is definitely a great idea! :D
@Steep: Haha... a chicken leg?!? No way, that's too macabre!! But on the other hand, if I remember it right, the Duck family (Donald & co) also eats turkey at Christmas...
Stef, I hope I did not hurt, it was just a joke, actually! But if I did, I delete the message........ :) |:)\
That’s the habit of frequenting almost exclusively friends male or doing things that women usually don’t (let’s say I never took a cooking or sewing lesson or an aerobic course, instead did muay thai boxe, off road, shooting and things alike!!!). I (almost, yes, almost) never found a different treatment (surely no discrimination), when I was used about hearing other women saying: “I could never do that. I would be the only woman….and you're surely being discriminated”…....
And yes, if my memory is sound, donald duck did eat the turkey.........
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Stef on June 05, 2006, 01:30:02 PM
Stef, I hope I did not hurt, it was just a joke, actually! But if I did, I delete the message........ :) |:)\
No, I was just kidding! ;) I'm not hurt so easily!
Okay, then!! I was not sure, I sometimes have the idea that maybe a joke or some humor get lost in translation! :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Mike on June 05, 2006, 09:30:44 PM
You guys sure are right about this forum being addicting though.
In the beginning I thought we will have this for everybody to chat and I'll stop by here or there to see what's going on and now, several hudered posts later, I keep trying to find computers and chance I get while I am on the road just to keep checking in and see what the other chickens are up to now..... 8)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: happylanding on June 06, 2006, 09:09:32 AM
You guys sure are right about this forum being addicting though.
In the beginning I thought we will have this for everybody to chat and I'll stop by here or there to see what's going on and now, several hudered posts later, I keep trying to find computers and chance I get while I am on the road just to keep checking in and see what the other chickens are up to now..... 8)
I can easily see your point of view.......I check the page every now and then!! :) :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: chuckar101 on June 07, 2006, 04:18:34 AM
It is very addicting. I never really have a chance to get on a computer at work so when I get a day off I'm on the computer checking in.
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: fireflyr on June 07, 2006, 08:15:15 AM
You guys sure are right about this forum being addicting though.
In the beginning I thought we will have this for everybody to chat and I'll stop by here or there to see what's going on and now, several hudered posts later, I keep trying to find computers and chance I get while I am on the road just to keep checking in and see what the other chickens are up to now..... 8)
I can easily see your point of view.......I check the page every now and then!! :) :)
Honey, if 11 posts per day is "checking the page every now and then" , I'd love to see what you call "freqently"! :o :D
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: happylanding on June 07, 2006, 10:23:22 AM
You guys sure are right about this forum being addicting though.
In the beginning I thought we will have this for everybody to chat and I'll stop by here or there to see what's going on and now, several hudered posts later, I keep trying to find computers and chance I get while I am on the road just to keep checking in and see what the other chickens are up to now..... 8)
I can easily see your point of view.......I check the page every now and then!! :) :)
Honey, if 11 posts per day is "checking the page every now and then" , I'd love to see what you call "freqently"! :o :D
Uh oh!! Well, I presume you're right........... Do you wonder why I have headphones on my avatar?!?!?!? ;) ;) A keyboard would have been more difficult to relate to flight! :) :)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: SteepTurn on June 07, 2006, 10:29:18 AM
Well, since you said you love eating and asked for a mixture of Hans and Telly Savallas, you brought this one on yourself, Steep!! Hope you like it!
Hy Stef!!
Great work!! That's really cool!!! Thanks a lot!!! (Sorry, no kisses from my side ;))
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Oddball on January 27, 2008, 08:09:38 PM
errr stef/mike was going through this and was wondering if you could do a avatar for me if you are still taking requests? i like hedgehogs so could you do a crossed eyed hedgehog mechanic with a learners plate round his neck (red L on a white background) holding a spanner? , we have L plates for our learner drivers so you can avoid them at all costs dont know if any other countries have the same thing. but any other animal or bird thats easy for you to draw will be fine.
Thank you ::bow:: ::bow::, Ian
P.S even tho im a poor mechanical student when my next uni funds comes in i will buy many things from your excellent shop (is this enough grovelling yet?)
Title: Re: Avatar request..
Post by: Fabo on January 27, 2008, 08:13:47 PM
Well if you are so open with it... me wants tooo! ::wave:: ;D
