Do you have a story about your avatar?

My avatar is a dingo and my username, Warrigal, is the indigenous name for Australia's native dog. It announces me as an Australian and happens to be the club name I chose for myself many years ago when I was a youth leader. I have no indigenous ancestry.

Does it describe my personality? I think not. I am more like a wombat than a dingo and if I were to have a totem animal it would probably be a wombat. Wombats are more placid than snappy.

On another forum I have settled on the name Warri the Wombat, with a matching avatar.
 
I kind of like it when members show their real faces. So it's only fair to show mine to let you see what an old codger I am. Do you think I resemble Foggy Dewhurst?


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Just an old guy sitting on an old porch, Fedora and cane.
Maybe taking a Nap or just done in.

Choose it as a reminder about how things could end and to keep fighting.

The only thing missing from that picture is the Headphones I'll be wearing listening
to JAZZ, if I know what's going on around me or not!
 
This is easy. Just copy and paste from Wikipedia...
My Avatar at the time of this posting....
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"Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the lead character, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. After Segar died in 1938, Thimble Theatre was continued by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. It was formally renamed Popeye. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments on Sundays, written and drawn by R.K. Milholland. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.

In 1933, Max Fleischer adapted the Thimble Theatre characters into a series of Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Fleischer Studios, which later became Paramount's own Famous Studios, continued production through 1957. Cartoons produced during World War II included Allied propaganda, as was common among cartoons of the time. These cartoon shorts are now owned by Turner Entertainment and distributed by its sister company Warner Bros.

Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, video games, hundreds of advertisements, peripheral products ranging from spinach to candy cigarettes, and the 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams as Popeye.

Charles M. Schulz said, "I think Popeye was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor". In 2002, TV Guide ranked Popeye number 20 on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list."
 
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My current avatar is just my 75th birthday photo that I posted on Facebook. I usually post a selfie on each birthday but decided to do something different and let my son take the shot. I'm showing one eye here to keep with the One Eyed Diva theme.
 

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