<----What does your avatar represent?

[Kalamazoo]

Many of them are straightforward (mine is a new MB F22 Tomcat arriving before the end of the month).

Some are not as easy to figure out, many are intriguing.

So...what is the meaning behind your avatar?

[jk13]

I'm Polish and one of the things I do is play hockey. It's one of their old national team jerseys.

[oldjeep]

Just me at Nationals during the other ski season.

[bandStrider]

Just me at Nationals during the other ski season.

Pretty sue I've seen this avatar on the NASTAR website as well...........

[REHinH20]

My boat waiting (on glass) for me to come play! I know mine wasn't one of the hard to figure out ones, but wanted to be included! lol

[Bill_AirJunky]

Go BIG or go home!

[nyryan2001]

what I want to look like and do when I retire in 5-10yrs

[Bawshogg]

LOL, I prefer you take a guess.

[oldjeep]

Pretty sue I've seen this avatar on the NASTAR website as well...........

Seems pretty likely

[Raimie]

My first boat on Dale Hallow Lake in 2006. The sun was coming up and burning off the dew. I had 22 stiches in my leg from a intoxicated slide incident from the night before, so there would be no riding for me that morning, but plenty of driving...

This is my favorite picture of her. Trying to sell the boat now... going to be sad when I see it go, but relief at the same time. When it warms up, I hope to get a nice shot of my new T22 to replace it with.

[LS-One]

My favorite president.

Teddy ran for a second term as an independent. While giving a speech, he was shot in the stomach. He waited until he was done with his speech to seek medical attention.

On October 14, 1912, an unemployed saloonkeeper shot former president and Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt outside a Milwaukee hotel. Rather than being rushed to the hospital, Roosevelt insisted on delivering his scheduled 90-minute speech. By slowing the bullet, those lengthy prepared remarks may actually have saved his life.

Theodore Roosevelt shortly before John Schrank made an attempt on his life. (Library of Congress)

Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell.

“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot.”

Clearly, Roosevelt had buried the lede. The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet—there is where the bullet went through—and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”

[ebelizard]

I'm Polish and one of the things I do is play hockey. It's one of their old national team jerseys.

Good to see a fellow Polock on here, my mom is from there and both my dads parents are. Sorry for the hijack.

Mine is one taken in a Forward Area Refuel Point (FARP) in the aircraft. I've been flying blackhawks since 2012.

[Bawshogg]

Good to see a fellow Polock on here, my mom is from there and both my dads parents are. Sorry for the hijack.

Mine is one taken in a Forward Area Refuel Point (FARP) in the aircraft. I've been flying blackhawks since 2012.

Does your copter have and ejection seat?

[jk13]

Good to see a fellow Polock on here, my mom is from there and both my dads parents are. Sorry for the hijack.

Mine is one taken in a Forward Area Refuel Point (FARP) in the aircraft. I've been flying blackhawks since 2012.

Family has been here for a few generations, my Grandpa and my oldest Uncle are/were the last ones to speak the language, unfortunately.

Thank you for what you do!

[Hammertime]

Mine is two-fold, the obvious one is the C-130 gunship which I've seen in action first hand and the second one it that fact that Texas is still in a drought and needs some rain... a lot of rain to be specific.

[ebelizard]

Does your copter have and ejection seat?

I don't know if that's a serious question, but believe it or not I get that a lot. Unfortunately, it does not have an ejection seat. If something goes wrong, I'm riding that b!tch into the ground, so they train us pretty well at analyzing emergencies.

[Jimmypooh]

Me breathing fire. It represents fun with family and friends at the lake since it's been my annual 4th of July tradition since I got out of the circus. My Brother-in-Law suprised me with a poster sized picture he took a couple years back. He did a great job with the shot.

Edited May 16, 2014 by Jimmypooh

[Bawshogg]

Haha! No it was not a serious question. When I read that you were a Polish Heli pilot, I was immediately taken back to an elementary school joke about the polish helicopter built with and ejection seat. That's it.

[40oz]

Mine represents my hard work, dedication, saving and most of all FUN.

[Malibuzer]

Me breathing fire. It represents fun with family and friends at the lake since it's been my annual 4th of July tradition since I got out of the circus. My Brother-in-Law suprised me with a poster sized picture he took a couple years back. He did a great job with the shot.

Those pictures are awesome!

[longbeard]

My 9 year old son getting some air. Makes me smile.

[shawndoggy]

<--- blue Nevada skies, glass for miles, and the handle in my hand. nirvana.

[slobu]

Wow, somehow our boat on Shasta seems pretty wimpy after seeing jimmypooh breathing fire. Just hope my boys don't see that and get any ideas!

[Lance B. Johnson]

Cyclocross is huge in PDX. Some events draw over 1100 participants and I have raced in fields with over 200 people. CX has replaced boating as my favorite activity. I've raced MTB, road, crits, MTb short track and some track (alpenrose velodrome). Nothing is as fun as cx.

The atmosphere is what does it. No stodgy uptight roadies or the like cx is about racing in the mud and heckling anyone and everyone just 'cause. Beer after the race.

[Raimie]

I like this thread. Good idea OP