explain your avatars

[vtmarik]

It's Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in time and space, built for the sole purpose of figuring out the answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, The Universe, And Everything.

It was so amazingly intelligent that before its data banks had been connected up, it started from first principles like "I think, therefore I am" and had correctly deduced the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone could shut it off.

--Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide, Fit the Fourth

Finally, seven and a half million years after the initial program was put into motion the computer announced that the answer to The Ultimate Question was 42. Deep Thought made it clear that a second computer had to be built in order to find out what the Question really was. This computer was so massive that it was very often mistaken for a planet (especially by the ape-descended life forms covering its surface) and was called "The Earth." However, at the critical moment of readout, the earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.


-- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide, Fit the Fifth

[Syzygy]

I like astrology, my nickname relates to astrology and my avatar relates to my nickname. Simple as that.

[static_ice]

hey incandeza I saw the intro!
It was cool with the traffic effect in the background but I why is it deeply unsettling? because everyone is laughing for no reason? maybe the youtube screen was choppy.

[Ruben Cassar]

My avatar is Augustus Caesar, the first and most important emperor of the Roman Empire.

[RAMB0.36]

it is rambo daaa and i am prety sher that it is form ramboII but i am not sher

[CrazyAnglican]

Because......um.....I've lost my marbles?

[hecter]

It's from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's the awsome french dude, and I thought it was fitting since I am from french decent, and the guy in the movie is freakin awsome. My signature is one of his lines.

[Nobunaga]

... In a nationwide survey held last year (in Japan) a million people were asked, "What single person in history most embodied the spirit of Japan"?

... The winner was Oda Nobunaga, a 16th Century warlord who carved an empire out of a land covered by literally hundreds of petty kingdoms.

... He was the original unifier of Japan but was assassinated before he could finish the job. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (who had him assassinated) took over and built on what Nobunaga had accomplished, then finally Tokugawa finished the job in 1601.

... Nobunaga was highly intelligent, cunning, and as savage as they come. A perfect combination for the times. He would lay siege to castles and round up everybody from the surrounding villages (as that's where the defenders had their women and children) and crucify them within sight of the castle... to lower enemy morale. It always worked. He was also the first to employ an organized use of rifles in battle (in Japan).

... What has this to do with me? Nothing really. I just always loved this guy - a real historical stand-out.