In Which We Discuss Avatars and Custom User Titles IX

[gay_Aleks]

Well, you could always use a Pipboy avatar plus a boast almost no one will recognize.

 

[bhsup]

Just for a day, because Ziggy inspires me

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

That flag sure looks as if it has been used for love

I am your inspiration
I am your shining sun
Forgot most of the lyrics
About time I be gone

 

[JohannaK]

That flag reminds me that we have three classes left of our US History course and we are talking about Thomas Paine's Common Sense next week.

 

[Borachio]

Uns're Fahne flattert uns voran.
In die Zukunft ziehen wir Mann für Mann
Wir marschieren für Hitler
Durch Nacht und durch Not
Mit der Fahne der Jugend
Für Freiheit und Brot.
Uns're Fahne flattert uns voran,
Uns're Fahne ist die neue Zeit.
Und die Fahne führt uns in die Ewigkeit!
Ja die Fahne ist mehr als der Tod!

Our flag is fluttering in the front. In the future we march man for man. We march for Germany by night and by necessity, with the flag of the youth for freedom and bread. Our flag is fluttering in the front. Our flag is the new age. And the flag will lead us into eternity! Yes, the flag is more than death!

I don't trust flags much, these days.

 

[Domen]

I have a task for you guys.

Try to guess where (region the world) and when (approximately) did the guy from my new avatar live.

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Borachio:

Wir marschieren für Hitler

We march for Germany

Very accurate translation !!!

 

[Phrossack]

Well, you could always use a Pipboy avatar plus a boast almost no one will recognize.

It's the Vault Boy, and yes, 1st Recon is cool.

 

[Zack]

I have a task for you guys.

Try to guess where (region the world) and when (approximately) did the guy from my new avatar live.

Poland, Poland.

 

[Snerk]

Moar xmas avatars plz!

 

[warpus]

@bhsup

I love the American flag. Where's my citizenship, house, wife, and pet?

 

[bhsup]

This is America, warpus! Yiou want them? Bootstrap 'em!

 

[Cutlass]

@bhsup

I love the American flag. Where's my citizenship, house, wife, and pet?

Become and illegal alien and get yourself an anchor baby.

 

[Antilogic]

They like, don't even check the Canuckistani border.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I have a task for you guys.

Try to guess where (region the world) and when (approximately) did the guy from my new avatar live.

Poland.

On a more serios note, I'm guessing somewhere during ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom onward until the Greek conquest, depicting a Libyan or Bedouin.

 

[gay_Aleks]

His eyes are weird. He's like as if he came out of some meme.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I'd wager a lot of historical art is more meme-worthy than people realize.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, if you add iin some speech buhbles, it certainly could become a meme. There's even a photoplasty on Cracked that does that

 

[Borachio]

I have a task for you guys.

Try to guess where (region the world) and when (approximately) did the guy from my new avatar live.

Clearly, 20th century Poland. That's Lech Wałęsa.

Very accurate translation !!!

Well spotted. I noticed it too. And I wondered why they did that.

Maybe it's because he, like general de Gaulle did with France, identified himself with Germany.

Or maybe they thought no one would notice and they were trying to put distance between themselves, as former Hitler Youth members (of which there were a very great many), and Hitler himself.

 

[Domen]

Borachio - 20th century but AD, or BC ???

Cybrxkhan - no, he is not Libyan, not North African. But you are very close when it comes to time period.

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Well, OK - Bedouins were traveling to that region.

So he could possibly be a Bedouin (or a Proto-Bedouin). And you guessed the time right - ca. 1780 BC (in Egypt there was Middle Kingdom).

So congratulations Cybrxkhan, you won!

But the painting is from the ancient Near East, in present-day Syria, Mari (Tell Hariri), from the palace of king Shamshi-Adad I (or his son Yasmah-Adad):

http://www.territorioscuola.com/wik...ting_Sacrifice_ordinator_AO19825_mp3h9088.jpg

"The ordinator of the sacrifice. Wall painting from the state appartments of the Mari Palace":

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_painting_Sacrifice_ordinator_AO19825_mp3h9088.jpg

Here a larger version: http://www.lessingimages.com/viewimage.asp?i=08020427+&cr=23&cl=1

Yasmah-Adad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmah-Adad

Shamshi-Adad I: http://amazingbibletimeline.com/blog/shamshi-adad-i/

He's like as if he came out of some meme.

Out of ancient meme.

 

[bhsup]

Just for a day, because Ziggy inspires me

As promised, just a day. Back to Bishop.