The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
If nothing else, you made me check out what 'marooned' means.
What do Avatars mean to you?
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Perfection
The Great Head.
My new avatar isn't very symbolic, I blame CivCube 
Giotto
Eagle
The G is the first letter of my screen name! Also, I am a G. Also, It has a lot of bling bling because I do too. I'm iced out.
CurtSibling
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We both know the West side is the best side, etc...etc...
SeleucusNicator
Diadoch
Well, it's actually a pun on something else.
I applied to several US colleges this year and the only one to accept me was the University of Chicago, which as "maroon" (a dark red) as its official color. Since I had no other choice than to go there, I decided "marooned", as in being trapped somewhere, was an appropriate description of my situation.
Paul Wolfowitz, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, got his PhD at Chicago, so I decided he would be appropriate both with my situation and my earlier use of Defense Department officials as avatars.
Giotto
Eagle
U of Chicago is a very good school though isn't it? Most people would love to be "marooned" there! 
SeleucusNicator
Diadoch
This is off-topic, but yes and no. On one hand, it has more Nobel Prize winners (74 or 75 since it was founded) than all but a few countries and more than any other institution in the United States, and most likely the world, and it has the best departments of Political Science and Linguistics (the two I plan on majoring in) in the United States.
However, it has no reputation with the common "man on the street" like some other places do. You rarely hear about it.
I am currently looking for a better Wolfowitz picture. I'd prefer one where he is pointing forward, but also one where he is larger and more prominent.
The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
The problem with you is that you think too coherently.
Amusingly, if you've got the appropriate kind of humour, the first translation of 'marooned' I found was "having been coloured dark red". It didn't seem to make sense, so I searched some more and found the "trapped" one.
nonconformist
Miserable
My avatar reflects my name and mood.
Firstly, for the last week or so, I feel very anti-capitalist and anti globalisation.
Also, my name is nonconformist. Therefore I do not conform. Nor do rebels. Who better to display rebels than Che Guevaera?
Firstly, for the last week or so, I feel very anti-capitalist and anti globalisation.
Also, my name is nonconformist. Therefore I do not conform. Nor do rebels. Who better to display rebels than Che Guevaera?
Archer 007
Rebirth
Where else did you apply and what was your transcript like (Im wondering since I am soon to enter the college hunt myself)?
Archer 007
Rebirth
I'm planning on majoring in political science also. Are you planning on going to law school, or to get a PhD in the field?
CurtSibling
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I still champion Skull-faced Luftwaffe zombies - And I always will! 
KaNick
Deity
Vash the Stampede.
Perfection
The Great Head.
IIRC, zombies require decayed flesh. It is a apparet that your avatar is instead a reanimated skeleton.Originally posted by CurtSibling
I still champion Skull-faced Luftwaffe zombies - And I always will!
Still cool though!
CurtSibling
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Perhaps just his head is bereft of corprus skin?
You will never know!
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
That's Vash? Huh. I never would have realized unless you told me.
SeleucusNicator
Diadoch
Both, if all goes well.
That'll make it time for the return of the Roger B. Taney avatar.
Hamlet
Manic Depressive
I've nearly finished my BA in Politics, thank god.
CurtSibling
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My BA in animation draws to close also, thank...erm...Darwin!
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