Avatar Contest for the Week of 6/07/06

[Typo Lad]

You know, the easy part is winning. The hard part is thinking up a new contest.

I just want to start with a quick rundown on what the Av contest is for newer posters.

The person who wins the last contest picks a theme, the posters all make an avatar according that fits the theme. Come Tuesday of the next week, we vote on whose is the “best”. The only prize is that the winner gets to pick the next contest.

Please don’t suggest avatars. People like thinking stuff up themselves and it’s frowned upon. If you think of a neat Avatar idea, why not take it yourself?

That said… new theme!

Okay, I was debating a lot of ideas, some which were mildly offensive.

Screw that, I thought! Let’s go for full-on offensive!

So this weeks theme? Freudian Imagery.

Really.

Comics, cartoons, the media, even architecture is rife with it.

For example, and I’ll be using this one myself, take the Sword of Omens. It grows bigger and then a beam of light shoots out the tip. O…kay.

So yeah, Freud in general, Freudian Imagery in specific.

-Typo
Thinking outside Schrodinger’s Box

[Greg Hatcher]

Well, here's an unfortunate angle on Arnold the Barbarian. I was actually looking for {censored due to its continued availability as an avatar} but this was too good to pass up.

http://colinandmitch.com/review/Conand2.jpg

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Do you mean seemingly innocent images in comic books that have heavy sexual undertones?
Or Comic images of one Sigmung Freud?

[Expletive Deleted]

Not to step on Mike's toes, but dibs on The Hulk.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/expletivedeleted/0653.jpg

EDIT: And . . . I'm out. I'm too damn fickle for these things.

[Typo Lad]

Do you mean seemingly innocent images in comic books that have heavy sexual undertones?
Or Comic images of one Sigmung Freud?

I meant the former, but if you have the latter, go for it.

[thomas_catbiscuit]

here's my freudian slip

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j182/thomas_catbiscuit/FreudianSlippers.jpg


sorry a meant to say a pair of freudian slippers.....

[Spackling Compound]

This was voted most Freudian Panel ever....
Gosh, where was this Lois pic when we had "Jungle" as the theme??

http://diztopia.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/04082005b.jpg

[borateen]

Dibs on Aliens. Avatar to come as soon as I find one.

[Dreadstar]

Is it Freudian if it's intentionally meant to express Freudian?

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d108/Aliaswit/spaceballs.jpg


"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Let's see how well you handle it."

[JeffreyWKramer]

Dibs on that old "Rifleman" cover. Y'all know the one.

[Dennis K]

http://havanajournal.com/images/cigar_smoking_woman.jpg


dibs

[Spackling Compound]

Dibs on that old "Rifleman" cover. Y'all know the one.
Awwww...with all the Freudian mojo on your side, you go for the obvious shot.

I was kind of thinking you'd pull something REALLY nasty from your vault of arcana! (Ehh..that's Freudian, isn't it?)

[Dreadstar]

dibs

Oh, c'mon. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

[JeffreyWKramer]

Awwww...with all the Freudian mojo on your side, you go for the obvious shot.

I was kind of thinking you'd pull something REALLY nasty from your vault of arcana! (Ehh..that's Freudian, isn't it?)


Sometimes the famous and obvious is famous and obvious for a reason. It's hard to beat the Rifleman's log.

If it's any consolation, I thought of going with some of Giger's stuff, but decided not to simply because I've run into so many people over the years - including at least one who posts regularly on Comm - who tends to find Giger's imagery intensely disturbing.

[Typo Lad]

Yeah JWK, I'm kinda shocked you went for the easy one.

[Dennis K]

Oh, c'mon. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...


http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs-pix/clinton.jpg



http://www.american.edu/TED/images4/cigar.gif


http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/clinton/lewinskyclose.jpg

[Dreadstar]

Please don't tell me you didn't get the joke. I was waiting to post that quote since Morts created the thread.


EDIT: Nevermind. Clinton!

[jessecuster]

Its for planting White Asapragus I SWEAR !

My favorite bit is the Grandm'as Favorite !


http://www.punchandus.com/freudian/1005-freudian.jpg

[Spackling Compound]

Oh, c'mon. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
http://www.cigarsinternational.com/graphics/CS-IM-poster.jpg

[Typo Lad]

So much for my dream of an animated Clinton-Cig-Monica av.

Sigh,.

[Dreadstar]

BTW, Dennis... why would you change your av? Just enlarge the building on the left of your current one...

[Dennis K]

BTW, Dennis... why would you change your av? Just enlarge the building on the left of your current one...


That's just FN brilliant, I should have thought of that. Well done.

[borateen]

Well, it's not as clear as I'd like, and I wasn't able to incorporate all of the panels in the final avatar, but here it is. The head of an alien is already extremely phallic, then add in the constant drooling, and the crazy little mouth that jumps out, and, well...

Here's my original plan:

[Cei-U!]

I give you the f'ing queen of Freudian imagery: Ms. Georgia O'Keefe!

Cei-U!
Give it up for the little lady!

[Dreadstar]

I give you the f'ing queen of Freudian imagery: Ms. Georgia O'Keefe!

Cei-U!
Give it up for the little lady!

Thank god someone went for her. I was so torn in my choices.

[Dr. Hfuhruhurr]

OK, perhaps a little more obscure, but I remember reading an article on the web about the various AQUAMAN covers featuring the King of the Seven Seas getting sucked into various maws. This one stood out in my memory:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/04272332008.55.GIF


Aquaman can't stop shrinking and falling into the irresistible suction of the pink oval, as his wife and adopted son look on. (Please note the layout of the cover and where the pink ring is placed in relation to Mera.)

Nope. No fear of women there.

[glue]

It's hard to beat the Rifleman's log.



Well said. :D

I may take part in the avatar fun, but I'll need to think up something good.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

SHAZAM.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h125/Baqula/shazam.jpg
odd because Captain Marvel CAN FLY and he can manipulate lightning.

and why wouldn't he have a complete plane.

Maybe he's trying to over compensate for something.

[Typo Lad]

hah! I just read that issue and saved the cover for WWTT!

[StoneGold]

Just so we get this straight. So to speak.

Frame 1: She-Ra holding her sword out of her pubic area. That one is fairly self-explanatory.
http://ualbanyhillel.org/gadi/she-ra.jpg

Frame 2: She-Ra, grasping her turgid sword a little too lovingly. I thought about just animating her hand a bit in this shot, but thought better of it.

http://www.he-man.org/cartoon/cmotu-pop/powerpose5.jpg


And the last frame is the piece de resistance. He-Man hugging She-Ra, his twin sister, both of them firmly grasping their erect swords.
http://castlegrayskull.org/cgi-bin/pictureview?Image=srmemorable/hm-adora.jpg&Desc=Adora%20and%20He-man%20hugging%2E

EDIT: Sadly, the last one doesn't want to link right, so you'll have to click if you want to see it.

[Ta2grrl]

I give you the f'ing queen of Freudian imagery: Ms. Georgia O'Keefe!

Cei-U!
Give it up for the little lady!

Damn you...!!

I was so looking forward to posting labia lillies...

Sigh...

XXX

[Your Imaginary Pal]

googled golden age comics & phallus, that came up as the most out there one.
there i go revealing my secrets.....

[Mike Smash!]

I'm going with the old school Little Mermaid cover:

http://www.newsfollowup.com/id/images/little_mermaid.jpg

And the lovely tower in the background that caused a fervor and had this baby recalled...

http://www.bunnybass.com/e-zine/mimi/pictures/ebay_littlemermaid.jpg

If someone could help me make an animated avatar of this, I would be quite grateful...

[Mike Smash!]

Not to step on Mike's toes, but dibs on The Hulk.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/expletivedeleted/0653.jpg

EDIT: And . . . I'm out. I'm too damn fickle for these things.Yeah, you've got my vote.

[Ta2grrl]

Tada!!

My Freudian Slip...

...is a freudian slip...

:D

XXX

[Lubichev]

Deciding who to vote for on this one is going to be tough.

[Slam_Bradley]

Nothing makes a kid beg in Toys R' Us like a Sigmund Freud action figure.

Complete with Super Cigar Action.


http://www.vortexgifts.com/catalog/images/Freud-Action-L.jpg?osCsid=c93078b10c3d8c1d0c3acfd72a752b5b

[Typo Lad]

And to think I was worried that this topic was too limiting.

[JolietJake]

Here's one that outta be plenty disturbing:

ALF!!!

http://www.lycanon.org/staff/phaedrus/images/blog/20051031/alf.jpg

Apparently cats weren't the only thing he had a weird fetish for.

[JerrBear81]

Dibs on the boy holding the wooden log in front of the cowboy!

[Michael P]

Dibs on the boy holding the wooden log in front of the cowboy!
Kramer already called it.

[JerrBear81]

Kramer already called it.

He did? Awww man :(

I didn't see it at first.

[JerrBear81]

Edit: I changed my mind. Dibs on the woman holding a glass of Long Island Iced Tea from those Enzyte Commercials!

[Donald M.]

One of the most famous types of Freudian imagery is so-called "subliminal advertising" in which images, usually of a sexual nature, are hidden within an otherwise innocuous tableau, such as in this example:

[Bouncing Boy]

I'm continuing my Oz theme with the Wicked Witch of the West and her broomstick. You'll notice in the picture that not only is she holding her broomstick between her legs, but her pet flying monkey is trying to touch it. Now that's Freudian!

http://www.girlfriend.com.au/Images/Wicked-witch.jpg

[Citrus-Man]

The Sarlacc Pit from Return of the Jedi has always been a pretty good example of the ol' vagina dentata (http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/vagina%20dentata).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/GoSpacemanSpiff/sarlacc.jpg

[Michael P]

This is my rather obvious entry: Giant-Size Man-Thing, the most Freudian title for anything, ever. There are gay porn movies with more subtle and demure titles than this.

[Citrus-Man]

^ That's excellent. :D

[thehod]

Well you know what they say about men with loooong cars.

Yes, its Peter Perfect in the Penile Extensi... I mean Turbo Terrific.

[Gilda Dent]

What's that robot going to do with that poor innocent white girl?

We get racism, fear of foreign invaders, technology run amock, all in one image.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/GirlyGeek/403px-Forbidden_Planet_poster.jpg

Gilda

[Michael P]

What's that robot going to do with that poor innocent white girl?

We get racism, fear of foreign invaders, technology run amock, all in one image.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59/GirlyGeek/403px-Forbidden_Planet_poster.jpg

Gilda
Not to mention creepy paternalism, as the film was a recast of The Tempest.

[Winslow]

On top of Philadelphia's City Hall is a statue of William Penn - the Quaker that funded Philly and Pennsylvania.

When viewed from the Art Museum, he takes on a whole new appearance

*ahem*

http://www.princeton.edu/~yisun/album_files/PH_City.jpg

[Cei-U!]

The Sarlacc Pit from Return of the Jedi has always been a pretty good example of the ol' vagina dentata (http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/vagina%20dentata).


Good one. I was looking for pix of the Sarlacc when I thought of O'Keefe.

Cei-U!
I summon the first impulse!

[Archyduke]

Meh, back to Grant Morrison's Bulleteer I suppose.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

took me a while to see what was going on in your AV
now i see it very clear.
Drink coke, get some special attention.
WOW.

[StoneGold]

took me a while to see what was going on in your AV
now i see it very clear.
Drink coke, get some special attention.
WOW.
Hell, that's nothing. Pepsi has a famous sports drink where the bottle itself is shaped like a circumsized penis. I won't mention which one, since I don't want to pull a J-Dog. But follow the clues, you'll figure it out.

[Citrus-Man]

Good one. I was looking for pix of the Sarlacc when I thought of O'Keefe.

That's funny--I thought of O'Keefe, and when she was taken, I thought of the Sarlacc. :D

[Your Imaginary Pal]

I'm going with the old school Little Mermaid cover:

http://www.newsfollowup.com/id/images/little_mermaid.jpg

And the lovely tower in the background that caused a fervor and had this baby recalled...

http://www.bunnybass.com/e-zine/mimi/pictures/ebay_littlemermaid.jpg

If someone could help me make an animated avatar of this, I would be quite grateful...

hope this does the job.

[Gilda Dent]

Dang it. I already did mine, and thought of a better one.

Ah, well, live and . . . hey, pie.

Gilda

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Smoking is considered by many a wounded feminist who doesn't smoke to be a phallic statement.

When really, it just looks cool.

[Night]

Was going to sit this one out... not fan of penises which I knew was where it was going to go.

However, my entry is on the far fetched ideas that people come up with to try to put Freudian ideas on things.... most recently brought to light.... again.... is Da Vinci's Last supper. http://fits.depauw.edu/aharris/Courses/ArtH132/galleries/images/fullsize/fs_da_Vinci_Last_Supper_cleaned.jpgWhere some have suggested that the spacing of Jesus and the person to his right makes am intentional V shape which has been suggested is a vagina or a cup for sacrificial wine.

Note however that the sides then, are not the typical wine goblet used in the time, but of a glass made more famous by the Vodka Martini. http://hyl.edu.hel.fi/~petri/petri/kaikkiatk/oppilastoitaysitkaksi/bond/images/martini.jpg
Which suggests that Jesus was really a British spy, (which makes all the BBC specials of Jesus with an Anglican look and British Accent more plausible) and that the figure to his right leaning away from him must have been a KGB agent conspiring with Judas to have Jesus killed. (the 00 agents had a knack for getting themselves killed)

Christ, Jesus Christ
Note: the statements on this thread do not represent my true faith and should not be taken anymore serious than the Da Vinci Code

[SPAfreak]

I'm in with the most phallic building in DC: the Washington Monument. We loved George so much that we built a giant stone penis for the guy.

[Night]

Tuesday, time to vote

thomas_catbiscuit and the freudian slippers

[JeffreyWKramer]

Gotta go with Dreadstar, as STAR WARS embodies not only the phallic imagery but also the oedipal issues.

That's a Freudian two-fer!

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Going with the more subliminal Ice that Keeps the Coc... I mean Coke can so cool.
DonaldM, Coke is it!!!

[Spackling Compound]

Citrus Man wins my vote this week. In the 80x80 form, the Sarlaac pit actually looks like what he says it looks like...almost not work safe.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Citrus Man wins my vote this week. In the 80x80 form, the Sarlaac pit actually looks like what he says it looks like...almost not work safe.

I can picture soomeone trying to convince their boss that it isnt smut.
"But if you look closer you see that it's actually not a vagina at all, vaginas don't have sharp teeth...."

[thomas_catbiscuit]

Tuesday, time to vote

thomas_catbiscuit and the freudian slippers

cheers mate you've just broke me in (compo wise :D )

i vote for joiletjake and alf getting some seal lovin'

[Dr. Hfuhruhurr]

Lots of good entries: Typo, Dread, Doc Kramer, Slam, but I'm going to go with thomas catbiscuit's Freudian slippers because they are darn punny.

[Cei-U!]

I'm also a sucker for puns. thomas catbiscuit

Cei-U!
I summon the laurel wreath!

[Gilda Dent]

I'm a gunna vote fer Citrus Man. That is one scary looking orifice.

Gilda

[Winslow]

Joliet Jake's alf cracks me up, so I'm voting for him.

[Spackling Compound]

vaginas don't have sharp teeth...."
Crap.
25 years of fear-based celibacy all for nothing.

[Michael P]

thomas catbiscuit. Those slippers are just too cute.

[Dennis K]

One vote for Michael Pullman's Giant Sized Man-Thing.

[Citrus-Man]

My vote goes to Michael Pullmann. The idea was funny enough, but it was his title that put it in his favor.

[Typo Lad]

Michael Pullmann it is!

I'm sad no-one picked Gigantor the Space Age Robot. He "expands at your command".

And what, no Cosmic Rod? I was going to take it but figured someone else was sure to think of it.

It's basically a Power Dildo.

[Spackling Compound]

Michael Pullmann it is!

I'm sad no-one picked Gigantor the Space Age Robot. He "expands at your command".

And what, no Cosmic Rod? I was going to take it but figured someone else was sure to think of it.

It's basically a Power Dildo.

It would take Kramer to help seperate "Freudian" from "innuendo" if there is a separation.

[Bouncing Boy]

I have to vote for thomas_catbiscut's Freudian Slippers. Those are the bomb, I want a pair of those.

[Gilda Dent]

About ten minutes after I did mine, I remembered this and I've been kicking myself ever since:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8178/wf7g.jpg

I'm surprised nobody used it.

Gilda

[Slam_Bradley]

I have to vote for Dennis K.

[Donald M.]

Another vote here for Michael Pullman and his Giant Size Man-Thing.

[Lex]

I'm voting for Michael Pullman.And what, no Cosmic Rod? I was going to take it but figured someone else was sure to think of it.As I was reading this week's contest today, that came to mind. It would've been hilarious to find a picture of Stargirl riding the Cosmic Rod she got from Starman.

(Wait, is it alright to talk about unused ideas on Tuesday?)

[Ta2grrl]

I'm in with Citrus Man...

XXX

[Dreadstar]

I went with the truly Freudian imagery slip-up and it's obviously Jeffrey Kramer's log.

I mean.. . .

...shit.

[JerrBear81]

About ten minutes after I did mine, I remembered this and I've been kicking myself ever since:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8178/wf7g.jpg

I'm surprised nobody used it.

Gilda

I was about to, but...

1. I remembered this icon.

2. The comic didn't shrink down nicely.

[JerrBear81]

Jeffrey Kramer

[JolietJake]

JeffreyWKramer's Rifleman cover gets my vote. It's not just the log appearing to protrude from the Rifleman's crotch but notice the kid's sly upward glance .... uber creepy!

[Bouncing Boy]

By my count, tied for last place with one vote each are Dreadstar, Donald M and Dennis K

Next with two votes is Joliet Jake

Tied for Second place are Citrus Man and Jeffrey Kramer

And tied for first are Thomas Catbiscut's Freudian Slippers and Michael Pullman's Giant Sized Man Thing...the next vote will break the tie.

[thehod]

Then it's definitely got to be Mr Catbiscuit's Freudian slippers.

Now if he could get me a Nietzsche bathrobe, the outfit would be complete.

[borateen]

By my count, tied for last place with one vote each are Dreadstar, Donald M and Dennis K

Wouldn't the people who didn't get any votes be the ones tied for last place?

[thomas_catbiscuit]

is it all over then? have i won? do i need to start a new one?

[Winslow]

is it all over then? have i won? do i need to start a new one?

Looks like it to me.