~AVATAR CONTEST ~24th Sep - 1st Oct

**Mermaid** · 09-23-2009, 03:35 PM

Welcome to the Avatar Contest for the Week ending 1st Oct. . We've just had talk like a Pirate Day and what Mermaid doesn't love a man of the sea?
Show me your Pirates people ARRRRR!!

The week's theme is Pirates.

The usual rules apply:

No suggestions

If you dibs and don't change your avatar in 24 hours the dibs is released (agent Helix Rule).

Voting begins at 12:01 AM Pacific time on Thursday and ends 11:59 PM Thursday.

Votes will be tallied by the first person to feel like it.

in the event of a tie, the next vote decides it.

**GozertheGozarian** · 09-23-2009, 03:36 PM

Dibs on the Dread Pirate Roberts.

**Donald M.** · 09-23-2009, 03:37 PM

Dibs on the Jolly Roger.

**GozertheGozarian** · 09-23-2009, 03:46 PM

Originally Posted by Donald M.

Dibs on the Jolly Roger.

Damn, I was going to undibs and take the kitty and crossbones from La Pucelle, but it's way too similar.

**Mermaid** · 09-23-2009, 03:48 PM

I better hurry up and look for one.....you guys are fast!

**Ben Morgan** · 09-23-2009, 03:49 PM

Yar! I'm in with Steve the pirate

**Donald M.** · 09-23-2009, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by GozertheGozarian

Damn, I was going to undibs and take the kitty and crossbones from La Pucelle, but it's way too similar.

Sorry.

As promised, in with the Jolly Roger, or to be more specific, the flags of famous real life pirates.

First up, the flag of Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts.

**Mermaid** · 09-23-2009, 04:27 PM

oh good one. I like that!

I thought i'd try googling for "famous woman pirates"

on page 1 of the search I got:

.....wasn't quite the look I was going for.....gotta love Google.

**Tages** · 09-23-2009, 04:38 PM

I'm in with Guybrush Threepwood, whose name is a combination of a Deluxe Paint file extension and a P.G. Wodehouse character. True story.

**StoneGold** · 09-23-2009, 04:47 PM

Dibs on Somali pirates. You know, the real ones who aren't very glamorous.

**jessecuster3** · 09-23-2009, 05:29 PM

I am in with music piracy, as represented by Napster, its semi-beginning.

**Chris N** · 09-23-2009, 05:57 PM

The most famous resident of my neighborhood is a bum known as Pirate. Walks around telling jokes and pirate stories, smokes cigarettes out of his missing eye, hoping people will buy him some food and booze. A neighborhood fixture for decades.

If I get around to making an avatar, it will be of him.

Here's a cool write-up about him I found.

**howyadoin** · 09-23-2009, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Chris Nowlin

The most famous resident of my neighborhood is a bum known as Pirate. Walks around telling jokes and pirate stories, smokes cigarettes out of his missing eye, hoping people will buy him some food and booze. A neighborhood fixture for decades.

If I get around to making an avatar, it will be of him.

Now there's no excuse: