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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aitch Eye" data-source="post: 1742541" data-attributes="member: 385">Actually, I keep encountering myself staring out from Ankh-Morpork Guard's avatar.To the extent that I always pick screen names and email addresses from terms in Cordwainer Smith stories, I suppose it must reflect something about me. I could deny that I'm the head of a millenia-old conspiracy of animal-derived humanoids, but it would never convince the conspiracy buffs. A few people have thought I'm just saying "Hi", which some probably think is stupid, but Manshonyagger probably wouldn't have impressed them either.As for the avatar, only insofar as it's somewhat awkwardly composed. It's from an illustration by Boris Dolgov for Clark Ashton Smith's "Quest of the Gozolba" in an old Weird Tales(see it <a href="http://eldritchdark.com/art/books/pulps/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>). I just thought it looked nice as well as being reasonably clear and unlikely to be confused with others. Though the leader of the Aitch Eye was a sort of bird-man, his head was fairly human, and it only vaguely entered into the decision.</blockquote>