Member Photo Thread

[urs]

well, i'm impressed.

Colour me impressed, too.

The "unsure" smiley makes me feel confused about this post. But thank you both, regardless. I find is sort of oddly ironic that around the same time I'm graduating from college with my psych degree, my current career that I think(????) I want to leave is sort of starting to really take off. I feel as though it complicates the transition into a different phase of my life. Maybe it's not quite time for a new phase. I dunno.

[Jay]

I shall give one bit of advice on the youtube video.

Dont open it up with... "Hi Guyz".


AHHHHHHH!!  It is the classic girl talking on youtube opening!!

Say.  "Hello, this is Ursala" or something.  But not "Hi Guyz".

Maybe it is just my own pet peeve though, so feel free to ignore me.

Oh, and +1 to both you and TYG

[urs]

I shall give one bit of advice on the youtube video.

Dont open it up with... "Hi Guyz".


AHHHHHHH!!  It is the classic girl talking on youtube opening!!

Say.  "Hello, this is Ursala" or something.  But not "Hi Guyz".

Maybe it is just my own pet peeve though, so feel free to ignore me.

Oh, and +1 to both you and TYG

You know, it's funny you say that - I saw somewhere recently that "You guys" or "Hi guys" is a regional quirk - that a lot of other English dialects in other parts of the country don't consider it an appropriate form of greeting and/or just don't use it. But it's how most people address each other or groups of people round these parts, so just consider it part of my Midwestern charm. Plus...I AM a girl talking on Youtube! However, if I think of something better, I will start using it instead. Thanks for the feedback and +1!

[kevin]

try, "okay, s**theads. listen up."

i always open church committee meetings that way.

[Emily]

try, "okay, s**theads. listen up."

i always open church committee meetings that way.

That's how I address my husband. It's the only way to get him to answer me back.

[kevin]

Hes preadapted to quakerism

[Captain Luke]

Nice bridesmaid shoes!

Congrats HE

[Nam]

I'm bald!



And really ugly. (shivers)

-Nam

[Jezzebelle]

Baby Evolute is so grown up!!  grog!  love the top hat :)

Last Saturday at a Tea Party

[Gnu Ordure]

This photo was taken a few years ago in the Spider House at London Zoo, where I was assisting a colleague who was running a group-hypnotherapy treatment for people with arachnophobia, which consisted of a guided meditation in a lecture-hall followed by a visit to the Spider House to make friends with actual spiders.

I don't suffer from arachnophobia myself, so I was totally cool when my colleague gave me Harry the Tarantula to hold for a few moments. 

Do I look cool here?

Or is that casual smile merely a thin veneer of barely-suppressed terror?

You decide.

[Mr. Blackwell]

Good picture!


You look like you could be an actor but you do look like you are barely suppressing something...not terror....disgust?

[Gnu Ordure]

Good picture!

You look like you could be an actor

I could have been an actor. In fact, at many times in my life I have pretended to be an actor, and can indeed do a very fine impression of an actor, but as it happens I've never actually been an actor myself.

Meanwhile, here's a more recent photo of me, pretending to be me:



Do I look cool here, or is there still a thin veneer of barely-suppressed terror (of bass guitars rather than tarantulas, in this case)?

Hard to tell, behind the shades.





We should start a tribute band, MrB:

YY Bottom.

Or something like that...


@Mr. Blackwell

[Gilgamesh]

Do I look cool here, or is there still a thin veneer of barely-suppressed terror (of bass guitars rather than tarantulas, in this case)?

Gnu, you might be suppressing some terror but that beard sure isn't. You and Blackwell rock them well.

[Mr. Blackwell]

Do I look cool here, or is there still a thin veneer of barely-suppressed terror (of bass guitars rather than tarantulas, in this case)?

Hard to tell, behind the shades.

Yep. Definitely a cool dude.

We should start a tribute band, MrB:

YY Bottom.

Or something like that...

[Mr. Blackwell]

Gnu, you might be suppressing some terror but that beard sure isn't. You and Blackwell rock them well.

Thanks! 


Now lets see yours!

[Gnu Ordure]

The key is cheap sunglasses. (Look left at my avatar. Those were the cheapest photoshop shades I could buy at the time. But they do the trick).

MrB and I understand this basic truth, and everything depends thereon :



Or else it's stockings. Maybe stockings are the key. 

Luckily, ZZ Top have an opinion on the matter of stockings.

Because they have their finger... on the pulse... of topical issues.

(Warning to JWs or other fundamentalists; the next video contains images of semi-naked women which if you watched it would probably cause you to experience lust which would condemn you to hell. Just thought I'd mention it).

[kevin]

i have just located a recent self portait.

Spoiler

[close]

[Mr. Blackwell]

The key is cheap sunglasses. (Look left at my avatar. Those were the cheapest photoshop shades I could buy at the time. But they do the trick).

MrB and I understand this basic truth, and everything depends thereon :

Damn straight! Like a couple of soul brothers we are. Even these guys understand it.





Beards are an optional upgrade but the cheap sunglasses are necessary.

[Gilgamesh]

Now lets see yours!

Unfortunately I wasn't gifted with the same bearded genes as that dapper ape in my avatar, Mr. B. The longest my patchy facial hair has ever lasted was 3 weeks, maybe less.

[kevin]

it always looks worthless at first.

if you stick it out things improve.

[Mr. Blackwell]

it always looks worthless at first.

if you stick it out things improve.

I'm almost certain that you did not mean for that to be a double entendre....almost.

[kevin]

rumours of my zopbisticated sense oc humour are highly exagerated

[Mr. Blackwell]

rumours of my zopbisticated sense oc humour are highly exagerated

As are the rumors of your skinny thumbs. 


Listen, join the group...all you need to do is get yourself some cheap sunglasses!

[kevin]

[Gnu Ordure]

You're in.


All we need now is a manager.

And some music lessons.

[Jezzebelle]

I wanna play!



always wanted to be in a band!

[Gnu Ordure]

Cool.

To be honest, I was thinking that a band consisting of three old bearded guys would have a limited potential audience.

But a hot babe up front changes the demographic like, totally. We could probably crack college radio if we play our cards right.

[kevin]

that sounds like a winning formula to me

[Mr. Blackwell]

All we need now is a manager.

And some music lessons.

And some instruments and some sound equipment....Hell yeah! We're half way there! 

[Jezzebelle]