OT - New Avatar for Old Savage

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:44 am

Well, it has been awhile since I've had avatars enabled, so I just saw Old Savage's avatar again.

Now, don't take this wrong, but it has always bothered me that there seems to be a price tag hanging from the brim of his hat a-la Minnie Pearl.

That's a real shame. I sat next to Old Savage at the Levergunner's Reunion and he's really quite a handsome guy. I can see why all the chicks dig him. The waitress almost dropped her tray while serving our table. Twice.

I think what we really need here is a nice profile shot, some backlighting, studio fill, etc. But until then, I went ahead and airbrushed his avatar a little to mellow out the background.

Before:

After:

Savage, what do you think?

Post by **Hobie** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:01 pm

I think he should post a photo of the women...

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:29 pm

Sorry Old Savage......but
I would rather see the women,
u gots to let us know your secret!

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:06 pm

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:27 pm

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:09 pm

Well first of all thanks on the women but there are a couple that are really mad at me over politics right now and another that is enjoying it but they are on the east coast so ...

On the Minnie Pearl issue - my wife said that too. It is actually the side of a clock that is on the bookcase. El Chivo thanks for your rework. I will have to look into an improvement.

Here is one with the clock and my youngest daughter.

or the clock and my wife,

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:19 pm

I always saw it as a "Minnie Pearl" tag too, but discretion being the better part of valor................................

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:30 pm

Or maybe the mysterious gal on the train - a psychologist friend I don't think Hobie has seen,

she can be fun at a party - or maybe just this one for a friendly high to all my friends here

Modoc ED · Post by **Modoc ED** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:37 pm

Who is the young man in the picture behind you in the Navy uniform?

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:39 pm

Or how about EL Chi - I leave the Minnie Pearl as a reminder that if I say something you don't like - don't take it tooooo seriously.

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:42 pm

Mo, that guy is my son - did seven tours on the USS Rhode Island - a ballistic sub. Good pursuit if you know any young men. Electrical work there - a steel company pursues these guys and good jobs available - he loves his.

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:28 pm

Who cares about Hobie?

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:03 pm

I know - ditch the 'Minie Pearl' one, and just post pics of the girls/women in your life...

You should never have a bad day as long as you have friends and family with smiles like those.

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:16 am

Well now I started messing with this and completely forgot how to do it once you get to edit avatar. And about all I managed to do was lose Minnie Pearl.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:39 am

AJMD429 wrote:I know - ditch the 'Minie Pearl' one, and just post pics of the girls/women in your life...
You should never have a bad day as long as you have friends and family with smiles like those.

+1

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:19 am

Savage,

you can right click on the pictures and download them to your computer, then reload.

Or you can load the "after" pic directly from here:

http://www.musicstudents.com/jonathan/hat2.jpg

(there's a slot in the "edit avatar" which says "upload from url", drop in the url and you're done)

Look, I realize I'm being a busybody so use your own judgment.

HATCHETTJACK · Post by **HATCHETTJACK** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:44 am

old savage ,you devil you

Post by **AmBraCol** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:53 am

Old Savage wrote:Well now I started messing with this and completely forgot how to do it once you get to edit avatar. And about all I managed to do was lose Minnie Pearl.

You need to have a copy of the pic you want on your computer. You can use PhotoBucket to edit the pic down to the right size (I think max size is something like 80X80 pixels) and save it to your hard drive. Then in the "Edit Avatar" section choose "browse" and find the pic on your hard drive.

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:50 am

El Chi - I did a picture revision using the fill command on what is the end of the clock which looks like the tag and the edge of the picture frame which looked like the string for the tag. This avoided the fuzziness that your method appears to me to have and left the Navy picture intact. What did you do with yours? Computer options

Here is the larger original I got it from.

CowboyTutt · Post by **CowboyTutt** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:29 am

Gads, that was too funny, El Chivo! Actually, I think Old Savage was watching a classic western and when the good guy had a "price on his head" he took it sort of literally for his avatar photo.

-Tutt

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:47 pm

Now here is avatar material for somebody

Santa's Elite Republican Guard!

Post by **AmBraCol** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:48 pm

NOW we're talkin'!

That's an 11mm Mauser, is it not? A lovely piece of field artillery indeed...

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:21 pm

That is CowboyTutt's Old 3120 and a beautiful piece it is. He shoots it at long range and does quite well with it. I think he might disclose his best loads - they have done quite a bit of work with it. I have seen it a number of times and he brought it to the So Cal Levergunners Reunion last year.

I believe that is the rifle in the small pics in his sig line.

CowboyTutt · Post by **CowboyTutt** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:16 pm

Santa's Elite Republican Guard!

Now that is too funny!

The 71/84 with a 485 grain bullet at 1175 fps is the "poor man's Sharps"! It shoots very well with its factory iron sights as set-up by the factory. Those crazy Germans really knew their stuff!

I hope to have an article on "What is Possible with the 71/84 Mauser" by May.

-Tutt

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:26 pm

Funny thing OS...that hat makes you look really conservative...yet those women make you look really hip...think if I were you I'd ditch the hat and pose only with the women

Ed

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:28 pm

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.... thanks Kansas Ed, I wanted to say that, but did not have the intestinal fortitude!

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:36 pm

It wasn't intestinal fortitude....it was 15 yr old Glenlivet....

Ed

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:41 pm

Thats even better!

CowboyTutt · Post by **CowboyTutt** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:46 pm

Funny thing OS...that hat makes you look really conservative...

OMG, you have no idea how true that statement is! Even Genghis Khan was not so far right!

-Tutt

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:47 pm

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:15 am

OK K Ed, twist my arm

- with my probate attorney in Dallas and a flowered shirt.

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:17 am

It just aint fair!

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:24 am

Or maybe you like Maui Delaney. Now I don't know her she was just a cooperative soul selling fishing trips. Have camera will travel. But Ganji may know her. This is right in front of his old office I believe. Say where has he been? Tough view he had - what a guy!

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:26 am

I have got to stop hanging around with broken down old cowboys!

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:32 am

Or Catalina, by the way, we eventually negotiated Harold's release. Depending on your age you may like Tarey on the left or her mother next to her. Cruise mates on the Monarch of the Seas. Californy ain't all bad - ready to come further west yet Mescy?

mescalero1 · Post by **mescalero1** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:38 am

I'll go with the mom

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:44 am

Oh stuff...I'm going to sell my Winchesters and buy Savages.....

Ed

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:50 am

No Ed, you need office software, from this gal. She how she can do business calls and do a picture to - multitasking. Women are so talented --- and they can shine so!

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:58 am

And a service announcement - if you need Blair Upper Cervical Chiropractic - Dr Hooper in Atlanta.

and of course we are in Dallas.

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:06 am

ROFLMAO......of course if you ever need an aircraft mechanic....

Ed

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:08 am

Whoa there is one I hadn't thought of - nice - just what is she up to there? Don't know airplanes.

Networking at its best.

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:12 am

Playing with her "baby"....sold it about 18 Mo. ago..to a pilot in the Confederate Air Force. She restored it herself over a span of about 12 years or so. Cessna 195...330 HP Jacobs L6MB...now she works on Hawker 4000 Jets. The 55 was mine, but I sold it to finance a '66 Lemans.

Ed

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:23 am

You have good taste all the way around. You would love the Road Kings Car Show at Santa Anita Race Track - usually around 400 cars. Second weekend in Oct usually. Coincides with my wife's birthday.

most of the cars they don't want you to touch but there are exceptions.

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:28 am

Nice hi-boy....yours? This is my money pit...hopefully will sell this year to finance a sail boat...that's me in the flannel shirt trying to keep up....

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:34 am

No but here is one my wife would like.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:36 am

Kansas Ed wrote:Playing with her "baby"....sold it about 18 Mo. ago..to a pilot in the Confederate Air Force. She restored it herself over a span of about 12 years or so. Cessna 195...330 HP Jacobs L6MB...now she works on Hawker 4000 Jets. The 55 was mine, but I sold it to finance a '66 Lemans.

Ed

Love those 195s! One of the most graceful looking planes ever built. Car ain't bad, either.

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:38 am

I hate to fly, but I dearly love the sound of a Jake!

As for the T-bird...I wish I could squeeze my 6'9" frame in one....

Ed

Jeeze...it's 12:40 and I'm supposed to work tomorrow....later guys...

BTW OS...one of my favorite destinations in the world is Famoso. Some like the California Hot Rod Reunion there in the fall, but I prefer the March Meet in the spring...the racing is awesome. Bakersfield is the King of Top Fuel.....

Ed

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:42 am

Ed this is the Abracabra - an America's cup yacht - that mast is 110 ft tall - for $100 they would take you out for 3 hrs in San Diego bay.

and, they will let you take the helm with 2500 sq ft of sail - fun!

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:46 am

Yep, my retirement is slated for a 45' sailboat in the Caribbean. Financed of course through the contents of my gun safe....I know sacrilege....now...for real...I'm off to bed this time...

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:53 am

Ed - let me know - might work out to meet you up there.