Post Your Gerbil Photos ..... aka help me pick MY new Avatar

[mattograph]

That's right folks. The title fairy has descended on my like Bruno at an awards show, except I'm not sure TF was wearing a thong.....

Anyhow, I need a new avatar to go with my title. Thats where YOU come in! Show me your rodents, folks. And if I select YOUR submission, you will be forever immortalized in my signature as being that ONE photographer who was best able to capture my squeaky shifty little spirit.

Act now, as us little kangaroo wannabees aren't known for our life span!!!

[Stealthy Ninja]

Crop this a bit and you can use it for an avatar dude:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2709543246_e19e745b00_o.png

[mattograph]

Hey, my first entrant!!!

Is he dead?

[Stealthy Ninja]

No, just pretending. Seriously, he was chanced out of a shop by some woman, and the little dude lay down on his back and pretended to be dead. This was shot after he 1/2 turned himself over...

I don't know why I'm saying he, a sneaky rat could just as easily be female. ;)

[harroz]

nope, he's just too full to move after eating all of the chinese food...

probably got the hiccups too ;)

[mattograph]

sneaky ..... or Stealthy?

Can't believe your gonna make me crop him.

[S.Horton]

Avatar size:
http://midnightblue.smugmug.com/photos/185789189_3THVP-Th.jpg

Photo - And this one was alive, but his guts burst from his belly one day, then he died. May you fair better.

http://midnightblue.smugmug.com/photos/185789189_3THVP-L.jpg

[mattograph]

Sams the winner thus far.

He even provided me with the edit.

What a guy!

[Stealthy Ninja]

Added some with helium canisters ;)

[S.Horton]

I dunno, Ninja has a gas-powered version......... looks great!

[mattograph]

Getting better all the time!!!!

[mattograph]

Although a little harder to explain......

[S.Horton]

Most excellent.

I still don't know how you got that title.

[mattograph]

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=8042689&postcount=101

[Stealthy Ninja]

This one might be slightly better (softened the right edge a bit)

[skygod44]

That's right folks. The title fairy has descended on my like Bruno at an awards show, except I'm not sure TF was wearing a thong.....
Act now, as us little kangaroo wannabees aren't known for our life span!!!
That just makes me wanna cry....poor little gerbils.

Although if you're simultaneously saying you want to be a gerbil in a thong, I go back to my previous comment in that we should send the nice men around to your place with one of those lovely, big, "double-arm-wrap-around-the-back-attached-with-buckles" jackets for you, pronto!

[skygod44]

Hey Ty,

I love your new efforts to find an Avatar more befitting to your title, and despite never having seen your lovely mug, I somehow feel my humble offering shows a little dude who could have a character closer to yours than submissions so far...?

[Saphire]

Here is a photo of a Bank vole

[mattograph]

I am fairly certain I am going to have to rotate these on a weekly basis.

Now off to craigslist to find me a furry costume -- then the transition will be complete!

[Saphire]

Another two.
The first one is of a Rat that came to visit you get a rough idea on its size by the stones they are 1 inch in size. Second photo of another Bank vole.

[mattograph]

Are these pets or neighbors? :)

[Saphire]

LOL! No they are not pets, they are wild and running around my garden in the evening I live in a Rural area.

[S.Horton]

Here's a potential component:
http://midnightblue.smugmug.com/photos/431431256_wXT8H-L.jpg

Small:
http://midnightblue.smugmug.com/photos/431431256_wXT8H-Ti.jpg

[mattograph]

I'm actually waiting for the duct tape photos......

[skygod44]

I am fairly certain I am going to have to rotate these on a weekly basis...
That's actually a good idea. It would certainly add to the whole "feeling like a gerbil" concept, and could even allow you to feel like a wider selection of our little furry (or non-furry!) woodland friends.
Timid Toad, Reckless-Rat, Artful-Owl and Batty-Bat all spring to mind immediately!
Another two.
The first one is of a Rat that came to visit you get a rough idea on its size by the stones they are 1 inch in size. Second photo of another Bank vole.
Staffs?!?!? Excellent county! Used to take my ol' Golden Retriever out to The Ridings regularly thereabouts.....ho hum.
Here's a potential component:
http://midnightblue.smugmug.com/photos/431431256_wXT8H-L.jpg

Sam, what the &#&#&# is that? Don't tell me it's bog-roll! If so, you're spoiling your ar$e! Get thee down to Walmart for some coarse-grade sandpaper! That'll sort the men from the boys!
:eek:

[Stealthy Ninja]

Sam, what the &#&#&# is that? Don't tell me it's bog-roll! If so, you're spoiling your ar$e! Get thee down to Walmart for some coarse-grade sandpaper! That'll sort the men from the boys!
:eek:

If you like sandpaper "down-the-back-end", I wonder how much of a man you are dude. :confused:

[skygod44]

If you like sandpaper "down-the-back-end", I wonder how much of a man you are dude. :confused:

Are you joking?! Do I seem as daft as I look?
[Don't answer that - it's a rhetorical question!]

As you well know, the Skygod Residence has a state-of-the-art Toto Toiletta - it gently warms while blowing refreshing scent around the room. It washes, it rinses, it pulsates and it can even raise and lower the seat!!!
:D:D:D:D:D

[Stealthy Ninja]

pulsates?!... I still have the same question....


:lol:

A toilet is just a library with a cold seat.

[skygod44]

pulsates?!
Ours just "pulsates" the water-jet, though I understand some do the seat as well.

A toilet is just a library with a cold seat.
Not in our home! Though Missus Skygod likes the seat way too hot for me!
Reflecting for a moment on that, if my Dad had had our loo when I was growing up, I doubt we'd have seen him at all....
Now there's a man who loves reading over a pile of human excrement!
:confused:

[Stealthy Ninja]

Ours just "pulsates" the water-jet, though I understand some do the seat as well.

Not in our home! Though Missus Skygod likes the seat way too hot for me!
Reflecting for a moment on that, if my Dad had had our loo when I was growing up, I doubt we'd have seen him at all....
Now there's a man who loves reading over a pile of human excrement!
:confused:

Easier to read when your relaxed. Releases alpha waves or something like that.