Always keen to bring culture and class to the forum, I thought I’d instigate the First Annual Chiff & Fipple Avatar Gurning Competition. For those who are not aware, Gurning is the ancient British art of placing a horse’s collar around your neck and making a face like the other end of a horse. This stuff is taken pretty seriously in some parts of the UK. 
Traditionally the winner was probably burnt at the stake as a witch, but I thought in this case the winner could achieve the right to use the letters UCAG (Undisputed Champion of Avatar Gurning) after their name in all CHiff & Fipple postings for one year.
To the left is my effort (no that’s not how I normally look, honest!)
Come and have a go if you think you’re ugly enough!
← Me.
Gary - you look positively beautiful, you’ll have to do better than that!
Mark, just in case that avatar doesn’t show the whole photo I want your assurance, here and now, that we will never see the rest of it. It puts me too much in mind of our ‘seat up/seat down’ discussion. 
I don’t have a horse collar…
A toilet seat makes a good substitute. Please remember to remove it from the toilet before use.
Having now studied some of the great names in gurning, Tommy Mattinson, Peter Jackman, etc., I believe I may have to work on it.
Despite the risk of offending an entire country of nice folks…
you’re all looneys.
(Although, it’s good to know what that avatar is about, perrins)
Sigh… I was about to post the hands-down winner for an avatar resembling the south end of a north-bound horse, but then I tremembered I’d be jumped on for turning this into a political discussion, so I won’t.
PS… but his initials are KR
No but you normal face does show much gurning promise - have a go!
Nanohedron does not gurn.
Could’ve fooled me…
Thanks for the public service announcement.
Do Nanhedron’s have a face? (“A fusion protein therefore carries two parts, each with a strong tendency to associate with other copies of itself. As a consequence of this design, many identical copies of the fusion protein self assemble into a highly symmetric object or extended material we call a protein nanohedron or a protein nanohedral material”.)
Jsluder is definitely in the lead so far.
Not exactly gurning I think, but Fatso the big-arsed wombat is just about to receive an anal probe.
A-HA.
Wombles! What’s up with the avatar? Is that really you?
The gent on the left really is Fatso. No that isn’t me, but we’re related. The funny little man on the right is H.G. Nelson (aka, Greg Pickhaver) and part of the comedy duo, Roy and H.G. Fatso was their mascot on a show called The Dream which was a satire on sports commentary that ran during the Sydney Olympics.
The Dream was hilarious. Amongst many running gags, they’d do commentary on sports that really get little coverage and also some that get a little too much coverage. So weightlifting and Greco-Roman wrestling got well-covered. When commenting on weightlifting, they’d talk as though every failure to make a lift was due to the contestant forgetting what to do next. They invented a rather racy vocabulary all their own for gymnastics. Certain moves got to be known as the battered sav, the ‘hello boys’ and the ‘honey, I’m home’. I’ll leave it to your imaginations to guess which. 
I can gurn without even trying.
mine is coming up in just a second! this is a challenge!
If there is ever an award for the longest time spent in choosing an avatar, Wombat will be a clear winner
Slan,
D.
Amar, did you have that photo taken while you were getting you tattoo? You look a bit pink in the face…