I find Dale’s current avatar highly disturbing:
I’m not sure why I find it so disturbing, but I do.
Anyone else have any nominees for disturbing avatar of the month?
Eric
I don’t like bradhurley’s:
I don’t understand it.
I’ve also never really understood dubhlinn’s:
…but it doesn’t really disturb me.
I hereby demand that Dapple brings back the best ever avatar on these boards.
Slan,
D.
I thought Dale’s avatar just before this one, I think, of that slick business man with a whistle was really freaky.
Someone has one of a moving eyeball. I’m sorry I can’t remember who. I feel like it is looking at me and I actually have to keep telling myself that it is not a real eye.
Cranberry, I’m afraid that you’ve had the one I would nominate, and it involved a bottle.
Still, there is that rather strange looking Padre…Father whoever it is.
Cran,
My avatar is a sculpture of the guy above,who used to sit on the original wooden bench and write stuff like this..
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin
“Erected to the Memory of Mrs. Dermot O’Brien”
O commemorate me where there is water,
Canal water preferably, so stilly
Greeny at the heart of summer, Brother
Commemorate me thus beautifully.
Where by a lock Niagariously roars
The falls for those who sit in the tremendous silence
Of mid-July. No one will speak in prose
Who finds his way to these Parnassian islands
A swan goes by head low with many apologies.
Fantastic light looks through the eyes of bridges
And look! a barge comes bringing from Athy
And other far-flung towns mythologies.
O commemorate me with no hero-courageous
Tomb–just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by.
And now for my avatar in all its glory…
Slan,
D. 
That hurt.
Now I see it. From the small avatar picture it looked like it was a person with a frog’s head.
No way!!!
I hereby demand that Dapple brings back the best ever avatar on these boards.
Is this what you’re looking for, dubhlinn?
Dapple, that is adorable and frightening at the same time.
Abso-f***in’- lutely 
The greatest avatar anywhere, anyplace, anytime.
Keep it up .
Slan,
D.
Does it come from a movie or something, or is it just random?
Cran…It’s a very young Bob Dylan …everybody knows that 
Slan,
D.
I love this one!!
This . . .
Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin
“Erected to the Memory of Mrs. Dermot O’Brien”O commemorate me where there is water,
Canal water preferably, so stilly
Greeny at the heart of summer, Brother
Commemorate me thus beautifully.
Where by a lock Niagariously roars
The falls for those who sit in the tremendous silence
Of mid-July. No one will speak in prose
Who finds his way to these Parnassian islands
A swan goes by head low with many apologies.
Fantastic light looks through the eyes of bridges
And look! a barge comes bringing from Athy
And other far-flung towns mythologies.
O commemorate me with no hero-courageous
Tomb–just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by.
. . . is exquisite. Simply exquisite.
Is there more like it?
Lambchop,
Here area few links about the great Paddy Kavanagh.
http://www.tcd.ie/English/patrickkavanagh/index.html
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/poets.html#Kavanagh
http://www.poemhunter.com/patrick-kavanagh/poet-6773/
http://www.hoganstand.com/general/identity/extras/gaels/stories/kavanagh.htm
There is not a lot of his poetry available on the web alas but his selected poems is in print though I can’t seem to find a link right now - best try some good American sources for poetry books.
Kavanagh, like Austin Clarke, have for far too long been living in the shadow of Yeats but are major poets both.
Kavanagh also set to of his poems to music - he suggested traditional tunes really - one being Raglan Road and the other being If ever you go to Dublin Town. The Dubliners have recorded both versions so PM me with a E-Mail addy and I’ll zap them over to you.
Kavanagh was an Irish Wordsworth in the sense that his work is all based on his almost mystical love of Nature and he has the incredible gift of making the common everyday sight of ditches and wild flowers appear beautiful and light infused.
Slan,
D.
edited to add another link.
D.
i love that one that begins “i am here in a garage in monaghan . . .”
carrickmacross in monaghan is my family ancestral home.
thanks for sharing those sites.
I think that Stacey had some good ones that disturbed quite a few people
I’m just glad that no one thinks MINE are disturbing. That would disturb me greatly 