OCUK forum avatars

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:12

I'm just curious who they are (and if they were important people) or were they just 'discovered' :confused:

Are they part of some sort of 'gang' for example as the avatar text of thug, gangster and hitman have been used along with the avatars.

I have been wondering this for a long time now, sad I know!

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:28

panthro said:
come on man.....you must know AT LEAST ONE of them!!

No unfortunately as I don't watch many gangster films in fact I watch very little TV

LeperousDust said:
They're all from famous gangster films

Cheers, now I know!

So I assume someone in 'authority' likes gangster films then

I wonder who!

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:30

panthro said:
Werewolf, you should do a list and short description of who's who.

I would certainly be interested :cool:

DRZ said:
The Gotti one caused quite some fuss when it was introduced. To this day, I think some people still browse with avatars off because of this.

Gotti

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:35

DRZ said:
IIRC, Spie is of Italian ancestry somewhere along the line. Goes a long way to explaining it

Oh right!

So Italy is known for it's gangsters then?
Of course the Mafia springs to mind (I think they were from Italy).

p.s. I'm not saying that Spie is a gangster!

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:39

robmiller said:
There's Paulie (Joe Pesci) from Goodfellas as Hitman, Tony Soprano from The Sopranos as Wise Guy, that other guy from Goodfellas whose character name I can't remember (Billy?) as Gangster, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) from Scarface as Don, Robert de Niro in some film or other as Underboss, Spie has Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) from the Godfather, and I can't remember what the Commissarios and Men of Honour have but I remember one of then is John Gotti.

Edit: the Commissario is John Gotti. He was a real-life actual Mafia don, hence the controversy.

Crikey, you really know your stuff!

Cheers for that as my curiosity is satisfied (till the next time)

p.s. now I know where the word Don came from as well :cool:

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:45

Cheers Tony Soprano

I just realised that I do in fact recognise one of them namely Al Pacino as I have seen a few of his films!

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:48

Matblack said:
And you didn't get Deniro? Shame on you!

I know

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 21:57

panthro said:
nah, Spie has the best avatar!

I had a job finding it as there is no member search but I have now found it - I wonder who he is probably the gangster boss!

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 22:01

Rotty said:
I think the original origin has more to do with a gangster/mafia related game that lots of poeple were playing at the time that we started using them

Oh right!
I thought it was because of the 'real' Mafia

Come to think of it, it really should have clicked as I actually played the PC version of Mafia but at the time my PC wasn't up to it as the game was a bit too slow to be playable but I actually liked the game.

CurlyWhirly · 14 Apr 2006 at 23:29

dragonflyy said:
The Hitman avatar looks a bit like Avon off Blake 7

Yes I agree, there is quite a resemblance!

CurlyWhirly · 15 Apr 2006 at 20:18

Tomsk said:
You came in here and you didn't know who Spie was!?!

Have you no respect.

I knew who Spie was as he is the OCUK founder what I meant was that I hadn't seen his avatar for so long that I forgot what it looked like

CurlyWhirly · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:12

Yewen said:
It is the date of the nuke, where the forums were re-started.

Are you referring to the original OCUK forum that (sadly) got hacked?
I have read about it a while ago and am just curious if you are talking about the same thing?