My, long standing, avatar has been with me since....oooh....'98-99?
I used to post on a forum that was all about humourous responses to a "Happy Question of the day", and was normally occupied by a load of fans of Rare. Now my alias at the time was Yorick....you might want to get some popcorn here, this is a longer story than anticipated....because when I had to come up with one I had a mug on my desk with the logo of Mad Yorick's pub in Belgrade Square, Coventry. So I went out, found a picture of a skull, gave it blue eyes, and then added in the red headband of Spinal, a skeleton warrior from Killer Instinct, a game by Rare.
It's stuck with me since then, over many many forums, and through the username change to MrChom...and at this point, well, I just like it. it'e the wallpaper for my phone too...
I even keep a larger version around should I need to resize it:
If I ever lost that image then I will be very sad.