For the record, I could see the dog, DVMorBust, and had to spend a minute or two trying to see how people would see a horse x-ray. I can kinda get it...kinda.
Also (and I am too lazy to go back and quote from the previous page..), I too get really confused when people change their avatars. I usually don't look at the screennames when I read replies, just glance at the avatars. Bad habit, I guess.
Anyway, my screenname is from a nickname I got in high school band. I had to switch from playing clarinet to playing the marimba, and was really practicing a lot to get it right, and my band director at the time complimented me on my "skillz" and said he was going to call me Skillet from then on. It kinda caught on within a small group of my friends, and I made it my AIM screenname...and pretty much everything else after that. The 9886 is my birthday...9/8/86.
My avatar is a picture I randomly found online a few years ago. In case you can't read it, it's a stop sign that someone vandalized so it says "Don't Stop Believing." Keeping with the theme of consistency (that's a bit redundant..) it's also my AIM icon or avatar or whatever. I think it's particularly relevant for this board, since, you know, keeping hope alive during vet school apps. Also, I know I said this in another thread here, but I am a huge Journey fan. You can't tell me you don't bust out singing every time you hear "Don't Stop Believing." Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world....