Icon meme

Comment here and I'll pick 7 of your icons. You explain here or in your LJ what they mean to you and why you're using them.

regyt picked seven for me:



From 1066 And All That of course. Edward I hammering the Scots. Used mainly for posts about Scotland, made up words etc.



Random Soviet propaganda poster used for 'leftish' posts.



This is from my copy of The Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson. I use it for "pissed off posts". There's more information on the book (and several others) here.



This a wood cut from my most precious book. It's Gide's Thesée with woodcuts by Abram Krol. Again, more details here.



"Colonel Widmerpool Somewhere in England". Cover illustration by Mark Boxer for Anthony Powell's The Military Philosophers. Used for military posts, Britpickery and general pedantry.



The lovely Isabel Bayrakdarian as Cleopatra. Used for music posts, especially opera.



Weak pun. It's a 'doh' nut. It's illustrating the concept of stable and unstable equilibria in spacetime. I use it for physics posts.

Kitan 1

( Shrimp and Padmini 'playing' )

Kitan 2

( Lady Jane Grey watching the Shrimp/Padmini antics )

Kitan 3

Because Leelamayee tends to get left out of photoshoots.

( Leela in the sunshine )

Icon meme again

tatjna asked about these ones.



It was originally my comment on the most recent papal election and the somewhat surprising elevation of Sturmbannfuhrer Ratzinger, riffing of course off the Spanish Inquisition sketch. I use it for posts about religion.



The motto on the Canadian coat of arms plus typical Canadians engaged in that second most Canadian of activities. (At least they aren't trying to sort out federal/provincial jurisdictional issues). Used for Canadian posts.



Taken from a Roger Penrose equation describing the superposition of quantum states of Schrodinger's cat in the famous thought experiment. Used for physics posts.



Death and Anton Block playing chess in Bergman's The Seventh Seal. The movie is my favourite of all and is damn near perfect. I use the icon for philosophical or death related posts.



A not entirely serious spanking icon. Used mainly for flirting.



"We will not be silent" in English and Arabic. I have the tee shirt. Used for posts opposing our lords and masters trying to persuade us that if we surrender all our liberties and allow them to behave like Nazi thugs we will somehow be safer.



An old Gary Larson "Far Side" cartoon. Used for posts when I don't want you to shoot me.