FAQ
Q. How do I add an avatar?
A. Wordpress blogs use Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars) to insert avatars into comments and posts. So how do you do it? Well, first you’ll want to go to www.gravatar.com and sign up. Make sure you use an e-mail address that you will sign into here with, because that’s how it knows how to attach your gravatar. Various blogs and other sites throughout the internet use Gravatars as well. So simply by attaching your avatar to an e-mail address, your avatar will automatically be used on any Gravatar supporting site that you login with that e-mail address with. Once you’re signed up on www.gravatar.com, be sure to add your avatar pic. It might take a few minutes to completely attach in posts.
Q. Hey Racki, do you look like your avatar pick?
A. Not a damn thing. For an explanation of the avatar, see below. However if you look closely in Steve-O’s avatar, you can actually pick him out. Sorry Steve-O.
Q. Just what does “Putting on the Foil” mean?
A. The site name comes from the epic hockey movie “Slapshot“. If you haven’t seen it yet, then you need to get your butt to the video store. The hockey players taped foil on their hands to give them an advantage in a fight.
Q. Ok, so what do your screen names mean?
A. Well, Steve-O is pretty unoriginal. So you can guess where his name comes from. Trogdor is a character from Homestar Runner, he is a creation of the character Strong Bad. As for Racki, Racki is a character from the much less epic 80’s hockey movie Youngblood. He was the antagonist of the movie – Carl Racki of the goon for the Thunderbay Bombers. Racki’s avatar is an actual picture of the character in the movie. I recommend it as a rental for cheap laughs, but back in the day the movie was awesome (another childhood memory ruined when I caught this one on TV recently).
Have a question you want answered? Either send an e-mail to contact@puttingonthefoil.com or use the “contact us” selection from the site menu, under help.
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Themocracy
cheap shot on Patrick Swayze!
lol
Most people won’t get that, but that’s hilarious.
I’m just trying to get my photo up from Gravatar and its not seeming to work. I cleared my cache so hopefully that works now. I’m just an invisible man here.
Ok. Working now.