| Y'know...
When I first signed on to TM I didn't have an avatar because I had no idea what the word meant! I eventually figured it out and looked through the files to see what was available. I didn't want a trumpet picture, or a brand name. I saw that a lot of the movie and toon avatars were taken and didn't want to copy what someone else had done. I also was unsuccessful at uploading a pic from another source.
I noticed that the Duke was sort of sitting there by himself and unclaimed. He was a symbol for my generation of what the "above the fray" American male was. Patriotic (which he actually was), tough, honest, always the "good guy", and caring but not in the Alan Alda/Phil Donahue style that became part of '80's feminization of men.
He was an actor playing roles that appealed to a part of being male. He's not an actor that many younger ones today know. They probably wouldn't like his movies, anyway. There's much about his movies that would be regarded as politically incorrect as a result of what they're being taught today.
There never was any huge scandal that was associated with The Duke that I had ever heard (watch... now that I said that, some idiot will come up with a tell-all book with some dug-up dirt nobody cares about). If the Duke had been a musician, he would have been a bass player in a big band. Steady, a rock, doing his job quietly but dependably, and clearly. I figured I coud do worse with another symbol.
So, yeah... The Duke.
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