god that is a freaky avatar Sizzle
with some editing you could probably come up with a cool creepy animated avatar, similar to what they did with zidane's headbutt.
same deal with me hodgie, I'm half german but i can't speak it.
Edit: Valve AND Zero would find a way to screw up a steel ball.
I have never seen any other server that used to be so much fun to play on just get so properly rammed into the ground by one person's lazyness, incompetence and inability to grasp how to properly run a server.