We have the limit so that people who connect using modems can still access the forum easily (rather than waiting for long downloads).
]]>The first two are over double the limit, and the pacman one is unfortunately just a few bytes over. It shouldn't be too hard to edit that one slightly to make it small enough, if you want that one as your avatar.
I like Garfield though.
Edit: Because it was his avatar at the time, not just a random comment.
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