MUST HAVE MORE WACKY IDEAS!!
MUST HAVE MORE WACKY IDEAS!!
Hello my lovely compatriots. Last year was my first Burn and I think I fared well in the local custome, however I need more this year. Last year I gave out action figures to the inhabetents of the center camp. We shared all manor of humoresness and hijinks. What should I do?! I need more gifts to give ! Games to play! Love to spread!(I'm a theatre guy dammit!) Please, burners unite, Must have wacky ideas!!(I am now cumposed)
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robbidobbs
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Wacky ideas
Here's one: adopt the pottie cluster (you know, the bank of porta potties that we all hang out at at least once/day).
How to:
1) decorate it in your camp's theme. any decor however must be completely (LNT) before the end of the Event. Zip ties and duct tape only. It must also stay on the units and not become moop.
2) avoid candles/incense as they fumigate the plastic box in a bad way.
3) Since you're a theater person, do skits/one person shows demonstrating/educating your audience about Excremental Correctness so we can keep having an Event.
There is so much giggly weirdness that can be wrought from shit-humor. Intellectuals just love that silly BS.
Any questions? join Pottie-list (at) burningman (dot) com
How to:
1) decorate it in your camp's theme. any decor however must be completely (LNT) before the end of the Event. Zip ties and duct tape only. It must also stay on the units and not become moop.
2) avoid candles/incense as they fumigate the plastic box in a bad way.
3) Since you're a theater person, do skits/one person shows demonstrating/educating your audience about Excremental Correctness so we can keep having an Event.
There is so much giggly weirdness that can be wrought from shit-humor. Intellectuals just love that silly BS.
Any questions? join Pottie-list (at) burningman (dot) com
I'll be in my blanket fort until further notice.
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robbidobbs
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Superman in the Temple
Last year there was a guy in a monkey suit that hid inside the potties, and leaped out roaring when someone openned the door.
Quite the presentation, draws additional attention to the potties, and participants think a bit more closely about this valuable resource if they're worried about someone leaping out at them.
I like it.
Superman outfitted participant would have a similar effect. You could even "counsel" the pooper prior to them taking a leak.
Quite the presentation, draws additional attention to the potties, and participants think a bit more closely about this valuable resource if they're worried about someone leaping out at them.
I like it.
Superman outfitted participant would have a similar effect. You could even "counsel" the pooper prior to them taking a leak.
I'll be in my blanket fort until further notice.
Competition
Perhaps you could create a visual race track where competitors...people using the potties.....register and mark an inch for each donation they make. The person who uses the pottie the most (hopefully this encourages water drinking) wins. Perhaps special awards for people with the best self-described, human-body-made donation to the pottie gets a prize (longest/biggest/most colorful/odd textured etc.). Or get a stop watch and host pee races - the person who we can hear pee the longest gets a prize!
Captive audiences are more receptive to reading/education because they are bored (the exception, of course, are classrooms). Perhaps a line of signs leading to the potty. Some can list statistics about the number of potties used last year, how much waste was taken away, how many people it takes to service all the BM potties...force some appreciation for this service being provided. Maybe a row of signs showing the forbidden things in the past which ended up in the pottie and caused problems.....each with a red circle and slash over the image. I bet we'd be amazed what some people put in the potties. And just because said object came out of a human body doesn't mean it was created by said human body, huh? (Yeah, my job had me working near an emergency room....how many barbie doll heads did you pull out of his butt?! And he wanted them all back?!) Maybe hang glow sticks on the signs at night - kinda of an airport landing strip effect.
Maybe you could post daily BRC newspapers to read in line, but make sure visitors can't take them into the pottie so they keep their minds on their immediate business.
Maybe get paper from the paper making camp and fold it into origami dragons and tether them securely with strings to the potties so the dragons fly when the wind blows (taking care not to cause MOOP).
Or maybe build a graffiti wall where people can share/scribble potty humor while they wait. Start the wall off with startling facts about pee and poop. The biggest animal poop on record. The weigh of the largest fossilized animal poop. Why pee smells strange after eating asparagus or changes color with beets in the diet. What animals don't poop (owls I think throw up their waste).
Go for community service - host a stand that offers free breast and rectal exams.
Time for me to think about something else.
'stine
Captive audiences are more receptive to reading/education because they are bored (the exception, of course, are classrooms). Perhaps a line of signs leading to the potty. Some can list statistics about the number of potties used last year, how much waste was taken away, how many people it takes to service all the BM potties...force some appreciation for this service being provided. Maybe a row of signs showing the forbidden things in the past which ended up in the pottie and caused problems.....each with a red circle and slash over the image. I bet we'd be amazed what some people put in the potties. And just because said object came out of a human body doesn't mean it was created by said human body, huh? (Yeah, my job had me working near an emergency room....how many barbie doll heads did you pull out of his butt?! And he wanted them all back?!) Maybe hang glow sticks on the signs at night - kinda of an airport landing strip effect.
Maybe you could post daily BRC newspapers to read in line, but make sure visitors can't take them into the pottie so they keep their minds on their immediate business.
Maybe get paper from the paper making camp and fold it into origami dragons and tether them securely with strings to the potties so the dragons fly when the wind blows (taking care not to cause MOOP).
Or maybe build a graffiti wall where people can share/scribble potty humor while they wait. Start the wall off with startling facts about pee and poop. The biggest animal poop on record. The weigh of the largest fossilized animal poop. Why pee smells strange after eating asparagus or changes color with beets in the diet. What animals don't poop (owls I think throw up their waste).
Go for community service - host a stand that offers free breast and rectal exams.
Time for me to think about something else.
'stine
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Captain Goddammit
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Hey, Captain - It's quite easy for me to throw out possibilities and leave him to work out the realities of the project if he picks that route. BTW, I wouldn't think you'd be shy of rectal things. Aren't you the self-professed "Single man with colder airconditioner and better booze than Jugajello seeks ho to escort his ass to tha' burn. Some anal required." ;-)
So, did you pick a lucky "ho?" yet?
What kind of tequila do ya'll serve in your margaritas? I might could swing by to say a personal "Hey, ya'll" and muse some more potty art possibilities.
'stine
So, did you pick a lucky "ho?" yet?
What kind of tequila do ya'll serve in your margaritas? I might could swing by to say a personal "Hey, ya'll" and muse some more potty art possibilities.
'stine
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robbidobbs
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Tequila!
Last year I was spewing forth at the 4:00 pottie cluster, where there was a crew servicing the units. I entertained the troopers while they worked. When they were nearly finished, these girls came over and offered shots of tequila, with lemon and salt to the workers. The owner was right there, but some took it, and some didn't (kiss-asses). It was a wonderful gesture.
JotS loves us, we should love 'em back.
JotS loves us, we should love 'em back.
I'll be in my blanket fort until further notice.
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robbidobbs
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Re: Competition
'stine wrote:Time for me to think about something else. 'stine
Welcome to MY world.These are all WONDERFUL ideas, Stine.
I'll be in my blanket fort until further notice.
My corner of the world
Why, thank you, robbidobbs! :-)
After mulling over my post and learning that the Big Puffy Yellow Camp is near some portojohns, I've decided that I'm going to put together a series of laminated scatalogical info cards to entertain pottie visitors. It'd be fun (amusingly gross) to collect the info and make the cards and easy to pack into my luggage (which hopefully won't get searched).
Thought that came from the place where all odd are conceived and purged: Wouldn't it be great to have a realistic piece of art that looked like a giant dinosaur poop? Would make viewers look around to see what huge beast was lurking on the playa..... maybe put some odd artsy bits in it so it looked like the animal had been feasting on burners....
'stine
After mulling over my post and learning that the Big Puffy Yellow Camp is near some portojohns, I've decided that I'm going to put together a series of laminated scatalogical info cards to entertain pottie visitors. It'd be fun (amusingly gross) to collect the info and make the cards and easy to pack into my luggage (which hopefully won't get searched).
Thought that came from the place where all odd are conceived and purged: Wouldn't it be great to have a realistic piece of art that looked like a giant dinosaur poop? Would make viewers look around to see what huge beast was lurking on the playa..... maybe put some odd artsy bits in it so it looked like the animal had been feasting on burners....
'stine
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Captain Goddammit
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VerbenaMaya
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hey stine, & robbidobbs..
how bout some cards on the theme - if it doesnt belong in your body it doesnt belong in the potty- using some of the photos of xrays of the strange things people have put up their bums, sure they are around on the net somewhere
how bout some cards on the theme - if it doesnt belong in your body it doesnt belong in the potty- using some of the photos of xrays of the strange things people have put up their bums, sure they are around on the net somewhere
[i]It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings.
But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an Angel gets set on fire.
- Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts [/i]
But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, an Angel gets set on fire.
- Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts [/i]
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Captain Goddammit
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sound bites...god bless 'em....the bullets of modern communications, eh, Captain? ;-)
If the G8 mess hurries up and gets the hell out of our town and the blessed tourists return with their plentiful greenbacks, I may be able to bring a bit of Patron or Herradura as a formal greeting. Or perhaps some Grand Marnier? A wee splash gives a good margarita a delightful tweak.
VerbenaMaya - good idea for illustrations on the cards. robbidobbs - where do I get a list of things found in the BM potties last year?
'stine
If the G8 mess hurries up and gets the hell out of our town and the blessed tourists return with their plentiful greenbacks, I may be able to bring a bit of Patron or Herradura as a formal greeting. Or perhaps some Grand Marnier? A wee splash gives a good margarita a delightful tweak.
VerbenaMaya - good idea for illustrations on the cards. robbidobbs - where do I get a list of things found in the BM potties last year?
'stine
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robbidobbs
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pottie debris
Last year was a very good year for shit. The only reported debris (asside from bottle caps, cig butts and tampons) was a man's dress shirt. When the shit-covered shirt was sucked up by a JotS guy, it WHIPPED UP and nearly tagged him. This pissed him off, truly.'stine wrote: good idea for illustrations on the cards. robbidobbs - where do I get a list of things found in the BM potties last year?
'stine
This same guy had just told me this story when servicing a bank of potties out by 4:00. I immediately spun around and LAUNCHED a diatribe to the waiting participants about this shirt event. Many of them were repulsed and angry that one of our own would do such a thing.
I mean come on! It could have tagged him in the eye!
I'm sure there were more incidents of gross material found in the potties, but the NUMBER ONE item that really burns their biscuits is having a wad of baby-wipes clog their hose. Just one of these can take down a pump truck. Oh and hose clogs have to be extracted MANUALLY.
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robbidobbs
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pottie debris
Last year was a very good year for shit. The only reported debris (asside from bottle caps, cig butts and tampons) was a man's dress shirt. When the shit-covered shirt was sucked up by a JotS guy, it WHIPPED UP and nearly tagged him. This pissed him off, truly.'stine wrote: good idea for illustrations on the cards. robbidobbs - where do I get a list of things found in the BM potties last year?
'stine
This same guy had just told me this story when servicing a bank of potties out by 4:00. I immediately spun around and LAUNCHED a diatribe to the waiting participants about this shirt event. Many of them were repulsed and angry that one of our own would do such a thing.
I mean come on! It could have tagged him in the eye!
I'm sure there were more incidents of gross material found in the potties, but the NUMBER ONE item that really burns their biscuits is having a wad of baby-wipes clog their hose. Just one of these can take down a pump truck. Oh and hose clogs have to be extracted MANUALLY.