Savannah wrote:I told you that in confidence!junglesmacks wrote:lol..FIGJAM wrote:All super hero's have secret identities, duh!
(First name Tom)
Actually I've had fun trying to guess what some people's given name is. Trilo could end up being a Steven while Savannah could be maulled!
Why so secretive?
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Re: Why so secretive?
FREE THE SHERPAS
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.
Re: Why so secretive?
My spine!
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Re: Why so secretive?
hey savannah my landlord is a prffesional theraupeutic massage therapist i'll get him to teach me how to fix it after. your spine that is
FREE THE SHERPAS
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.
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Re: Why so secretive?
Happymisterfuckinyay is typically too much for people to pronounce.
Mr. Sunshine is a handle that only Sweetpea can use. Amongst others is Head, Babyhead, Hey, and Private Snuffleupagus.
Foxfur is a mashup of my last name, the number of drives in the Voyager spacecraft, my favorite ukrainian dessert, and scotch tape divided by four. A hearty dash of cinnamon completes it.
It's so easy that even a drunken three year old could figure it out.
(I'm on alcoholic rootbeer float number five. Another three and I'll explain the whole algorithm with a flowchart.)
Mr. Sunshine is a handle that only Sweetpea can use. Amongst others is Head, Babyhead, Hey, and Private Snuffleupagus.
Foxfur is a mashup of my last name, the number of drives in the Voyager spacecraft, my favorite ukrainian dessert, and scotch tape divided by four. A hearty dash of cinnamon completes it.
It's so easy that even a drunken three year old could figure it out.
(I'm on alcoholic rootbeer float number five. Another three and I'll explain the whole algorithm with a flowchart.)
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of course what the lovely mr foxfur doesnt say is that a drunken 3 year old just did explain it to him. of course the 3 year old didnt know the rootbeer was alcoholic.Foxfur wrote:Happymisterfuckinyay is typically too much for people to pronounce.
Mr. Sunshine is a handle that only Sweetpea can use. Amongst others is Head, Babyhead, Hey, and Private Snuffleupagus.
Foxfur is a mashup of my last name, the number of drives in the Voyager spacecraft, my favorite ukrainian dessert, and scotch tape divided by four. A hearty dash of cinnamon completes it.
It's so easy that even a drunken three year old could figure it out.
(I'm on alcoholic rootbeer float number five. Another three and I'll explain the whole algorithm with a flowchart.)
FREE THE SHERPAS
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.
Burners with torches is right and natural and just.-fishy.
CATCH AND RELEASE.
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Re: Why so secretive?
Ok. On the sixth and playin with the webcam...


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Re: Why so secretive?
Is that a Chuckie charactor?
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
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Re: Why so secretive?
hmmm...i've yet to be on the playa and so I don't really have a playa name
so I only have my screen name which came from my very first email...I'm 6'2 (which in my family is big) and i'm of Danish descent...
In defaultia I am Monty...no I'm afraid I will have to kill all of you...sorry...its the code
In defaultia I am Monty...no I'm afraid I will have to kill all of you...sorry...its the code
don't play with matches unless you intend to burn
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Re: Why so secretive?
YOu don't look like a python...
Or an English filed martial.
Or an English filed martial.
The Lady with a Lamprey
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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Re: Why so secretive?
..and that's why single letter names are were all the rage back in the day.Foxfur wrote:Happymisterfuckinyay is typically too much for people to pronounce.
I'll call you Happymisterfuckin instead of Foxfur if you would like.
I have a little bit of Savannah with me. Shhh...
Re: Why so secretive?
I'm going to abbreviate and call him Fffff.
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Re: Why so secretive?
Just don't call him Ffffft.Savannah wrote:I'm going to abbreviate and call him Fffff.
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"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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Re: Why so secretive?
It's pronounced like this:
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Re: Why so secretive?
Bigdane:
Go with it!
It works.
Go with it!
It works.
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- tattoogoddess
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Re: Why so secretive?
When on the Playa I do not intend to have a playa name. Not my thing.
Online I am known as TattooGoddess or TattooGoddess85. Just my thing.
In my Career I am known as Danielle Hetrick. Mainly because I do have one thing on my record that will be gone next year.
In my normal life I am Danielle I could care less who knows to be honest. I will just be Danielle on the playa.
Online I am known as TattooGoddess or TattooGoddess85. Just my thing.
In my Career I am known as Danielle Hetrick. Mainly because I do have one thing on my record that will be gone next year.
In my normal life I am Danielle I could care less who knows to be honest. I will just be Danielle on the playa.
maladroit- Burning Man is like a second job, except you pay to work there.
Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus
Burning Man is just the pre party for exodus! - fellow burner during exodus
Re: Why so secretive?
I found that there were three types of people: people who don't use playa names, people who exclusively go by playa names, and people who sometimes go by playa names. I found that if I introduced myself as Bird, people would be more likely to reply with a playa name. If I used my given name, it would be more likely that someone would reply with a given name.
I find the whole concept to be really hokey but also lots of fun when in the mood for it.
Online is a whole different issue. I don't want all the inane crap that I post showing up on a google search of my given name - hence the handle 5280MeV. Also my given name is already taken by one of the mods.
Frog is not a name but some sort of animal affinity/guardian/spirit sort of thing. Not sure what it means. Frogbird, on the other hand, is a true and secret name. It is very important that nobody learns of this name.
I find the whole concept to be really hokey but also lots of fun when in the mood for it.
Online is a whole different issue. I don't want all the inane crap that I post showing up on a google search of my given name - hence the handle 5280MeV. Also my given name is already taken by one of the mods.
Frog is not a name but some sort of animal affinity/guardian/spirit sort of thing. Not sure what it means. Frogbird, on the other hand, is a true and secret name. It is very important that nobody learns of this name.

Re: Why so secretive?
Sorry, man.5280MeV wrote:Online is a whole different issue. I don't want all the inane crap that I post showing up on a google search of my given name - hence the handle 5280MeV. Also my given name is already taken by one of the mods.
Re: Why so secretive?
5280MeV - What's with the picture in the middle?
I thought the three pictures explained some series of progression of you becoming a frog bird. But the middle one throws me for a loop.
I thought the three pictures explained some series of progression of you becoming a frog bird. But the middle one throws me for a loop.
In my world there's only legible and more legible.
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Re: Why so secretive?
The road to frog bird goes through many difficult stages.wh..sh wrote:5280MeV - What's with the picture in the middle?
I thought the three pictures explained some series of progression of you becoming a frog bird. But the middle one throws me for a loop.
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"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
"The powerful are exploiting people, art and ideas, and this leads to us plebes debating how to best ration ice.
Man, no wonder they always win....." Lonesomebri
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Re: Why so secretive?
I swear those frogs where annihilated when we got here.
what fucking ever
what fucking ever
Re: Why so secretive?
I never thought of making an alcoholic root beer float.
What kind of alcohol?
I just happen to have a gallon of blue bunny and fifty gallons of root beer.
I already use my picture as an avatar.
I like Steinar.
What kind of alcohol?
I just happen to have a gallon of blue bunny and fifty gallons of root beer.
I already use my picture as an avatar.
I like Steinar.
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Re: Why so secretive?
I go by three names
that way I can sort where the fuck i know you from
sort of
confuses the shit out of innocent bystanders
if you know me you know which names i prefer
that way I can sort where the fuck i know you from
sort of
confuses the shit out of innocent bystanders
if you know me you know which names i prefer
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Re: Why so secretive?
At work they call me Richard, mostly it just confuses the fuck out of me.
We have an obligation to make space for everyone, we have no obligation to make that space pleasant.
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hmmm don't ever remember calling you Richard....????oneeyeddick wrote:At work they call me Richard, mostly it just confuses the fuck out of me.
Do you really go by that?
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Re: Why so secretive?
I have two playa names depending which side of center camp I am on. I had a feeling of horror when Sailman saw me on the "other side" of the playa and called me Shammy. The people I was with looked at me with a weird confusion. I don't think anyone really caught it.
I'm still not sure how I should actually pronounce Shambala. I only type it, but never really say it out loud.
I'm still not sure how I should actually pronounce Shambala. I only type it, but never really say it out loud.
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Re: Why so secretive?
Shambala wrote:I have two playa names depending which side of center camp I am on. I had a feeling of horror when Sailman saw me on the "other side" of the playa and called me Shammy. The people I was with looked at me with a weird confusion. I don't think anyone really caught it.
I'm still not sure how I should actually pronounce Shambala. I only type it, but never really say it out loud.
seems you could pick up the enunciation from all the folks moaning it................
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Re: Why so secretive?
ygmir wrote:Shambala wrote:I have two playa names depending which side of center camp I am on. I had a feeling of horror when Sailman saw me on the "other side" of the playa and called me Shammy. The people I was with looked at me with a weird confusion. I don't think anyone really caught it.
I'm still not sure how I should actually pronounce Shambala. I only type it, but never really say it out loud.
seems you could pick up the enunciation from all the folks moaning it................
The ball gag might make it unintelligible to most though..
Savannah wrote:It sounds freaky & wrong, so you need to do it.
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....or the fact that domestic farm animals don't actually speak.junglesmacks wrote:ygmir wrote:Shambala wrote:I have two playa names depending which side of center camp I am on. I had a feeling of horror when Sailman saw me on the "other side" of the playa and called me Shammy. The people I was with looked at me with a weird confusion. I don't think anyone really caught it.
I'm still not sure how I should actually pronounce Shambala. I only type it, but never really say it out loud.
seems you could pick up the enunciation from all the folks moaning it................
The ball gag might make it unintelligible to most though..
