How Did You Get Your Playa Name?

flatlander13 · Post by **flatlander13** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:02 am

What is your playa name? Is it the same as your Eplaya name?
How did you get your playa name......and does it have any meaning?

I'll go first.......

My original Playa was Scout because my real first name is Scott....but every other idiot at Burning Man is named Scout (which means that I fit perfectly)....I changed my name to Flatlander....it comes from a Larry Niven novel called Ringworld.....its a description of humans from Earth in the future....its also used as derogatory description of humans from Earth.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:43 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_of_the_Desert_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites

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Post by **AntiM** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:51 am

Anti M = Auntie Em = Aunt Margaret, in a note left by my nephew and adopted by my burner buddies.

Originally maggiemayday, my George Hayduke Revenge name, but everyone called me Maggie. Maggie is better than Marge, but I still don't like it much.

Also, Bad Maggie, from non-burner friends who like to hear about Burning Man. That amuses me.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:59 am

i always just assumed you hated the 14th letter with all of your heart.

i was wrong.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:01 am

Playa names?
Eplaya names?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:48 am

some refer to a persons particular perversions............

Post by **Sham** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:48 am

I'm thinking of this as my playa name. I'm not sure if it's taken yet!

geospyder · Post by **geospyder** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:04 am

Used to race cars as a hobby. My favorite was the Toyota MR2 Spyder. Just added geo to make it earthy. Same name used for Geocaching. All ties together.

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:18 am

ibdave... easy enough to figure that one

campname's

Finger.... yes for that reason
ranger... Cuz I'm the babysitter in our camp
ibdave... see above...

thisisthatwhichis · Post by **thisisthatwhichis** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:27 am

My first year, a cute thang walked up at Center Camp and handed me my "Tarot" card signifying something about me....... Then she skipped off.... One of my first experiences to random acts of interactive gifting.....

It read..... This Is That..... Which Is.

And, yes...... I still have the card.............

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:04 pm

Dust Boogers.
You can`t escape them at BRC.
I could have used Aggravating for my 1st name, but Evil works better in a Haiku.

**burn** · Post by **burn** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:07 pm

Friday night at burningman, at the bonfire into the wee hours of the night,
drank drank drunk with Karine, LeChat, Mozy & Bump,
they introduced me to _______
"asterisk strisk, crap, we're calling you risky!"

It changes sometimes to whisky, or frisky, depending....

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:19 pm

AntiM wrote:Anti M = Auntie Em = Aunt Margaret, in a note left by my nephew and adopted by my burner buddies.

Originally maggiemayday, my George Hayduke Revenge name, but everyone called me Maggie. Maggie is better than Marge, but I still don't like it much.

Also, Bad Maggie, from non-burner friends who like to hear about Burning Man. That amuses me.

NO!!

I never put that 2 and 2 together....but I remember the Maggiemayday in Hayduke.
I'm a long time Hayduke fan and now I'm going to have to dig out all my volumes to see which specific mayhem is yours!

I'm convinced we were separated at birth.

Oldguy · Post by **Oldguy** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:44 pm

I'm an old guy, it fits. I gave it to myself as a matter of pride that I've lived this long considering all the dangerous shit I've done.

In prison I was called O.G., meaning original gangster.

As an Alpha, I called myself Oxford 5.

I've been known as Catfish, Rock, and Wizard. Depending which volunteer crew I was on, they would call me by that crew name. At the airport, I'm Catfish. At centercamp, I'm oldguy.

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:45 pm

When my husband and I started dating 10 years ago, he asked it was cool for him to call me Red (for the red hair). I said sure, and from then on to him, I was Red.

A year later when I came to my first Burn, I introduced myself to people as Red, and met several other people who called themselves Red. Then, when I got on eplaya and tried to use Red as my handle, I was informed that there already was a Red. I threw Oregon in before the Red and OregonRed was born.

I use it on the playa now for a couple reasons. First of all, it's what you guys all know me as, and those of you that I camp around call me that. Second, I haven't met another OregonRed, which I like.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:00 pm

I picked my current name 2 years ago, my previous name was GreenPenis, which I didn't pick...but it stuck because that was the name of my themecamp.

With the themecamp no longer going on I thought it was time to move on to something a little more "tongue-in-cheek".

Being called "GreenPenis" was never comfortable for me, and after 9 years of it , I had had enough of the wierd reactions upon introduction.

Even Larry wiped his hand off(jokingly) when we were introduced the first time.

oscillator · Post by **oscillator** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:51 pm

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard gifted it to me back in 1939.

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Post by **AntiM** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:08 pm

Oh, Mojo, don't go look, that's some of my worst writing ever. The rough draft got published, not a polished piece. I wish I'd hung on to the correspondence we had going. There was much more mayhem I'd submitted, but either he died or went to prison or found a girlfriend in Argentina.

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:33 pm

I seem to remember that Hayduke referred to your correspondence with him a few times.....

Mojo = my sweet labrador retriever that was my best friend and constant shadow for 18 years.

swampdog · Post by **swampdog** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:55 pm

Swampdog - My title at work got so it didn't describe what I did at all. In a fit of pique I submitted a request to my boss to get new business cards. He didn't notice that I put my title as "Swampdog" and signed it right off. My thinking was, this place is a swamp and I'm a big dog. You want to get something done, you're gonna wanna talk to the Swampdog. It was kind of cool a couple of times when I was in meetings with outside companies (potential customers or suppliers) and I'd bust out the "Swampdog" cards. People would give me a look like, "here's one of those renegades who can get away with shit because everyone knows how good he is." Instant cred.

I'm still at that (very big) company, I don't know what my title is these days and I no longer care. As long as the checks keep clearing, I'm a happy drone. I think I still have half a box of "Swampdog" business cards, though.

Not as cool as a name someone gifted me, but it suits me.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:21 pm

Found it in the 3 for a Dollar box at a garage sale.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:08 am

geospyder wrote:Used to race cars as a hobby. My favorite was the Toyota MR2 Spyder. Just added geo to make it earthy. Same name used for Geocaching. All ties together.

I thought all the Mister Twos were targas, not convertibles?
Or did I miss one?

I found a Geo Storm convertible though.
Might be a oneoff.

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:28 am

had a college friend who's girlfriend heard of an underground party we could go help decorate

thought, cool... hang out, stage craft stuff (years of it in h.s.), and hang out

it was called blissmass, and i came out as an elf

rocked it, and sultan of nuclear fam declared my name... made a point of including 'the' for some reason...

then some wandering and travelling, post-college-psych, found me flirting with a couple cults...

one called me satyaaum, saying i had knocked with the right knock

much to the chagrin of the second, who countered with "mayavin 'an incarnation of visnu'"

though the streets of venice (beach) call(ed) me monk

soo hard to know whether they still do

soo many miles away

the fire elf · Post by **the fire elf** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:29 am

not that type of 'came out', mind you

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:23 am

Pinemom:

I grew up In Lake Tahoe....
When I was a crazy teen...my nick was D.A.R.B.I.

Cause we were always es'stonied...
(DRUGS ACID REEFER BONG INSANITY)

Later, got married, had kids...as kids turned into teenagers...I was always called MOM by all of them(their friends) But because of other mom's I was reffered to as The PINE mom.

Used it on email addy's etc...since 1994....
Then when I registered on here...I didnt know what else to put.

Now...the name goes without saying... "camp"mom.
Bring in drama and your MOVING OUT!
(You dont gotta go home, ya just cant stay here)

OneeyedDick is working to change my name to Piney! and I like it!
(cause your an adult and Im not your mom!)

But it will always come back to Pinemom I guess....::sigh::

geospyder · Post by **geospyder** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:13 pm

gyre wrote:
geospyder wrote:Used to race cars as a hobby. My favorite was the Toyota MR2 Spyder. Just added geo to make it earthy. Same name used for Geocaching. All ties together.
I thought all the Mister Twos were targas, not convertibles?
Or did I miss one?

I found a Geo Storm convertible though.
Might be a oneoff.

Here is a shot someone took of me on Thunderhill raceway in NorCal 6-7 years ago. It doesn't show, but this MR2 was heavily modified for the track while keeping it street drivable - suspension, intake, exhaust, etc. When time came for the first CA smog check I registered it in Nevada using our address there. No way with the intake and exhaust modification would it have passed CA Smog even tough it was probably cleaner than what they required. The mods were custom and didn't have the CA certification tags.

Monkeypoo · Post by **Monkeypoo** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:52 pm

How I Got My Playa Name....

I like monkeys. I especially love oranutans and gorillas and chimps....

*swinging on the chandelier*

Have I told this story before? I'm sure I have 3-4 or 15 times.... It was a lonely isolated night in the eplaya bar in 2003. Donita (my mundane persona) came into the eplaya bar bored. She brought in a friend....a beautiful red-headed orangutan. They got drunk. VERY DRUNK. For every Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that Donita drank, the orangutan drank two and eventually she got WILD. Fucking wild. The apple don't fall from the tree. heehee. Monkey got out of control, especially when she found the jukebox and played this song...

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The monkey went fucking APE WILD....hung from the chandelier, throwing kisses, flinging poo across the room.... YOU HAD TO BE THERE. Gigglesnort was there, Sputnik was there, Sensei was there..... Monkey started kissing patrons of eplaya bar all over as they mozied in on into the bar wondering, "WTF is going on here???!!!" She went wild, humping and bumping, swinging from the rafters, dancing like a freak, having FUN...

Next day monkey had a huge hangover.

...and that's how I got my name.

Welcome to my jungle.....now scream --- SCREAM!!!!

If you look closely into the rafters or corners of the Bar, you'll still find loving monkeypoo in the crevices. They smell sweet...like patchouli. Yay!

MagickPlayaFairy · Post by **MagickPlayaFairy** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:19 pm

I made up my own name. I don't need anyone to give me a name.
I saw people on playa. I saw them making love in the dust. I saw them
making love as they spun fire. I hit them on the head and private parts
with my magick playa fairy dust wand. I whacked them on their asses hard.
They liked it. They asked for more. With every wish you ask for, your
dreams go out to the universe and are answered. Y'all are a bunch of kinky
mother kinky fuckers. I, and the universe, hear your wishes.

They are being granted.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:38 pm

You smell like a mouse.

Monkeypoo · Post by **Monkeypoo** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:38 pm

whats a mouse?