favorite playa utterances

[ygmir]

"where's the cafeteria?"

[Ugly Dougly]

"If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

[Fire_Moose]

"Whiskey and white gas? Isn't that a little dangerous?"

"We only use a tiny bit of white gas"

"Oh, alright, ill give it a shot..."

[CLARKcon]

(overheard by the porta potties while I was lying down for sleep...)

DISGUSTED GUY: "But C'mon, what the FUCK! Even my 3 year-old nephew knows how to take a shit without smearing it all over the seat!!"

I chuckled to myself for,ooooh, bout' 10 minutes or so

[Oso]

"Good thing we brought a Dustbuster with us"

[motskyroonmatick]

"Stagger On!"

[Remark]

WHEN: 2002 Dusk, Middle of nowhere playa, friend and I walking and two guys on bikes coming right at us very very fast.
UTTERANCE: Guy A: "It's no good, I can't maneuver!"
Guy B: "Stay on target."
Guy A: "We're too close!"
Guy B: "Stay on target!"
Guy A: <shouting> "Loosen up!"
They scream by on both sides of us...
REACTION: I am immediately twelve again, grinning from ear to ear!
RESPONSE: I holler (hopefully in time for them to hear)..."it came from behind!!!

[knowmad]

"If you leave your window down just a crack the Static electricity will not biuld up so bad and you'll have less dust in your car." "oh, and put your air filter in your glove box so it doesn't get all gunky!"

[Elorrum]

WHEN: 2002 Dusk, Middle of nowhere playa, friend and I walking and two guys on bikes coming right at us very very fast.
UTTERANCE: Guy A: "It's no good, I can't maneuver!"
Guy B: "Stay on target."
Guy A: "We're too close!"
Guy B: "Stay on target!"
Guy A: <shouting> "Loosen up!"
They scream by on both sides of us...
REACTION: I am immediately twelve again, grinning from ear to ear!
RESPONSE: I holler (hopefully in time for them to hear)..."it came from behind!!!

immediately twelve again. you've nailed it with this story.

[Mister Jellyfish Mister]

WHEN: 2002 Dusk, Middle of nowhere playa, friend and I walking and two guys on bikes coming right at us very very fast.
UTTERANCE: Guy A: "It's no good, I can't maneuver!"
Guy B: "Stay on target."
Guy A: "We're too close!"
Guy B: "Stay on target!"
Guy A: <shouting> "Loosen up!"
They scream by on both sides of us...
REACTION: I am immediately twelve again, grinning from ear to ear!
RESPONSE: I holler (hopefully in time for them to hear)..."it came from behind!!!

immediately twelve again. you've nailed it with this story.

"She's breaking up! She's breaking up! Aaaaaaah!!!" Priceless!

[Goatlegz 5000]

"I feel like a koala bear climbed inside my brain and crapped a rainbow"

[pizzamancer]

Where's the food court?

ROFL! You should have seen the time I had one of the Japanese kids ask a ranger that question. When he finally figured out what he was asking, the ranger started to get really concerned, asking if he was okay, if he had water,... I was rolling on the ground.

My first burn, I went 'searching' for the food court (I made sure to dress as a tourist). I asked one camp where it was and a chick freaked out on me, and told me that I was ruining her burn because I was so stupid. Good comedy.

My fav Playa phrase?

FUCK YEAH

[sputnik]

Fuck yer burn

[gyre]

Where's the food court?

ROFL! You should have seen the time I had one of the Japanese kids ask a ranger that question. When he finally figured out what he was asking, the ranger started to get really concerned, asking if he was okay, if he had water,... I was rolling on the ground.

My first burn, I went 'searching' for the food court (I made sure to dress as a tourist). I asked one camp where it was and a chick freaked out on me, and told me that I was ruining her burn because I was so stupid. Good comedy.

So stupid you ruined someone's burn!
Impressive.

[sputnik]

God damn hippies!

[knowmad]

My Alla Fave.
"Who's in charge?" "Is there some one in charge of this camp here?."

[Apollonaris Zeus]

Can I borrow some toilet paper? This one is out

[Fire_Moose]

"I feel like a koala bear climbed inside my brain and crapped a rainbow"

stolen from Sealab 2021

[gaminwench]

2002, Burn night...
I'm designated 'camp security',so I've climbed up to the top of our frontage art, to watch the man burn (and keep an eye on the neighborhood)...
Along comes a 20something asian fellow with his duffle bag and a BRC map - he has clearly just arrived (!) and is confuzzled, so I speak up from above his head..."Can I help you?"
His response " Where is everybody?"
pointing to playa..."See all the lights & fire?"
"Ohhhhh....."

poor guy, hope he had a good time!

[gyre]

By the fire on the esplanade, after standing there for quite a while the night the man pre-burned, staring out into the playa.

"So....where is the man anyway?"


They had driven in and seen the man as they arrived and set up camp while everything happened, without hearing about any of it.
So they knew the man was there, having already seen it.

[orangepeelmoses]

"Shame them ducks had to die...but this tent's gonna survive."

--Billy Hill

[accordionMan]

Heard in Center Camp:

"Any one got acid?" "Any one got acid?" "Any one got acid?"

2 hours later, the same guy being held up by 2 other guys, I hear the same guy say...


"umblea umblea umblea umblea"

[gidget]

WHEN: 2002 Dusk, Middle of nowhere playa, friend and I walking and two guys on bikes coming right at us very very fast.

Same year, almost same scenario: this guy blazes right past my hubby yelling "Drunk on bike! Drunk on bike!"

[falcon451]

I've always loved this one, from a post by Gyre on 9-28-08

"I was bored and I had some propane left"
(meaning 400-500 lbs)

'What a girl said to me late one night, after setting off a fuel air explosion over our camp with no notice.

That actually made sense to me.'

[Mister Jellyfish Mister]

From 4th of JuPlaya:

"Yeah, but I'm a ZERO DRAMA princess.".

[googbox]

Some of my favorites that I remember (this year I'm bringing a notebook dammit)

"you know, the playa diet. It's like Atkins. With sand."

"I just had a staring contest with a frog"--said by our very timid republican virgin campmate after she had been gone way too long for a trip to the porta potties.

me: "whose tortilla is this on my tent?"
campmate: "leave it there, it's our playa tortilla warmer!"

Jellyfish-- i have a feeling I may be friends w/ the person who claimed to be a zero drama princess.

[googbox]

Oh and another BTW... at 4th I think I must've been asked at least 20 times if I knew where Ein Hammer was. I didn't.

[theCryptofishist]

Cool! Ein Hammer's pounding itself into the burner consciousness.
REmember, Mad Scientist Rampage Wednesday will end up there!

[knowmad]

Cool! Ein Hammer's pounding itself into the burner consciousness....

Yeah! because if there were Burner Consciousness it would have to have whatever pounded into it by a Ginormus Fire Spewing Hammer.

[VeganChoirGirl]

One of the top ten highlights of 2009, without a doubt.


situation : Girl with megaphone....Screaming

Quote....."LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!"

Location, Esplanade & Tenth


Reaction: Crowd turns to look.

Girl with megaphone demurely whispers into bullhorn:

[size=7]"Thank you"

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