Theme Ideas That Didn't Make It

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:50 pm

Just curious. I've heard over the years that the painstaking process of coming up with the perfect theme each year is often fraught with ideas and suggestions that end up on the side of the road for various reasons.

I've heard of a few. Anyone else know of any?

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:50 pm

The Seven Ages of Bruno

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:00 pm

The Vault in My Pants.

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:53 am

Camp Bodia

(say it outloud)

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:34 am

"Disneyland"

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:25 am

Sex, Drugs, and Techno

(Oh, wait a minute...actually, I don't think that one has been rejected yet...)

uBeRpLaYa · Post by **uBeRpLaYa** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:45 am

hOw aBoUt: tHe cHaSte sHaLL sUrViVe!

uBeRpLaYa · Post by **uBeRpLaYa** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:46 am

oR: aCcOuStIc pLaYa

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:14 am

Lust in the Dust?

Kill a Yahoo for Christ?

Down in Front! ?

SilkenTofu · Post by **SilkenTofu** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:28 am

how about

Oohhh...what's that over there

or

I Can't Belive it's not Burningman

or maybe

Don't look at me, I didn't do it

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:44 am

Curb Feeler Christmas

or

The Truth About De-Evolution

or

anything containing the word "monkey".

SilkenTofu · Post by **SilkenTofu** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:46 am

samtzu wrote:Kill a Yahoo for Christ?

Sam, not sure if God would be down with this, and the phone booth is already gone or someone coulda called and asked.

one last suggestion

Burningman...now with 50% less net carbs

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:28 am

Silken Tofu wrote:

samtzu wrote:
Kill a Yahoo for Christ?

Sam, not sure if God would be down with this, and the phone booth is already gone or someone coulda called and asked.

one last suggestion

Burningman...now with 50% less net carbs

Sorry... the whole concept of "God" escapes me, but I have the utmost respect for Christ... anyone as good as he is, who can put up with our outrageous crap and not blast us to powder is probably displaying godlike attributes, but "Slap a Yahoo for Christ" just doesn't have the same.... um... cachet. Of course, "Rip a Yahoo a New Asshole, Rip off His Head, and Shit Down the Hole for Christ" is over the top...

How about "Fluffy Furry Things on the Playa"?

Or..."It was Better Last Year" ?

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:35 am

Art Reborn

aka Been There Done That

or "Wasn't that spaceship a flying carpet last year? And a pirate ship the year before?" (Not that reusing isn't great, inspired and creative, but it is fun playing spot the newest use of old materials).

There's a reason our unofficial camp name is always recycled crap camp. I am personally at the top of the list as the most worn out item limping back to the playa annually.

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:38 am

"This is your life"

'cause it has already been done...

on the other hand... everyone could be an announcer and/or guest.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:57 am

"Job Hunting" with street names: Pavement Pounding, Resume Writing, Sleeping Your Way In The Door, and Blowing the Interview

SilkenTofu · Post by **SilkenTofu** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:40 am

theCryptofishist wrote:"Job Hunting" with street names: Pavement Pounding, Resume Writing, Sleeping Your Way In The Door, and Blowing the Interview

That could actually be fun. Everyone has to prepare a resume, and the info board would have job listings at theme camps "bartender" "strip pole dancer" "art guardian" "pyromaniac needed" etc.

Homeless people in the middle of intersections on the Esplanade with cardborad signs, flashing with El-Wire, stating "will work for art"

But I guess the downside would be thousands of paper resumes flying down the street collecting at the trash fences.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:53 am

Okay, so now I have to think of something even worse?

Hm.
Skip "The Bodhi Tree" with the streets named after the 8-fold path. (Although, "Achieving Enlightenment" as a themic euphamism for "the Burn" has a sort of ring to it.)

Dentristry!

Auto de Fe! (Oh wait, that was last year.)

The Iraqi War! No tickets, you just hope you don't get drafted.

Soul busting poverty!

the Cultural Revolution--instead of paying for your coffee at center camp, it's a round of "critisism/self-critisism"

A Frank Sinatra Tribute

A Pharmacutical Cornicopia!

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:18 pm

Some History-Based Themes:

Great Wars of History

Natural Disasters! ("It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!")

What the Industrial Revolution has done for me!

People that could have been famous, if they had existed.

Evolution (and/or the converse: "Devolution")

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 1:59 pm

Still waiting for Us and Them.

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:00 pm

Hippies and the Rest of Us

Woodrow · Post by **Woodrow** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:05 pm

How about "SEX!!"??...

.... or has that been done already?....

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:15 pm

It's only a week in the desert.

Has been cancelled (I can see the tickets and logos: Burningman 2005: Has been cancelled)

We all know this one's the actual theme for most people anyway, so why not make it official:

Pseudointellectual new-age claptrap.

uBeRpLaYa · Post by **uBeRpLaYa** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:16 pm

tRy tHiS oNe:
dO iT hErE bEcAuSe yOuR aFrAiD tO gO tHe nUdE bEaCh nEaR yOuR hOuSe bEcAuSe yOu mIgHt gEt rEcOgNiZed

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:20 pm

The Seven Stages of Addiction

SilkenTofu · Post by **SilkenTofu** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:30 pm

The 12 Days of Christmastm

er..some how condensed into 7 days.

The Burningman could be pearched on a pear tree

Gifts could include golden cock rings, or nipple rings and lactating wet-nurse stations (maids a milking) and we already have plenty of ladies (and men costumed as ladies) dancing. Pipers Piping (Extra Action). It's all there.

But all those birds (geese, turtle doves, french hens) would leave a shit load of moop and poop, they would have to be plucked and have maribou hot glued back on.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:30 am

Ha, ha, Larry Harvey sold your sorry asses to Kim Jong Il and now you're underfed North Korean slave labor. (Without a radiation suit)

Woodrow, Universal and Triumphant

Beer Run

Our Friend the Atom

CBS Afterschool Special presents: Burning Man

Welcome to Furbackistan

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:33 am

The Joy of MOOP

Extreme Self-Dehydration

A World Without JOTS (or, Watch Your Step Buddy)

Burning LEO

Yahoo!

Woodrow · Post by **Woodrow** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:42 am

Fishy wrote:

Woodrow, Universal and Triumphant

Thanks, Fishy!! At last... MY OWN THEME!!!! But, it seems to me that this is what Burning man is about anyway. Isn't it? I saw a lot of guys like me, swingin' in the dust out there! But it's great to be able to stand up and be recognized, although I didn't see too many of us standing up out there. Did you?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:29 am

Personally, I am heart broken that once again Larry has passed on the Federal Land Use in the Arid West theme. Streets were to be named after the important agencies that govern policies: Army Corps of Engineers, BLM, the Park Service, the Forest Service, Buereau of Reclaimation, Federal Highway Administration, Fish and Wildlife Service. . . .
The Man was supposted to stand atop a wooden replica of the Hoover Dam. . . .
But as we all know, nature abhors a vacuum and the whole thing crumbled, so once more we will miss the opportunity to learn more of the wonderful and horrible things that the federal government does for and to us and the west. . .

Back to the usual mythopoetic entries.