playa names
- tatonka
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playa names
so the name we use here is the one we interduce ourselfs as on the playa?
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Re: playa names
You can if ya want.
I don't have a Playa name yet so I use Bill. I'm pretty sure you can be whom ever you want. I might try some different names......

I don't have a Playa name yet so I use Bill. I'm pretty sure you can be whom ever you want. I might try some different names......

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Re: playa names
good 

" Make me strong , not to be superiour to my brothers , to fight my greatest enemy ..... myself . " Chief Dan George .
We all feel ,We all bleed, We all share the pain of living ,and loss..... we're not so different after all
We all feel ,We all bleed, We all share the pain of living ,and loss..... we're not so different after all
Re: playa names
Wait, we get to choose our own playa name? That's so crazy, it might actually work.
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Re: playa names
I actually didn't make up or choose mine.
Whenever I used to call my friend Phl that lived a few miles away, his wife usually answered. I used to just say "Goddammit... " and she'd say "What the hell!". It became the standard script. She'd yell across the house "Phil, it's 'goddammit' on the phone!"
Then I built a boat... when you are driving a boat, everyone calls you "Captain".
And so it came to be.
Whenever I used to call my friend Phl that lived a few miles away, his wife usually answered. I used to just say "Goddammit... " and she'd say "What the hell!". It became the standard script. She'd yell across the house "Phil, it's 'goddammit' on the phone!"
Then I built a boat... when you are driving a boat, everyone calls you "Captain".
And so it came to be.
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Re: playa names
tatonka has been my online name since 2001 , but my real name is tatooed on my back , so Ill prob just use that.
" Make me strong , not to be superiour to my brothers , to fight my greatest enemy ..... myself . " Chief Dan George .
We all feel ,We all bleed, We all share the pain of living ,and loss..... we're not so different after all
We all feel ,We all bleed, We all share the pain of living ,and loss..... we're not so different after all
Re: playa names
tatonka wrote:so the name we use here is the one we interduce ourselfs as on the playa?
That's what I do. But you can call yourself whatever you want. If you go to the ePlaya Meet & Greet it'll be good to introduce yourself by your ePlaya name if you want to be recognized, but no one can make you do it.

The classic method for acquiring a playa name is for someone else to name you during something memorable, but there's no reason you can't choose one, or use one you already use.
I'm going to introduce myself at least once this year by Junglesmack's Grandma's cat's name:
Honey Precious Baby DAMMIT.
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Re: playa names
If you're in a camp, and your camp communicates via facebook, your playa name will very likely be whatever name that is on your facebook profile, which is most likely to be your default world name - or given name. I don't really care to get into some debate about what is default, etc.
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Re: playa names
I generally go by "hey you" on the playa.
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Dammit. Is "hey asshole" taken?
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Re: playa names
As others have said, use what you like. Some people go by their default/given name. Others are given nicknames by campmates or friends either on or off the playa, and still others pick their own. Whatever works for you and makes you happy, though of course sometimes you go out there with an idea of what you'll be called only to find some completely other thing happens. The playa's funny like that 

Re: playa names
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I was called Dirk Mahogany, Third Eye for a while back in the 70's...hated it. (long story).
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mgb327 wrote:I was called Dirk Mahogany, Third Eye for a while back in the 70's...hated it. (long story).
I don't care what you call me so long as...it's not what they used to call me in school...They used to call me Piggy
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Piggy it is, then



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Captain Goddammit wrote:I actually didn't make up or choose mine.
Whenever I used to call my friend Phl that lived a few miles away, his wife usually answered. I used to just say "Goddammit... " and she'd say "What the hell!". It became the standard script. She'd yell across the house "Phil, it's 'goddammit' on the phone!"
Then I built a boat... when you are driving a boat, everyone calls you "Captain".
And so it came to be.
He and his boat are also known as "Ugly"
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BBadger wrote:Dammit. Is "hey asshole" taken?
It is now.
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Re: playa names
first of all, it's pronounced
(Ash-ole-ay) with an Accent on the e, french style.
(Ash-ole-ay) with an Accent on the e, french style.
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Re: playa names
Seems to me it would be hard to say all the time.
Although, it's written on my arm, so maybe I just have to come up with an introduction where I let people read it and thus I don't have to keep repeating one seven one of three four eight or one hundred seventy one out of three hundred and forty eight or whichever other jumbled iteration comes out of my mouth... Probably some kind of litmus test for how BORG vs. Art I'm feeling at the moment.
Although, it's written on my arm, so maybe I just have to come up with an introduction where I let people read it and thus I don't have to keep repeating one seven one of three four eight or one hundred seventy one out of three hundred and forty eight or whichever other jumbled iteration comes out of my mouth... Probably some kind of litmus test for how BORG vs. Art I'm feeling at the moment.
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Re: playa names
171/348 wrote:Seems to me it would be hard to say all the time.
Although, it's written on my arm, so maybe I just have to come up with an introduction where I let people read it and thus I don't have to keep repeating one seven one of three four eight or one hundred seventy one out of three hundred and forty eight or whichever other jumbled iteration comes out of my mouth... Probably some kind of litmus test for how BORG vs. Art I'm feeling at the moment.
Could also go with "Almost Half"
So, what is the 171/348 stand for?
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Re: playa names
Right, we don't need full precision. Since there are only 50k-60k people out there, precision to the hundred-thousandths should be fine. "0.49138" rolls off the tongue pretty well.
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You'd raise a few more questions with "Fred Garvin, Female Prostitute"
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maladroit wrote:You'd raise a few more questions with "Fred Garvin, Female Prostitute"
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I suppose it does answer more than it leaves unanswered.
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Re: playa names
tatonka wrote:tatonka has been my online name since 2001 , but my real name is tatooed on my back , so Ill prob just use that.
You'll never be anything else except Tatonka to me..."Tat"..."Tonka"..."Bison"...Bi-Son"...the possibilities are endless...
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