playa names

[tatonka]

so the name we use here is the one we interduce ourselfs as on the playa?

[lemur]

you can be whomever you want whenever you want

[TT120]

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......

[tatonka]

good

[maladroit]

Wait, we get to choose our own playa name? That's so crazy, it might actually work.

[Captain Goddammit]

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.

[tatonka]

tatonka has been my online name since 2001 , but my real name is tatooed on my back , so Ill prob just use that.

[Savannah]

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.

[CornMan]

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.

[BBadger]

I generally go by "hey you" on the playa.

[lemur]

there is a 'hey you' in my camp.

[BBadger]

Dammit. Is "hey asshole" taken?

[trilobyte]

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

[maladroit]

I want Jag Robotson, Ninja Attorney

[mgb327]

I was called Dirk Mahogany, Third Eye for a while back in the 70's...hated it. (long story).

[Turtleburp]

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

[unjonharley]

Piggy it is, then

[unjonharley]

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"

[Dr. Pyro]

Dammit. Is "hey asshole" taken?

It is now.

[FIGJAM]

Savory Asshole!!!

[Simon of the Playa]

first of all, it's pronounced

(Ash-ole-ay) with an Accent on the e, french style.

[Captain Goddammit]

Founder of the American Select Society for Helping Others Less Enlightened

[171/348]

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.

[illy dilly]

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?

[maladroit]

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.

[Krokodyle]

Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute.

Ask your parents...

[maladroit]

You'd raise a few more questions with "Fred Garvin, Female Prostitute"

[theCryptofishist]

You'd raise a few more questions with "Fred Garvin, Female Prostitute"

It is the 21st century. No one will blink an eye.



Except in regard to commerce, of course.

[maladroit]

I suppose it does answer more than it leaves unanswered.

[dragonpilot]

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...