Hello everyone

[Eclipse]

I live in Dallas, and just recently found out about Burning Man. I definitely plan on attending this year. I have one question...what exactly is "playa"?

[Dr. Pyro]

The playa is the desert we set up our city at. It comes from Spanish meaning beach, but the playa is nothing more than an alkali flat, one of the largest expanses of dead flat desert in the Northern Hemisphere. Nothing grows there, nothing survives for long without shelter and water.

Do you really want to go to Burning Man? Trust me, it was better last year.

[Captain Goddammit]

Look here: http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/

[Teo del Fuego]

also, "playa" means someone who says he is interested in a real relationship but in reality has a wife back home and is just looking to score some nookie.

and, Crypto, when I say "nookie" I dont mean that in a gender-demeaning manner.

[I am a sock puppet]

Hi there!

[pinemom]

O crap.


Stand back everyone, Ive got a can of Raid and Im not affraid to use it!

[I am a sock puppet]

i use that stuff for mouthwash, go ahead mom

[theCryptofishist]

Is there a gender demeaning way to say nookie?

[BitterDan]

Playa (pronounced ply-ya)
Western U.S. the sandy, salty, or mud-caked flat floor of a desert basin having interior drainage, usually occupied by a shallow lake during or after prolonged, heavy rains.

[wedeliver]

Don't listen to a thing posted above. Playa, a place to play a.... largest flat expanse near where I live.

[wedeliver]

The playa is the desert we set up our city at. It comes from Spanish meaning beach, but the playa is nothing more than an alkali flat, one of the largest expanses of dead flat desert in the Northern Hemisphere. Nothing grows there, nothing survives for long without shelter and water.

Do you really want to go to Burning Man? Trust me, it was better last year.

Yeah, shit grows there. those little wire plants with flag flowers, all over the friggen place. (I didn't say fag flowers)