Ouch! At least get waxed first … you’ll need a smoke after that!
And, most sadly, they only get one of those done, and only the women…
How much lead time do the contestant get? How long between the time they are told they are going on the show and when they get dumped in the jungle?
Maralyn “Mad Dog” Hershey, on the Outback season, had to quit smoking for the show and complained about it on several occasions.
And the one I see several people apparently skipped - go out and spend a night in the woods.
But they sure do get their teeth whiten before the show.
NO!!
Please- no. Nonononononono. This is the SDMB, not that other site where all they do is make up stupid in-jokes and snark. We deal in the facts here, sport.
So- please no stupid in-joke nicknames. Sure, we’ll have nicknames- but they have to come from this Survivor- not some other show or other Survivor.
Let that other board revel in their snarkyness and “in-ness”. Please- let’s do things the SDMB way here, not copy-cat another board. Especially an inferior board, OK?
I mean- if you want to do things their way- why not post there? Here- we do things the SDMB way, we don’t need to copy-cat some other board.
I gotta side with DrDeth on this one.
Some of the nicknames in the last round of Survivor left me scratching my head.
Howlie - Good name for a howler monkey.
Zippy the Hidden Immunity Idol - What the hell?
Arnold (I think) the Regular Immunity Idol - Double what the hell?
Can’t we just call things what they’re really named and if a (good) nickname is born of honest to god conversation we start using it?
I explained where the nicknames Zippy and Earnest came from here, but to sum up, I appropriated the nicknames from a Dave Barry column about his dogs. If the nickname Zippy hadn’t stuck, I wouldn’t have kept using it. I’ll take the blame for starting it, but I assure you I wasn’t alone in using it. And I definitely wasn’t trying to be like any other boards. I was sarcastic and snarky well before I knew what that board was (or what “snark” even was, really).
“Janu Island” isn’t so much an in-joke nickname as it a factual reference to the Palau season and the fact that Janu had to spend a night alone on an island when she lost a Reward Challenge. The genesis of the Exile Island twist (among others) is discussed, factually, at some length in this article.
And please don’t call me “sport.” Please.
But I think the good Doctor’s point is that those nicknames (and others) are seemingly pulled out of thin air by someone trying to be cute. What connection does an article about Dave Barry’s dogs have to do with Survivor? Nothing. And from your own link, you just up and decided that’s what we should call these things.
Admittedly, Zippy is a great nickname and I got to think of the little immunity idol like that myself. But seriously, what the hell was Earnest? That one fell flat and I vaguely remember some people still trying to use it long after it was rejected.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that nicknames should be snappy and come naturally. You can’t just create a nickname out of thin air. And some stuff just doesn’t work.
Janu Island for Exile Island, whatever for? Just call Exile Island. Loser Lodge works for the place bootees go because it’s different from the real term. Janu Island sounds exactly the same.
So why don’t we wait for the season to progress for nicknames to happen naturally. Don’t worry, they’ll come.
I still like the Ambers and the Kens as nicknames, dammit…
Kens, Ambers, AstroDan, YogaDan, Bobby Dee Williams… I like them and plan to use them liberally. Anyone who wants to dictate how enjoy survivor and be the arbiter of appropriate nicknames can set up camp in the pit and wait for me there.
No, I “up and decided” that’s what I would call those things. I specifically said that’s what I would be calling them. I don’t care what anyone else calls them. Ren and Stimpy, or Steve and Edie, or nothing, or whatever. I called them Earnest and Zippy because when I saw that episode, the first thing that popped into my mind was, “Ooooh, look! A large main immunity idol, and a small emergency backup idol! Like Earnest and Zippy!” My mind works that way, so for me it was an organic thought process – I almost always think in non-sequiturs. Other people did not necessarily make that connection. So what? I doesn’t affect my appreciation of the show at all, or of our discussions here. I happen to be one of those people who gives nicknames to everything. My computer has a nickname. So do my cigarette lighter and my favorite pen. I’m not actively trying to be “cute.” Feel free to ignore me. I’m used to it.
Because in my mind, the very idea of an exile island is directly related Janu’s exile by herself on an island back in Palau. Lots of people – not just me – have been referring to it as “Janu Island” since the location and concept reveals (see post #2 in this thread, for starters). You don’t have to refer to it as Janu Island if you don’t want to. Nobody’s really going to care much.
I’d rather not, you’re like the best Survivor commentator there is.
I don’t want to fight. I just think some of these nicknames are dumb and that the relentless pursuit of new nicknames is really annoying. I honestly hope none of them catch on and we can just call things by their real names.
But I’m sorry if I upset you.
At least, if you do use the nicknames, update us every so often as to who they are. If a person happens to miss the ground floor launch of the name, it can be hard to figure out who is who.
Count me in, too. As much as I hate to disagree with my potential Amazing Race teammate rockle 
, I agree on keeping the nicknames to a minimum. That’s one thing I really hate about TWoP - the freaking insistance on nicknames.
Again, I agree.
Howlie was good, Zippy was kinda funny, Arnold was just dumb.
Janu Island… I don’t care for it. It’s Exile Island. Sorry.
Let any nicknames come naturally, like “Weevils” on TAR. Their name was Weaver and they were Evil, so they became the Weevils.
It’s always good when Survivor is on again!!
Anyone have ideas about what the clue was about the idol? I wonder if anyone will be able to make fire on Exile Island. I’ve always said that if I ever got on Survivor, I’d be a world class fire-maker before I left home. THere’s gotta be some sure fire ways, pardon the pun.
Man, that astronaut guy is pale. That one shot of him and his homies had him standing out like a ghost. Yikes!
Anyone know what the age cutoff was?
LumberJill was pretty damn annoying. Good ridance, although the older gals might have some trouble competing now. Smoker-dude is very irritating. He strikes me as a drama queen. Suck it up, bubba, and play the game.
I would never have guesssed RuthMarie is 48. Damn, what did she look like at 28??? Samarai guy is going to get his ass voted off. First rule of Survivor-- don’t be a jerk.
Let the games begin!! Thursdays have meaning again!
I didn’t know that’s how that name came up. I thought it was after something like Boll Weevil, since they were from the South, or maybe they just liked Brooke Benton.
Hear hear!!!
Count me in on rockle’s side. I too like the nicknames (love Janu Island), so you go,girl! Don’t let these buzzkills ruin our good time!
As far as everything else, it’s pretty much been covered.
I’ll admit that the opposition to the nicknames struck me badly first thing, as well. But can we please not turn this into an “us vs. them” thing? Alienating a goodly portion of the Doper Survivor fans who read these threads over this isn’t a very good idea. Bitterness and bad blood are going to ruin our season a hell of a lot faster than someone asking for fewer (apparently) irrelevant nicknames.