The Modern Phoenix Dictionary

[JC]

Nutswinger: A name used commonly on message boards when one member is giving another member an uncomfortable, creepy amount of respect in a post or series of posts. On this board- this member is usually Mr. Natural, and almost all of us are guilty at one time or another.

ie: (follows a Mr. Natural post) yeah, yeah, ..... eee-EEE-eeee yeah, funny, funny!! YOU'RE THE FRIGGIN KING! YYEEEAAAHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!
(giggles, giggles, Louder giggles) You're the funniest!! Tell me another funny!

(Nutswinger)

The previous post is another good example of nut swinging on my part.

[MissMelissa]

Ben and Melissa-
Verb describing the intense Modern rennovation process in taking an existing bland, drab home and transforming it into blissful visual eye-candy. The name stems from the Modern Phoenix members who are responsible for <a href="http://www.modernphoenix.net/allison1.htm" target="blank">this:</a>

ie: "Hey congratulations there kid! -You just bought a pile of shit- good job!"
(answers) "Yeah, while wait til I Ben and Melissa this son' bitch and then come talking your trash!"

Whoa.. I almost got smacked up side the head with your nuts!
j/k.. that was very kind of you
~Melissa

[Mr. Natural]

Hater 'hAt r

A person that simply cannot be happy for another person. They will instead make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.

Hating, the result of being a hater, is not mere jealousy. The hater does not really want to be the person he or she hates. Hating involves knocking somone else down a notch so that the hater can secretly feel better about himself/herself.

1. Susan: You know, Kevin is doing very well. He just bought a house in Marlen Grove.

Jane (hater): Kevin only bought the place because he read about it in a magazine; besides, he's still wearing UGG boots

2. They see me rollin'
They hatin'
Patrollin'
And tryin to catch me ridin dirty

[MissMelissa]

Denial:
Denial is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person faced with a fact that is uncomfortable or painful to accept rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether (simple denial), admit the fact but deny its seriousness (minimization) or admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility (transference).

1. Jane: Kevin is in denial that there are pedophiles near his home. I refer to him as the King of De-Nile. Boo-ya!

[MrX]

Architecture Enemies:

Mophos who try to disguise their fondness of one another with passive aggressive bickering. Sometimes referred to as MoFoes.

haver:

haters who could be lovers

[Haverphile]

If it's any consolation, all the hot tubs in Marlen Grove are cold.




with a little help from Ice T

[PixelPixie]

Obscur-a-scaping
n.

Shrubbery or cacti that blind the curbside viewer with distracting, gangly lines, thereby obscuring the clean lines of the home behind it. Only Modern Goggles (tm) with the clone stamp plug-in can virtually remove this phenomenon without permanent damage to the property.



or: http://armlslistings.marketlinx.com/Sea ... opType=RES

"Sure, that obscur-a-scaping represents twenty years of growth, but it's running interference through the middle of the elevation!"

[Mr. Natural]

R.I.P. Mr. Grapefruit.

[Circa50]

Home-icide –noun

The act of killing architecture. It can also refer to a person who has committed
such an act, though this use is rare in modern English. Although home-icide is not necessarily
illegal, some jurisdictions use the word to indicate the unlawful killing of a home.

Aslo know as Haver-side and Beadle-side.

[Hip Homes]

fauxdobe

v. The act of cutting eaves off of an innocent '50s ranch and adding parapet walls and stucco, usually accompanied by wrought iron and howling coyote silhouettes.

n. The end result of above process.

[Hip Homes]

Modern-ize

v. The act of incorporating Modern design cues in a structure not intrinsically Modern. Not to be confused with modernizing (see home-icide definition above).

[PixelPixie]

LowPro MoPho

A Low Profile Modern Phoenix member (or unregistered member).


That LoPro MoPho has been to all three home tours! Hardcore!

or

That LoPro MoPho keeps showing up to the open houses. I wonder who they are?

[Bauhaus_Bearhawke]

Is that a real shirt or a photochop?

I loooove it!

[PixelPixie]

Ikeaitis
eye-kee-eye-tus

The muscle strain that accompanies a several-day session of assembling Ikea cabinetry. Not the allen-wrench variety of wrist fatigue from screwing up the Wimpl side table, but core muscle and raw-at-the-thumbs soreness that comes from installing their heavy-as-a-bull cabinets.

I can't go golfing this weekend, I have an acute case of Ikeaitis.

[PixelPixie]

Mullet Modern

Historic out front, party in the back

That home is so mullet modern. You wouldn't even suspect it but the backyard is completely off the hook!