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House Party

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Buy Mode

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Bar - Wet - Saloon#

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bars3.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Saloon= Cowboy liquor bar

Bar - Wet - Neon#

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bars3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Whether Vain is wod joke as it sounds like Weather Vane but implies possible vanity (vain) "chill out" is slang for "relax"

Bookcases3.iff#

Bookshelf - Rave#

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Bookcases3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Nial Stiik is word koe on "Nihilistic"

Bookshelf - Western#

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Bookcases3.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Ornery is cowboy-western slang for "nasty and mean"

BubbleMaker.iff#

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BubbleMaker.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Do not make any reference to tobacco, hookahs or smoking.

BuffetTable.iff#

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BuffetTable.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Should mention caterer. Exclusive, fine dining talk.

Campfire_SP.iff#

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Campfire_SP.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|"KampRite" is joke on Camp Right…misspelled to sound folksy

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Chair - Living Room - Barrel#

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ChairsLR3.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Redneck= country person, farmer, uneducated

Chair - Living Room - Cow#

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ChairsLR3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|B Hynde is word joke on "behind" as in he is caught in the past.

Chair - Living Room - Furry#

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ChairsLR3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Needs to rhyme like silly children's TV show song.

Chair - Living Room - Hay Bale#

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ChairsLR3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|"What the hay" is a joke on "what the hey?" Cowboy colloquial expression of surprise.

counters3.iff#

Counter - Kitchen - Beach#

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counters3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Tanya Brown is word joke on "Tan you brown"…what happens to people on vacation.

Counter - Kitchen - Country#

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counters3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Back Forty is a term for back 40 acres of a ranch land. Tone is neighborly craftsman talk.

CounterWall.iff#

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CounterWall.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Science + stone = "scienstone"

DanceCage.iff#

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DanceCage.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|"Go-go" was a type of free-spirited improvisational dance in the 1960's

DanceFloor.iff#

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DanceFloor.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Song just needs to ryme and be about shaking your butt. "Booty" is slang for butt.

DiningChairs3.iff#

Chair - Dining - Bamboo#

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DiningChairs3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|sensible sounding

DiningTable2x1.iff#

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DiningTable2x1.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Hyperactive ad copy voice.

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DJBooth.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|"needle thrasher" and "platter-spinner"=slang for turn table Disk Jockey. "Itching to scratch" is a take off on old expression "Nothing worse than an itch you can't scratch."

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LampHula.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: "Hip" means very cool but is also a joke as it refers to a hula dancer's hips.

LampsWall3.iff#

Lamp - Wall - Neon#

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LampsWall3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: "meta-photology" = complete bullshit art and light theory.

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MechanicalBull.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Chaps are Cowboy pants for outdoors.

paintings3.iff#

Painting - Bamboo Wall Unit#

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STR#301 - Dialog prim string set

1

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Painting - Black Light#

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paintings3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|"post-sampling fusion of acoustic English blues and techtonica spaz-core." is just music business jargon all fake words…just sounds complex and theoretical

Painting - Country - Long Horn Antlers#

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paintings3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Texas Longhorn is a type of cattle.

Painting - Neon#

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paintings3.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Ed G Poers is word joke on "edgy powers".

Painting - Tiki Mask#

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paintings3.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|(hacked apart the Lords prayer from thr Samoan)those who trespass against us.Give us this day the power and the glory, Forever and ever !

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STR#301 - Dialog prim string set

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QueueRopes.iff#

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QueueRopes.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: RB Turr is word joke on "arbiter." Door people at clubs often can make or break fashion trends. Needs to sound a bit snooty.

Sculptures3.iff#

Sculptures - Animating Neon#

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Sculptures3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Gytinavay is word joke on "getting away" as in she is getting away with bullshiting about her art.

Sculptures - Chainsaw#

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Sculptures3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|On Oui is joke on word "ennui" implying gallery is totally boring. Implies absolutely temporary artistic taste.

Sculptures - Tki Totem#

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Sculptures3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Maki Wopi is word joke on "make whoopie" which is old slang for having sex.

Sculptures - WagonWheel#

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Sculptures3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Ecstatic wasting of historical treasures implied.

ShowerTiki.iff#

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ShowerTiki.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|A "Surf Off" is a surfing competition.

sinks3.iff#

Sink - Country#

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sinks3.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|O.D Fogey is word joke on "Old Fogey" and expression for an obnoxious old-timer. Speech is country-style dialect.

Sofas3.iff#

Sofa - Bamboo#

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Sofas3.iff

Developer Note

Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Tropi-Cane is hybrid word made of "tropical" and "cane".

Sofa - Cow#

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Sofas3.iff

Developer Note

Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Talk about sofa in terms of being a carnivore."'Till the cows come home" = cowboy expression for a "a long time"

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StereoSpeakers.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: These speakers play whatever music is currently selected on the stereo or DJ Booth

TablesEnd4.iff#

Table - End - Country 1#

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TablesEnd4.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Cattle drive reenactment is a joke about historical groups that obsessively reproduce Civil War scenarios in costume.

Toilets3.iff#

Toilet - Country#

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Toilets3.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Boogs Commode Shootout joke on famous "Shootout at the OK corral"

Build Mode

Doors3_SP.iff#

Door - Mens Room#

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Doors3_SP.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: SekDetek is combo of words "sex" and "detect"

Door - Bars#

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Doors3_SP.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: "pre-nuptial agreement" is a contract between man and wife before marriage, typically made by the rich, strategic and paranoid. Prevent + technological = "PrevenTek". Matches Barred Window.

Doors4.iff#

Door - Bamboo#

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Doors4.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Romantic sounding.

Door - Saloon#

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Doors4.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Saloon= Cowboy liquor bar. Doors sound like they are salvaged.

Door - Western#

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Doors4.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Deep Green is an architectural movement incorporating total recycling of materials.

Door - Bamboo Beaded#

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Doors4.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Implies buyer is super-lazy and casual.

fences.iff#

Fence - Bamboo#

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fences.iff

Developer Note

Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|otes: Baboon Beach Safari is reference to failed and controversial theme park "Lion Country Safari." BaBeast is word joke combining "baboon" and "beast".

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fences.iff

Developer Note

Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Baboon Beach Safari is reference to failed and controversial theme park "Lion Country Safari." BaBeast is word joke combining "baboon" and "beast".

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Shrub - Bamboo#

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Shrubs2.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Sounds romantic-mystical

stair3.iff#

Stair - Bamboo#

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stair3.iff

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Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Sounds mystical.

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Teleporter - Single Player#

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Teleporter_SP.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Heisenberg was a teleportation theorist. Keep name.

trees2.iff#

Tree - Cactus#

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trees2.iff

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Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Keep same cactus name

Tree - Palm#

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trees2.iff

Developer Note

Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Beverlyhillsei is a joke on exclusive upper-middle class LA neighborhood "Beverly Hills" Description implies corruption and self-interest.

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Window - Bar#

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Windows3.iff

Developer Note

Description

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Notes: Prevent + technological = "PrevenTek". Matches Barred Door.

windows4.iff#

Window - Bamboo#

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windows4.iff

Developer Note

Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|Mr Monkey is afake kiddie TV show

Window - Warehouse#

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windows4.iff

Developer Note

Name

style="background-color:#FFFFBF;color:#4D4D4D|FenestraKing is word joke on "fenestration" combined with "king"