Glossary Of BUUB Terms

The Architect listed each day is Mark Doonan, also known as the Tasmanian Devil

The Batwing - Was a large V-shaped structure that ran the length of the sanctuary ceiling making the room appear dark and squat.

Beer Room - A small room on the north side of the building that had a raised concrete floor and the hookup for a beer cooler when it was a Moose Lodge (the room no longer exists).

BPOC - Building Project Oversight  Committee

Break (Room) Dancers - All the wonderful people who donate food and drink for volunteers. We love them!

The Brick Yard - aka Robben Island  [From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island off Cape Town, South Africa, served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment.  Today it is a World Heritage Site and museum...]

BUB - Butt-Ugly Building - (original name)

BUUB - Beautiful Unitarian Universalist Building (more hopeful name)

The Church - 40th & Donald

De-finning - Separating aluminum fins from copper tubing on air conditioning system.

Dog-Kennel - the dog kennel is the addition up on the roof that will house the HVAC systems

Demolition Task Force and Chop Suey Society - The BUUB volunteers who get together for Chinese Food on Friday nights 5:30PM

The Doorman is Eric Swegles - so named because he has inventoried all the doors stored in the warehouse, removing and cleaning all the hardware and figuring out where the doors can be re-used and whether they will need to be stripped, etc.

El Viejo - Ed Zack - given to him by the Hispanic asbestos removal crew - means "the old man"

Ferrari - The scissor lift aerial scaffolding

First Balcony - The old soffit along the north wall of Room C - old dining room with chandeliers - now gone

Green Grape Groupies - all the volunteers - who eat a pound or more of green grapes a day

Hovercraft - the hanging platform with twelve dangling electrical outlets to power all of the equipment in the woodworking shop in the middle of the sanctuary

Howitzer - The long metal tube controlling the air conditioning in the room behind the kitchen

Lasagna Garden - the east borderline strip with layers of cardboard, newspapers, coffee grounds and leaves to improve the soil.

Michelangelo is Chuck Wagar  - so named after meticulously taping and mudding sheetrock until it was a work of art

Momma's Table - The food table in the kitchen where everyone gathers on break to sit and chat

Moses is Nisco Junkins who portrayed Harriet Tubman "Moses" when the Choir performed "They Call Her Moses" on April 17

Panama Canal - the area on the northeast outside corner being dug up where footings for new construction will go.

Playpen - The box surrounded by orange tape to hold the dirt and gravel dug out of  the Panama Canal

Puzzlemaster - Bob Kaeser who enjoys figuring out how stuff works and how to take it apart safely. (He just happens to also be the Virtuoso of the Forklift.)

The Sandbox - Same thing as the Playpen (see above)

Stalag 13 - Kitchen Attic, accessed through the pantry behind the kitchen by way of pull down stairs.  Chuck Wagar and Judy Sawyer have been installing a floor in the attic for several weeks.

Steve's Club House - the southwest porch that has been weatherized to store wood.

SRT - Scottish Rite Temple

Strippers - The volunteers who are stripping plastic casings off of copper wire - miles and miles of it

Tasmanian Devil - see Architect

The Torpedo - same thing as the Howitzer (see above)

Walden Pond - the area of the concrete floor in the social hall that has been ground and polished.

The Warehouse - 1,000 square feet of open space (now stuffed to the gils) in a building owned by Jerry and Janet Russell donated for our use prior to our move.  It is between 11th & 12th Avenue on Grant.  It is a lifesaver.

Wood Squirrels - People trained to identify types and sizes of boards and can fetch them quickly.