Readers are looking for new ways to describe the housing bubble. "WE NEED NEW CLICHES!"

"I recently suggested: ….death spiral.

Betamax replied with: I like the term 'cascade failure,' but death spiral works too.

I did my best Steve Martin with:

Alternative: Heterodyned Hell Hole?

Technical: Event Horizon?

Literature: Restaurant at the End of the Universe? Death on Denial?

Musical: Highway to HELOC? Saved by Zero?

Political: Giant Sucking Sound?

"There’s a lot more talented people out there. We need more catch phrases."

Another said, "A name for the category of sellers who refuse to see the obvious fact that nobody wants to pay their ridiculous price:"

'Not-giving-it-awayers'

"They are adamant that their price is right, and if the agent would just advertise more, they’d probably find the buyer."

"P.S. I could spend a million dollars on advertising every week, but if the price ain’t right, it isn’t going to sell."

And another replied, "I’ve been using the term 'bubble bitch' instead of FB’er as I feel that the mental image of a underwater borrower with some bankers popsicle buried up his backside for the next 20 years (and every day is another thrust) more fully describes that situation (and it rhymes)."