What is wrong with you people

Tartarus does a fund-raiser every December. Previous years, this has been called Wish Stars. We have a bulletin board that gets covered in paper stars. Patrons purchase a star, thereby fulfilling a wish. Cheesy, sure. But it all makes a kind of sense.

Not this year. Of course not. This year Turtle took over (Wish Stars always used to be Spoof's responsibility). Turtle thought stars were confusing. "Let's do presents and ornaments," said Turtle. "Presents for one department, ornaments for the other. Much better than stars."

Yeah. Okay. Whatever you say.

We'd like to pause the story here to inform you that Tartarus has always been under strict instructions not to be holiday specific. No holiday greetings for this crew. No special holiday displays. Certainly nothing Christmas. Had Spoof or Speck suggested this change it would have resulted in a sound scolding. Turtle on the other hand was praised for this "innovative" idea.

Just before Thanksgiving Turtle and Spoof were put to work putting up the bulletin board. As they posted it they had a discussion about what to call this new version of the fund raiser. "We can't call it Wish Stars anymore," said Spoof. "They aren't stars."

"Oh, but wish ornaments and presents is too long," said Turtle. "Hmmmm. I suppose we could call it Wish Stars With New Shapes."

And no amount of arguing could convince Turtle that was  a bad idea. In fact, everyone but Spoof and Speck praised this new name. We are dumbstruck.