In the post holiday season, there were a number of thank you cards for the Tartarus staff to sign. We were startled to find the following message in a card for Comfort Inn: "Thanks for being a great hostage!"
"Umm, what's this all about," said Spoof.
"You remember," said Plague. "Comfort Inn invited us to that party at her house."
"You mean host," said Spoof.
"No," said Plague. "A person who hosts a party is a hostage (pronouncing it 'hoh-stage')."
And no matter what we we said, we could not convince Plague she was wrong. Especially with Mr. Ed agreeing with the pronunciation.
Since neither of us was at the party in question, we can only assume it looked something like this:
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