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[ Pyrite ]

PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:46 pm
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I saw this a few weekends ago when my friend (okay, bootycall) came to visit me. This is an actual, legitimate three-star hotel's welcome letter. It cracks me up because of the mentality behind a mistake like this.

Dear Moneybag: Opps, we mean patron.


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Pyrite
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:25 am
Probably should be Valued. Slightly amusing, I guess.  

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Gachetemas

PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:39 pm
Ohhh... I thought it said "Quest." Was I confused. Dern them fancy G's!  
PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:10 am
I must be a bit slow on the uptake, because I don't see any error.  

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:28 pm
Maybe they're just being really open about their capitalist nature. But, whatever their intentions, I am a valuable guest; especially if you consider the value of my organs on the black market.

... Although, if Gachetemas was correct and it did say "quest" and not "guest" then the valuable part might make more sense; though why you would write a letter to your quests instead of just completing them and turning them in I'll never know.  
PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:46 pm
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I must be a bit slow on the uptake, because I don't see any error.
Valuable Guest. IE, the guest means $$$ to the writers of the letter. No error, just funny word-choice.  

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[ Pyrite ]

PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:03 pm
DarkElf27
Valuable Guest. IE, the guest means $$$ to the writers of the letter. No error, just funny word-choice.
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Oh my god, someone gets it! A funny word choice, hence the title of the thread!

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 2:31 pm
Pyrite's drunken signature sheep and I got together, knocked a few back, and decided that we agree: It is a funny word choice.

We also agreed that female sheep look a lot prettier after their sheared; that things are way to expensive these days; and that "dude, you're a really great guy and...I love you, man. No, I mean it, I love you. You're really great and I love you."

We may have agreed on other things, but when you wake up in a field, covered in mud, next to a hungover sheep you don't really spend much time saying "what happened last night" so much as you just start running down the street screaming and hoping to outrun the memories.

Ah, good times.  

[Mammon]


d-a-r-k-s-h-y

PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:08 pm
I will admit I was amused.  
PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:16 pm
That's about as close as you can get to truth in advertising.  

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:11 pm
Cackles insanely.  
PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:28 pm
HA HA HA HA HA That was hilarious.  

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:53 am
*falls to the floor, shrieking with laughter*  
PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 7:05 pm
Maybe the guests give good tips.  

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:29 pm
Vadatajs
Maybe the guests give good tips.


And maybe the back alley "doctors" in Tijana don't leave rusty surgical instruments inside you (not that I've ever had any experience with back alley Tijuana doctors *Cough, cough.*).

I'm sorry Vadatajs, but I just don't think that's likely. However, maybe if you were counting on the smoking guests (that's in cigarette terms, not attractiveness ones) to drop smoldering ashes on the bed, light themselves on fire, burn to death in their sleep, leave a charred corpse for you to loot and you called that a "tip" then, yeah, I guess some guests would leave good tips.

Come to think of it, your position on whether a corpse still needs to be treated as a person or is just an object might make you refer to dead guests as valuable since they are only objects and no longer people. Hmm, that just might explain it; the hotel said valuable since they are hoping that all their guests die and that employees can engage in a little extra "cleaning" of the room and the recently deceased guest's pockets. [ Pyrite ], you don't happen to know if the hotel offers cyanide nightcaps, do you?  
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