stair quote

     I hadn't realized that we already had an entry for stairs,
but this one is short enough to tack on anyway.

diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base
index f09fabf97593a5a0cdcdbc9e02e0cf1b99b632d8..1e623e75e70880759d2726584761e342a95e16cf 100644 (file)
--- a/dat/data.base
+++ b/dat/data.base
@@ -3568,7 +3568,7 @@ javelin
        protects its user from all life draining attacks, and
        additionally gives the wielder the power of regeneration.
        When invoked it performs healing magic.
-staircase*
+stair*
        Up he went -- very quickly at first -- then more slowly -- then
        in a little while even more slowly than that -- and finally,
        after many minutes of climbing up the endless stairway, one
@@ -3584,6 +3584,11 @@ staircase*
        "Infinity is a dreadfully poor place.  They can never manage to
        make ends meet."
                [ The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster ]
+
+       Dr. Ray Stantz: Hey, where do those stairs go?
+       Dr. Peter Venkman: They go up.
+               [ Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman,
+                 written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis ]
 ~statue trap
 statue*
        Then at last he began to wonder why the lion was standing so