A Night at the B&B

The Smoots tried something new this past weekend while visiting family out of town.  For the first time ever, we stayed at a Bed & Breakfast.  We had a really nice time there, and would highly recommend "The Cozy Afghan" to anyone who has the strange, sudden urge to visit St. Marys, PA.

The accommodations were very quaint, the breakfasts were very tasty, and we even had a fireplace.  Granted, it took a couple phone calls to figure out how to make the fireplace work since I was not interested in accidentally getting my eyebrows burned off, but we finally found the trick to it (turns out, you flip the button to "on").

So anyway, we give the Cozy Afghan our coveted five-star rating, although I suppose it would only be fair to mention that it is run by one of the members of Mrs. Smoot's family.

This experience got me thinking about how people give names to B&Bs.  It seems like they almost always have rather unusual names, presumably meant to sound quaint so that people will be enticed to visit.

I was thinking about creating a web site where people could randomly generate names for their new Bed & Breakfast.  People could visit the page, pay me a large sum of money, and the web site would churn out gems like:

The Fluted Peasant
The Poofy Pillow
The Flatulent Frog
The Crumpled Muffin
The Pickled Nest
The Steaming Bucket of Quaintness
The Hairy Barnacle
The Ornery Hen
The Gilded Truffle (oops... I stole that from a restaurant in The Simpsons)
The Satin Slipper
and of course The Floating Inn of Doom

The possibilities really are endless.