Limited atonement
Ian Carmichael / 28th November 2004
Reuters reported last Friday that the Travelodge Hotel Chain in London is offering couples a free night's accomodation over Christmas.
The only catch is that your names must be ‘Mary’ and ‘Joseph’.
The offer is to make up for a previous occasion when accomodation was extremely short—no, not at the Bethlehem Travelodge 2 millennia ago, but apparently a shortage of accomodation in London for Christmas Eve four years ago.