In the Annotated Cul-de-Sac, Thompson makes mention that Lemony Snicket ( remember that name?) and his Series of Unfortunate Events was his inspiration for Oswaldo Twee. Richard Thompson was a genius.
I used to print our church bulletins. One year, we had a number of outreaches at the local, so-called, entertainment district where there is a movie theater, arcade, restaurants etc. Not wanting to write that out each time, I shortened it to ED (“We’ll meet at the ED at 7 pm, blah, blah”). My senior pastor got a kick out of that!
It seems this is a common practice for medical and health facilities where I live; staff sharing. Because of two towns being fairly close together, a lot of places have staff work two days in one office and two or three days at the other. That would get old after awhile , for me at least.
What goes around comes around, it seems.