A saved Facebook post and comments
(I’m saving some Facebook posts here, in preparation for the likelhood that Facebook will become unusable in the near future. It looks like the best way is to post here first and link to Facebook afterwards, since copyijng stuff from Facebook takes a lot of time and care.)
Feb 14, 2018 8:42 am
Denise asked me this morning if I wanted to use the toaster. I said I didn’t because toaster rhymes with ghoster, and that is too scary.
After a few moments’ silence, I pointed out that she hadn’t challenged the premise of my objection. “‘Ghoster’ isn’t a word”, I pointed out.
“But it could be a word,” she noted.
So now “ghoster ” is a word… its definition is “a contractor who provides ghosts to haunt a house that has hitherto not experienced enough death and tragedy to warrant one.”
Comments:
James L. Giddings I hadn’t encountered that word before. That kind of ghoster is not really scary, just off-putting. 
Jennifer Bernet You haven’t been dating for a while. 
😄. It’s actually not new, just the name.
Patrice la Mariana Hope you writing lots of stories
Nicky Bendix In music we have ghost notes – it’s far less scary than it sounds, though…
Nicky Bendix Maybe a Ghoster could be a jar that contains ghost notes? Then you could grab a few when you needed them? Quite handy, actually 
James L. Giddings I wonder if a ghoster could find ghosts to scare away all the flying squirrels in our attic. It would take a special kind of ghost to scare these squirrels, who don’t even seem to have a healthy fear of cats
Lee Johnson So ghoster is the opposite of a Ghost Buster?
Carolyn Simon I love it! Such a civilized literary marital exchange. Rather like Jane Austen.
Gail DuFresne Flying squirrel are so cute I have a pair living in an old oak tree near my house. These ones look like sugar gliders though
Kim Guy As an inveterate inventor of words, I heartily endorse this spooktacular new one.
