diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base
index f09fabf97..1e623e75e 100644
--- 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