IS there anything more awkward when someone must have had killed with a joke with some other crowd, but then meets up with another group that is more sophisticated, (the group that you are a part of, since obviously Lake readers are smart). The person tries it once and it gets a few nods of acknowledgement. Then, though, like Hercules rolling up the ball or some other metaphor for persistance, they keep trying it, thinking that the people are not seeing the genius in the joke, when really the joke just wasn't that clever.

To me one of the unfunniest things in the world, more unfunny than death of Presidents, disease, unrhyming couplets and leafblowers with their motor burned out is when someone makes the obvious joke instesad of seising that moment to put some spin on the backhand or English on the cue ball to make the more interesting play.

What incident in particular am I referring to, well there are too many to name...