> Good point. It's like when I say something at work in a normal, even voice that is intended to be funny and everyone looks at me horrified. They don't expect it from me, so when I do it everyone just stares, thinking whatever I am joking about is serious. I'm fond of deadpan humor, but when I try it I tend to cause people's hearts to skip beats.

I know that feeling. One time, before a concert, a friend of mine asked if I had cleaned my trombone, and I told her I hadn't because I ran out of steel wool. She almost died.

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