Running gags: the Men's-Movement parody, the Head Master kibitz, the ignored jokes

texture · STANDING

• When: STANDING — habitual across the YDAU fall
• What: Coyle's stepdad went to men's-issues / Men's-Movement-type meetings, and Coyle likes to mimic and parody them during drills, poking his racquet's grip out between his legs and yelling "Nurture this! Honor getting in touch with this!" With Axford he runs a standing tease on Schacht — that they've spotted Schacht's discontinued Head Master racquets for sale at a flea market someplace and he'd better get down there quick. And he is the table's undiscouraged teller of jokes nobody laughs at (the dated instance is event 10). Comic-relief texture, all of it genial and none of it land-anywhere.