Supper at the best table: the Canadian-girls joke nobody wants

texture · 11 Nov YDAU, 1810h

• When: 11 November YDAU, 1810h — supper at the top upperclassmen's table
• What: Over the deadly-serious business of supper, Coyle works his joke in three separate passes — surely they've all heard the one about what do Canadian girls put behind their ears to attract boys; the self-supplied punchline; then, into the general noise, the patient explanation that the idea is that Nuck girls can only attract guys by being really easy — and is ignored at every pass, John Wayne giving him "not a look." In the table's tally of sexual history, Coyle is filed as "a probable, but reticent."