Laughing Men

Overheard: The SEAL dudes laughing like crazy idiots. You know how sometimes they have these weird conversations over their helmet intercom. As they were fitting in their new toys, Mink was entertaining our boys with an account of his latest adventure with Cucumber.

It seems that Cucumber's great-aunt passed away and left him an old Bed and Breakfast in Charleston, S.C. So he took Mink with him to check out the place. The B&B was over a hundred years old and everything was too delicate and old for two rough Navy SEAL visitors, Mink said. Ornate stuff everywhere, he added, with dangly things all over that Cucumber's head kept hitting.

There was a snotty old caretaker there and because there were only four bedrooms and three were occupied already, she put them BOTH together in his great-aunt's room and it was painted FUCHSIA. It was called The Grand Pink Room.

"I kid you not, dudes," Mink said. "The brightest, pinkest pink room you can imagine. With ribbons and bows everywhere."

I don't get the joke but somehow the SEALs appear to find that the funniest thing ever. Cucumber was moaning about the nightmare of waking up with the smell of Mink's stinking feet and staring in horror at bright, bright pink around him. "Fucking guy's snoring next to me. On a huge bed with dangly netting stuff," he complained. "And oh, cherubs painted on the ceiling staring down. My great-aunt must have been crazier than I remember."

Mink said Cucumber had turned a fuchsia shade himself when they both walked out of the bedroom together and bumped into the other couples who were there, especially when the snotty housekeeper introduced them as the new owner, "Mr. Cucumber and his male friend."

That's when the whole SEAL team collapsed into male hysterics. There's no understanding human funniness.