It’s not a good sign when the consensus is that maybe the poster was making a joke.
To clarify, I’d noticed that our NBA All Star, Brandon Ingram, weighed about as much as these small football recruits but was a foot taller. So I changed 6’9 to 5’9”, and bingo, instant joke.
Though, by “instant,” I mean I did do my research. Not to make it funnier but to ramble through the internet looking for his accurate height and weight. Because that’s the way I meaningfully spend the limited days I have on this planet, looking up heights of athletes. Brandon is indeed listed as an NBA 6’7” and his weight was more like 185 in hs, but I decided to stick with the weight of the football recruit and just add a foot. Since that made the joke even more hilarious.
My humor has, incidentally, been affected by 4 months by myself with a 10 yr old in a NYC apartment. She, incidentally, told me last spring that there was one big difference between her main teacher and me. And that difference was that Mr. P is funny, and I think I’m funny. And I don’t blame this clang on covid—I’d have made the same “joke” a year ago. I stand fully by this effort, and am ready to fall on my humor sword and fall back on my day job.