The strong, silent type

There's an old joke about a child who never speaks. He cried a bit when he was a baby, but they all do that; once he got over it, he never said a word.

Somewhere around age five, the family was having dinner, and suddenly he spoke up: "Mom, the turkey is dry."

The parents — well, you can pretty well imagine. After they calmed down, Mom asked: "You can talk??"

"Of course I can."

She gave him That Look (you know the one) and asked, "How come you never said anything before?"

"Up to now, everything was okay," he explained.

I'll bet almost anything Drake Esmay knows that joke.

Posted at 8:20 PM to Next Generation