Clods, judging from most of your posts I'd say you are on the money a lot of the time. I also have a problem with the botulism bit and just the dialog overall. I'm going to try and not be dismissive but explain why I feel this way. Botulism is used incorrectly here and the joke is confusing as people have already said. The "Ah jeez" seems really fan gamey to me. I really hope this isn't the game's intro but judging by everything we've seen I'm guessing this takes place in Belring's theater--it IS definitely near Travis' house--so the game's opening words might just be "Ah jeez." Well, ah jeez. I know everyone around here usually praises the game no matter what, but I'm honestly disappointed in the dialog we've seen. I'm not trying to be harsh, but it seems lazy, random and not very funny. It's just there. The cow bones thing doesn't even make sense. How can BONES look tired? A cow can but not bones. What are the cow groans? Groaning at the bad joke? I guess it's just there for the rhyme but that's not funny. Even in a dry humor sort of way. Jokes should make sense like Clods says. Jokes about dead things being dead aren't really funny, either, just stale. Some of the stuff seems like filler too. Like "Baseball, baseball, hey!" followed by "I don't know." Sounds like the writer doesn't know what to say. You could put any word in there for baseball and it would be the same exact thing. The thing about carrying a piece isn't funny either, just disturbing. Of course an old man HAS to say "dagnabbit" right? What's with all of the sounds? Chh and yahah? Just filler. I don't want to be too negative, but I'm just not sure what we learned from this. Of course they write and edit. I would guess all writers do. The only thing we didn't already know is the actual content of the dialog. Now we do and I really hope the rest is better.