In which the Res has no sense of humor

So the spouse nagged me into getting a Facebook account. (Don't ask.) And after a month or so of getting pieces of flair, hating Mondays, and having mud-pies thrown at me by people I vaguely remember from high school, I thought, "Well, hey. LJ people sometimes talk about books. Maybe I'll get a conversation started about books."

So I change my status to: "Res's Real Name is reading 'Fire and Hemlock' by Diana Wynne Jones."

Instantly I get a comment from my mall-loving cousin saying, "Is that like 'Fire in the Hole'?" and another comment from someone who friended me because she used to have a crush on my brother in the seventies saying, "Is that about a tree that burns down?"

I mean, seriously, people! If I said I was learning about Pakistan, would they think it was hilarious to say, "Is that like packing a suitcase?" How is this wit?