Instead, Lochdale residents joked that "...you had to squint to see it" and the name Squint Lake stuck.

You work hard and under fire most of the night - residents joke that your beeper goes into status epilepticus, with constant seizures - but in the morning your responsibility is lifted.

But there is also the advantage of being highly visible - attracting enough contributions that one resident joked, "We gain 15 pounds at Christmastime."

"We know we live on a rock, but the poor people of Ascension live on a cinder," the residents of St Helena had joked before his departure.

Some residents joke that they will dance in the streets at the first drop of rain, but even a few minutes of rain early one evening this week did not break the dour mood.

Below the Wolf Creek Dam, which holds back the biggest manmade lake east of the Mississippi, residents joke that they are not worried about a breach but sleep in life jackets, just in case.

Older Southside residents joke that the statue of George Washington in Williamsburg Plaza points its rear toward the Southside.

She said that in better times, some lakeside residents had joked about walking across it - which, at its widest point is 2 1/2 miles - simply by stepping from boat to boat.

His hair is cut very close to his scalp, so that, as residents over the years have joked, he might better empathize with the shaved heads of his patients.

One resident, Steve Horvat, joked that he now had beachfront property.