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Facebook has revealed that living among us are otherwise mild-mannered people who possess witty minds and wicked senses of humor.

We searched through recent Facebook status updates by local residents and found three Baton Rougeans adept at cracking wise and keeping friends in stitches.

Susan Hayden: ?the accidental humorist

RocketChix co-founder, engineer, entrepreneur

Susan Hayden doesn’t think she’s funny, especially on Facebook. However, her posts and updates on even the most mundane of activities often elicit dozens of “likes” and replies.

“The funniest stuff is ordinary things about everyday life,” she says.

However unfunny she thinks her stories are—like the ones about being stuck at Starbucks or her dog’s gas problems—even the slightest status update will garner dozens of comments. And she loves sharing those moments with friends.

Some recent beauties:

On fashion: “North Face fleece pants …. it’s like wearing kittens.”

On the mall: “Was so dizzy and disoriented from the stank in Sephora that she went into the Mall men’s room by mistake.”

On her dog’s gas: “Squirt is going with the eye-burning, room clearing flatulence theme for the Holidays. Merry Christmas to me. Riding down the interstate with my head hanging out the window.”

“Mostly,” she says, “I have funny friends. They share in my adventures. What I like about Facebook is that you can drop in at anytime with anyone.”

Avery Davidson: ?the provocateur

Assistant director of marketing at Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, former TV news reporter

Avery Davidson always likes to cause commotion and uses his profile to display his off-kilter comedic chops and knowledge of random song lyrics.

“I try to find song lyrics that fit something that I’m doing, or where I’m at, and I use those as status updates,” he explains.

He created a stir recently with this status update: “Avery J. Davidson thinks there’s no such thing as Santa.”?“[At the time,] I was listening to ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,’” he says, mentioning how he changed his profile picture to Krampus, the anti-Santa in Eastern European lore. “Naturally, I have a dark sense of humor.”

Rudy Macklin: the eyes on the street

Former LSU basketball great

If Facebook had a comedic all-star team, Rudy Macklin would be on it, but his best material comes from sitting at Wal-Mart near the Mall at Cortana with his mobile phone.

“You can just post up right there,” he says. “Somebody will dress real bad. A fight will break out. They come in, and I just start cracking up.”

His best story: his post about seeing his favorite girl at the strip club, then posting a picture of a puppy hanging on the pole.

“Everybody expected an actual stripper,” he says.

When he takes a Facebook break, all his friends want to know when he’s coming back to entertain them: “If I go away for a long time, people text and ask me where I am.”