WTO (Nerds Take Cancún) - Did you know there were four "Revenge of the Nerds" movies? Sure Anthony Edwards only did the first two, but that doesn't matter. Curis Armstrong, hero to all, was in all four.

I was reading CNN.com a little bit ago, and buried below the news about suicide bombings and the President's request for more war money was a story about some protests that are going on in Cancún because the World Trade Organization is meeting there. Protests at the WTO meetings are pretty standard, they happen all the time, but this is the only story at all about the meeting in today's news.

"Naked Activists Protest WTO Meeting." Naked? How could I not click? I forgot of course, that most people who don't charge for their nudity are generally as attractive as Mr. Kent, my 7th grade science teacher. I had visions of a bunch of sweaty people with tape on their glasses and pocket protectors, I suppose, taped to their chests standing in the middle of a city, holding signs and yelling "We're march day and night by the big cooling tower..." or whatever it is WTO protestors chant.

No. I was happy when I saw a photo load, but it was a wide photo of some well tanned and slender 20-somethings lying on their stomachs, having spelled out "No to the WTO" in Spanish.... on a beach.

Let's read that again. They protested by nude sunbathing on a beach in Cancún, Mexico.

I sat and stared at the photo for a long couple of minutes, trying desparately to come up with a joke. I knew there was one in there, and I knew that a couple years ago, I'd see the photo, and immediately turn to the guy next to me on the 6 and say "So, these protestors were lying on the beach..." and he'd get up and walk away secretly laughing as he tried to hide his daughter from the crazy man. Now, though, I had nothing. I just sat, staring at this headline and this photo. "So, these protestors were lying on the beach." No. "A protestor walks into a bar." No. "A Rabbi, a Priest and a Naked Protestor are on..." Feh. I got nothing. Screw it.

So, what is the joke here? There's no humor in the fact that they're naked. That's boring. Is it with the politics? The beach? I don't know. Sure, that fact that the meeting is in Cancún at all is pretty funny, but there's got to be something more. I asked my friend, Kess. She was no help either.

Robots? No. Nerds? No. Puns? Nuns? Penguins? No.I can't do it. I can't find the joke. I give up.

A grasshopper walks onto a beach....