An Observation

One thing that really annoys me, and I'm probably guilty of this, is people who make stupid comments and then defend themselves by saying "I was trying to be clever," or "I was trying to be witty," or "I was trying to be ironic," and so on. How do you try to be clever? Aren't you just clever? In my opinion you are either clever or you're not, there is no trying to be clever. Therefore people who are not clever should not try to be clever. This would save them the embarrassment of failing and showing the world that they are unclever.