Don't mess around with Mother Irony, they tell one another now at the Café Babar. When the phone rings, no one wants to answer it. Although it is more than a year since Joe Troise and Bill Glanting and the others had their big idea, the caller is more than likely to be some reporter or talk-show crocodile wanting to know about the Dull Men's Club. Dullness had everyone excited there for a while, and it kept things jumping among the regulars at the café, a neighborhood beer-and-sandwich joint in San Francisco's Mission District....
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