Yes I definitely read it. In fact I got each character to read it. But no conversation started.
That definitely seems bugged then.
You know, for a while there my two companions used to have a multiple-choice conversation about the shovel the first time they used it. A patch a two later that vanished. I assumed maybe it was changed to trigger after a couple of shovel-uses (rather than the first one), but now I'm wondering if it's just bugged too.
