alea, if I dropped "potential" between "the" and "doughnut" then it would work?
The lines (revs, exps, or cashflow) were obviously headed south with some authority.
One can then see, in the absence of something significant, one can end up in a hole.
Whether one variably assumes on the basis of the lines and their clear divergence that something must be cooking (which would fill the hole, hence no hole manifest) or assumes that their whiskers aren't so sharp and there will be some hole, is too me parsing. The potential hole was well observed by many. So I took liberty and piled in anems off the top of my head that said anything like 1) a hole or 2) there must be something cooking .. cause otherwise there is a hole.
But I do recognize I was in many way inserting words. Apologies. A longer version read with less punch.
I of course, hole speaker or not, never imagined they could find the rocks with such gusto.