[gmku]

In hindsight, it's easy to come up with funny answers, of course. Maybe I could have disarmed them with something like this, affecting a Peter Sellers-like voice from a scene in Lolita: "Well, ya know, that thar is a purty darned good little question, yessiree, it sure is! Per-fish-ency, ya says. Well, now, lemme do some figurin' on that one. Gosh, that's a good one, hee hee, yessir. Well, ya sees, dem ol' English teachers never did learn me nothing no how."