This reminds me of when I went for one of my first job interviews.
In the job application I had mentioned that for pleasure I read science fiction. So one of the interviewing panel asked if I believed in UFO's. As UFO simply means Unidentified Flying Objects (rather than Flying Saucers) these obviously exist, and so being too clever for my own good I said 'Yes they exist'. I was about to elaborate on this but they quickly moved the interview on to other topics, and I am sure they felt they were interviewing a crank believer in aliens from outer space!
