Just Smile and Nod?

   There are loads of situations where this could happen to you. Let's say you're Col. Jack O'Neill from Stargate SG1, specifically the episode "Window of Opportunity." You go through the same day over and over again, resetting back to where you started again at the beginning. Eating your Froot Loops, engaging in a conversation with Daniel Jackson, always at the point where he's saying: "Anyway, that's just how I feel about it. What do you think?" And you didn't hear the question in the first place.

   Granted, there are loads of more plausible scenarios where you're asked a question but have no idea how to respond- people slur, and maybe you're hard of hearing, or anything. But this one makes me giggle hardest. Let's say you are O'Neill. If you're ever caught when you didn't hear or weren't paying attention to what someone was saying, but it is pretty clear that they asked a question, you aren't sure how to respond. I've come up with the perfect solution, though: say "it depends on the context."

   This will either get you to leave you alone or repeat the question, possibly illuminating (expanding) upon the context. Unless their question was, "...or does it depend on the context?" but I can assure you, it's very rarely that. Not that anyone has done any... science on it or anything. But out of all the possible questions in the world, well, I don't know. Like, statistically, it can't be all that high...?