DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

       Sir, my cranium consisting of Vermont marble, volcanic lava and African ivory, covered with a thick layer of case-hardened steel, forms an impenetrable barrier to all that seeks to impress itself upon the ashen tissues of my brain. Hence, the effulgent and obstentatiously effervescent phrase just now directed and reiterated for my comprehension have failed to penetrate the coniferous forest of my atrocious intelligence. In other words, I am very dumb and I do not understand, Sir!