Actually that's kinda spooky - something similar literally just happened. My boss asked my to find out how many 404 error messages out site was getting. So I typed in:
grep '404' error.log | wc
I gave him the answer and he was curious enough to ask what I'd just typed in meant. So I told him that I'd used a gloabl regular expression parser to look the text '404' and then pipe that output into word count. He just shook his head and said that I was 'such a geek'. Now I'm not offended by that (in fact I think it's kinda a compliment). But still I reckon that my explanation was pretty understandable.
Oh well back to geeking out I guess :-)