“The two people whose numbers have been called have to get up and change chairs with the two people on either side of the answerer.”
“Unfortunately for the caller of this unsuspecting phone call, the answerer is far to busy to hear the phone ringing, and so the caller will try again in nine minutes time.”
“You're looking at the answerer, and if someone over here indicates to me, as chair, I would put it to you that someone else would like to answer.”
“There are some queries that we answerers of questions on the story of the English language get asked more often than others.”
“Then you have technicians who get the problems that the phone answerers cannot solve.”
“If I were actually able to suggest to questioners and answerers that they keep their questions and answers succinct, question time would be over in about 20 minutes.”