But over the course of the next hour, it transpires that it's also very much a standard Robbie Williams answer: lengthy, frank, involved, testament to what Williams describes as his "pathological oversharing", extremely entertaining and somehow leaving you with the sense that it must be fairly exhausting to be Robbie Williams, even when off-duty.
Nevertheless, Belli et al [ 33] provide evidence that users' and providers' answers were frank and open, and Barr [ 34] observed that providers did not look confused while filling in the questionnaires.
"I gave a pretty clear and frank answer to a clear and frank question, and I don't regret that at all," Cameron said.
Responding to Robert Jay QC, Myler said: "I had no reason not to give them a full and frank answer.
"If you ask me now, do I know how to close that new $378 million gap, the frank answer is, 'No, I don't,' " Mr. Walder said.
He fretted over this quite a little while, and the reluctantly gripped his fountain pen and wrote, opposite the entry "Sex" the frank answer "Occasionally".
When I asked him, at a public event, why violent offenders shouldn't also get a second chance, his answer was surprisingly frank.
Underlying this flip yet frank answer is his conviction that the social world of college is a self-selecting, largely homogenous "bubble".
Often a counselor has a relationship with the college admission staff and can get a frank answer about whether there is any point in pursuing a spot.
News International might argue that she deserves credit for a frank answer, if only it hadn't immediately gone into damage-limitation mode, with Mr Coulson leading the way in trying to brush over his colleague's tracks.
