When fellow panelist, the comedian Matt Forde, explained to Livingstone that he couldn't absolve the terrorists merely by blaming Tony Blair, his first words in reply were "Well, you can because…".
When colleagues asked the Libyans why they didn't speak up, the general reply was, "Well, we don't know what to ask," said Zara Rahman, a freedom of information expert from the organization OpenOil who attended the event that day.
Well, someone asked him just that about his remix chair (above) saying, "Don't you think you've ruined the integrity of all these classic chairs?" His reply was, "Well yeah, but that's the point".
When told that 15 enemy ships had been taken, he replied, "That is well, but I had bargained for 20".
When a screenwriter tells him he thought Hitchcock was joking, Hitch replies stiffly, "As is well known, I have no sense of humor whatsoever".
China's reply is equally well rehearsed: the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia are democracies, and just look where that has got them.
Sowore initially disarms Mugabe by asking: "Mr Mugabe, how are you?" Smiling uncomfortably, he replies: "I am well, thanks".
Understanding this oblique reference to the fact that Chacha Latif treated her with little ceremony, as an equal, Husna sweetly replied, "He's well, Uncle, thank you".
His reply, Nause said, was, "Well, there ought to be," which did not come across as magnanimous as it sounds.
"If this is but the first volume of a trilogy and there are another 1,300 pages to come," More replies, "then I am well out of here".
