Okie,
It looks like a lot of people get embarassed in project meetings. I remember one situation years ago.
This pitiful engineer (call him John, probably still alive) was in charge of Instrumentation for this large project. Before the project meeting, he went to the contractor instrumentation foreman and asked about the schedule. The foreman apparently was looking hard for excuses and came up with "we are short on DC wire. We have plenty of AC wire, but the shipments of DC wire are behind schedule."
That afternoon in the meeting, John made the statement that the instrument installation was behind due to a shortage of DC wire. There was a long pause in the meeting as the other engineers tried hard not to laugh. Then someone asked John what the difference was between DC wire and AC wire. Old John was way above his head now, and he went off on a wild explanation about how DC wire had been magnetized so all the electron charges were aligned, so it worked much better for DC circuits than the plain AC wire. Obviously he was making this stuff up as he went. He became famous around those parts as the first engineer to use DC wire.
Years later, I asked the instrument foremen what he had meant by "DC wire". He said, "Oh, John knew diddly-squat about wiring. That was just words I used to mean the 2-conductor shielded cable that we were using for the instrument loops."