Speaking of "out of the mouths..." I'm at almost all of the outreach events for our club and we get very few really "stupid" or wiseacre questions. Most people are really thrilled at what they are seeing. But once I had a 7 year old looking at M31 through my scope. I told him it was the farthest thing we could see with our naked eye and that the telescope was something like a time machine looking back in time over 2 million years. He jerked his head back from the scoppe, eyes really big, and shouted "Hey Mom, come over here and see this guy's time machine!"