"I was," he stated in slow and precise words, "being facetious."

Mad Sweeney, grim in the face of pep. But he was dealing with someone not of Earth now and while there were plenty of fairy folk of the fairy realm that would claim not to be of Earth, everyone knew better. Everyone was from Earth. Even the aliens that people believed in were just a different kind of being claiming to be from other realm. So not of this Earth was a story he was having difficulty finding credibility in.

"But, you know, I've spent a lot of time on Earth. You?"