Dumbed It Down To The Bottom

(At a mandatory training day with a bunch of coworkers, we are listening to the lecture and following along in our handouts. There are a couple of guys that are chatting and disturbing the rest of the group. After discussing a particularly difficult concept the teacher asks one of the group disturbing the rest some questions to see if he was paying attention.)

Teacher: “[Coworker], can you please reiterate what I just said to the group?”

Coworker: *mumbling, haltingly, reads out the related confusing paragraph from the handout*

Teacher: “Thank you. Can you put that in your own words for us? Dumb it down in case there is anyone who didn’t catch the drift.”

Coworker: “Well… if have a thing that you don’t mean to have… or shouldn’t have a thing… if you might have it you need to get another thing… or just not have a thing… or something.”

Teacher: *faltering for something to say* “Well, that certainly was… dumber… so… thank you?”