If the question was so stupid, why didn't they answer by accusations:
Write them and ask if they wear their T-shirts tuck into their underpants. If you don't get a reply will then begin to grasp the shear profundity of the question?
You haven't answered most points brought to you here. We must all be asking some really good question.
"Mom! Ban Ki-moon made a non-binding resolution at me." Mohmoud Ahmadinejad