I once freaked out a boss at work by casually announcing "I think we need to call the hazmat team." After a pregnant pause I continued, "Clearly a tanker-load of stupid has crashed into and tainted the local water supply for the entire town, and it now appears to also be contagious." It took five seconds for them to finally snap out of crisis management mode and realize I was being a smartass. In my defense, (some) people were being extra fucking stupid that day.