When anwearing a question....

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That can be given a simple yes or no, with no elaberation, do you just give yes or no without elaberating? I do. It's fun and most importantly, technically correct.

Yes!

Well now, that depends. While it can most definitely provide some enjoyment to simply answer "Yes" or "No" to such a question, it can be necessary to provide elaboration. It may be that the inquirer may need to know more than a simple affirmative or negative response. It may be that the inquirer requires further explanation. While this may be implied in the inquirer's nonverbal communicators, such as gestures, facial expressions, or body language, it is possible to miss this intention. The result would be a response that is insufficient to the inquirer's needs. Thus it would behoove the recipient of said question to pay the utmost attention to such subtle intentions as it may prevent embarassment on the parts of both the inquirer and the inquired. Conversely, the inquirer may, in fact, require only a simple affirmative or negative response. Any elaboration could be seen as mere pedantry rather than elucidation. In this instance, the humor derived from simply answering "Yes" or "No" can be gained by countering the question's implied request with an overly descriptive and, quite probably, undesired response. The humor would derive from the respondent's verbage far exceeding the needs of the question. Therefore, the enjoyment results from properly interpreting the nature of the response desired by the inquirer, but providing a contradictory answer.

Yes but not very often.....usually the right answer doesn't seem that simple, there are caveats and details that I get tempted to explain. In fact I kept wanting to do that on the AQ test - to explain why the box I'd ticked wasn't really the last word on the question.