[mycroft]

Yes - aguahombre - or almost, at least:
http://en.wiktionary.../wiki/quizzical
and it means exactly what I believe you intended it to mean.

P.S. My current favourite pen is an Aguahombre...

[aguahombre]

Well, I have been accused of having English as my second language, so it is close enough. Forgot the emoticon

[ggwhiz]

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My partner, at the table and in life, has probably never forgotten the meaning of an alertable call in the entire time we have been playing. But, she occasionally will fail to alert, or annnouce, when she immediately goes into the process of how to proceed.

I know the music to those words.

I also see nothing wrong with letting people like the original culprit off the hook in events like this. You generally don't get the best Directors rulings short of an NABC and you can usually beat these people like a drum while keeping a civil atmosphere...... despite the urge to strangle them.