I should say so. There's no one that looks quite like you where I'm from.

[It's about as polite as he's going to get in terms of asking "what the hell are you anyway" -- but then, he's not really asking. Halbert has enough sense not to.

He shrugs, responding airily:] I wouldn't know what that's like.

[Anyway.]

So what do you normally do? Semi-professionally or otherwise.