academic juggling
n. When students compete against one another to see who can sidetrack their professors the longest by asking loaded questions that will require long drawn out answers; the juggling part happens when students ask mini follow up questions to keep the conversation going and going...
I asked Frank what would happen if the Prime Minister played a happy slapper prank on the minister of justice and he went on for at least ten minutes just trying to figure out what to say, man academic juggling sucks.