If you are going to tell the world that your father was a brain surgeon and often took you to work with him, so you understand all the basics, but preferred going to work with your mother, a renowned rocket scientist, make SURE that there are no surgeons or rocket scientists around.
One difficult question could throw all your hard work out the window and reduce you to mere babbling in front of those you are struggling to impress.
If you are half way through an anecdote in which your father saved someone's life -when in truth he was a postman - do not backtrack, save yourself with a quick twist of your words.
Scenario
"The young woman was so eternally grateful for such intricate surgery she offered to pay my way through Oxford University in England, although she'd never met me!"
"Oh really! What procedure exactly did your father do, I'm a brain surgeon you know, so I will understand this"
Don't blush, don't falter, just change tack.
"He's a gout surgeon"
"But young people do not get gout!"
"It was a complication that she was born with, Dad did not go into details but apparently some of her chromosomes were mixed so her metabolism allowed for gout"
Pick a subject you know about and go from there, by the end of the evening the brain surgeon himself will be swearing he wants to meet your father, and buying you all the drinks. You will now have even clever people as minions. You are well on your way.
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