My boss is an Everquest addict. (She claimed to have been up until 4am, given how happy she is with the PlayStation 2 version. This is not extreme for her current obsession.)
Last night she had to ask, "What's Dungeons & Dragons?"
In order to provide her with sufficient geek credit tonight, I answered a number of questions (including that one) about D&D, how it was played, giving her some sort of assurance that it was the precursor to Everquest... and how D&D was played on-line, to which she said,
"It's just like cybersex, except it's adventure, instead."
She went on to explain that instead of wearing cut-off blue jeans and a halter top, in cybersex you'd say you were wearing a pink teddy, and in D&D, you'd say you were a leather-clad elf hunting orcs.
(Hmmm. You might say that in B&D too, but...)
The last time I explained gaming to someone, it was after the huge Vampire LARP Orgy of, what, `98? The nudge-nudge-wink-winks were distracting.
Maybe I'm not quite explaining this right. [shaking head]