Possibly, but personally I wouldn't give him the benefit of any doubt. This isn't the first, nor sadly the last, time he's done this sort of thing to derail a discussion. That he finds it funny, or at least wants us to think he does, merely reinforces that.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
