"my industrial arts teacher used to say - "Are you with us!?""

Was this then a regular question WAV? Did you ever realise that it was not rhetorical, but a baffled bewilderment at your unawareness of the world, subject , classroom, classmates etc?

As to your professed predilection for gobbledegook I think we'd spotted that. Could you not have found a synonym from our own good English instead of repeating such an Americanism?

Almost as non-English as the Australian Chook.

Stu