Self-referential Sentencing

I explained a student the concept of powerlooping by constructing a program that generates self-referential sentences like

This sentence contains seventeen times the letter i, fifteen times the letter r, fourteen times the letter h, thirteen times the letter l, twelve times the letter n, eleven times the letter m, six times the letter f, five times the letter v, four times the letter o, and three times the letter u.

The student gawked for fifteen seconds while I was expecting an exclamation like "awesome" or "cool", but instead he balked with "and that is supposed to help me find a job?"