"much easier by grassroots revolution than by coup"
*grin* Nicely put. In fact I have been carefully cultivating a coup approach: a sort of authoritative tone of voice that allows me to cut across a lot of babble when I want to say something really important, without actually raising my voice more than a little bit. It works very well, but I'm careful not to overuse it - it only gets used for really important things when everyone else has overlooked something absolutely vital, or occasionally when an unmissable pun opportunity is about to get away from me :-)
*grin* Nicely put. In fact I have been carefully cultivating a coup approach: a sort of authoritative tone of voice that allows me to cut across a lot of babble when I want to say something really important, without actually raising my voice more than a little bit. It works very well, but I'm careful not to overuse it - it only gets used for really important things when everyone else has overlooked something absolutely vital, or occasionally when an unmissable pun opportunity is about to get away from me :-)