Some time ago (it was 1973, in Woodbury CT) when CT set up its Inland Wetlands Agency my now ex-wife was elected to the first Agency. She was on the subcommittee that wrote by-laws for the Agency and proposed as the Official Motto "When you are up to your ass in alligators, it may help to remind yourself that your stated objection was to drain the swamp." Town Counsel vetoed that one as provocative to developers. She said that was the idea.