On Nov 5, 9:17 pm, Jean-Marc Desperrier <jmd...@alussinan.org> wrote:
> CL wrote:
> > [...] probably best positioned to be gadflies.
>
> It's interesting to see how a positive meaning for that word is possible
> in english, whereas in french La Fontaine caused only the negative
> meaning to survive through the fable "the coach and the fly" (http://oaks.nvg.org/lg2ra12.html#ticoachfly).

gadfly can be positive?  :-)