I like the subtle approach.
When I was at uni as an adult, we had a dean retire and another take his place. The old dean was a nice fellow, one with progressive ideas on how to run an engineering school and an attitude of cooperation and compromise with his professors. The new dean was a gladhander, but extremely conservative in his views and rather dictatorial.

As you can imagine, he was not well liked.

This new dean had a beer stein from his alma mater that he used as a coffee mug, and I for one found it rather grating to see him strutting about with the logo from our main academic rival clutched in his hand- but he was arrogant enough to believe that we should be emulating that school, so this was lost on him.

One day as I went to the vending machine for some chocolate I noticed a familiar stein on top of the machine. I quickly grabbed it and hid it in my bag.

Did I damage it? Did I wipe something foul inside it? Of course not- after all, I'm a mature adult.

Instead I put a little water in the bottom of it and left it standing beneath a urinal in the most heavily used bathroom in the building.

I don't think I saw him carrying it around ever again...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 18 Sep 2008, 18:13, Reply)