Asok had to pull on the starter cord to get the machinery going in order to say something. I thought engineers were supposed to be the inarticulate ones.....
I was once put in charge of a meeting the boss couldn't attend. I asked each person there if they had anything to table. Each person said they had nothing to discuss, so I concluded the meeting. Next day boss asked how the meeting went. Great, I said, we accomplished all of our priorities.