Paddling piranha pool
Most of my mother's numerous suggestions for putting the world to rights are too impractical, disgusting or downright libellous to air in a forum like this, but I did like her proposal for solving the ongoing problems in connection with the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain - fill it with piranha fish.
Not only would this instantly cure people's desire to let their dogs and children swim in it (especially if a sample of each was actually eaten, a regrettable but necessary step pour encourager les autres), but it would also add an important extra layer of symbolism, with the fish representing the media who loomed so large throughout much of Diana's life.
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Top marks for symbolism, but how are you going to keep those piranhas fed, eh?
-- Chris Lightfoot
How about creating some sort of bizarre attraction for Big Brother wannabes in which they have to contend with killer pirhanas? It'd make a good bit of entertainment.
Reminds me of a Dave Barry quote:
'I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called "A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark".'
-- Chris Lightfoot
I hate to say it (and indeed restrained myself from doing so for several hours until I got bored and thought "what the hell"), but the logical answer to Chris's first question would be "the limbs of landmine victims".
Unfortunately, despite its singular appropriateness, I somehow doubt such a proposal would get past Kensington & Chelsea Council, even if they could be persuaded that the piranha idea was a goer.
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