shock. Honest. All that guff about piranhas being the type of fish that would eat it's own mother, and it's mother's mother, and anyone elses mother turns out to be not true. In reality it seems the piranha is a fairly cuddly type, in fact the sort one might invite to babysit should they become neighbours. And all this pack stuff? Well solitude makes 'em anxious so naturally they're drawn to groups. And the teeth thing? A piranha spokesfish interviewed by Associated Press was quoted as saying, "We think this latest research might be a turning point. Yes, yes we know about the eyes and the teeth and the blood and the gore and the evisceration but you know, we're really just guys. Hey, some of us even have families. What's that Julian? Oh sorry, yes, some of us even had families."
Quite touching really.
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At times a tank full of piranhas would actually come in quite handy...
Handy for what D? I mean, you could hardly ask them round for dinner, especially as you would be the dinner. Nope, I think they're best left alone, let em get on with swimming up the Amazon or wherever. Just glad they're not European...
ooops. I see. well. I was just going to suggest asking them round for dinner, but I see you've put the kabosh on that.
never mind.
resume whatever you were doing, don't mind me.
Hayden,
I like to think that health and safety for diners is central to everything I do. One can't be too careful about guests, especially guests that might eat the other guests. It must surely be a sign of good hosting that all the guests who arrive also manage to leave. Ipso facto.
oh dear. Health and safety for diners. It sounds so CAUTIOUS. A bit - well - British, actually.
A bit of recklessness adds spice. And when things are going well I wish my guests would never leave.
humm.
I don't get it, you write about Piranhas, but you put in a picture of Hilliary Clinton. What gives?
Hayden,
Wishing your guests would never leave is sweet, though rather than feeding things to them you feed them to things might be considered by some a tad excessive as a method of not wishing something to end.
K,
Hmmm, Hilary Clinton? Don't see it myself. Always thought of the Clintons as sharks rather than piranhas.
I saw [on tv] some Amerindians [indigenous people of Guyana] catching a pirai [piranha]. The thing GOBBLED UP the fishing rod!!!! You don't mess with them there fishies, Dan, don't believe otherwise.
Handy for dipping a few people.
Don't mind asking who, the list is growing...
G,
I've no intention of ever going near a piranha. I've seen the movie, read the book, worn the t-shirt, had the tattoo done, squeezed the lemon, peeled the orange, adjusted the grapefruit and needled the banjo on this one. Yes siree...
D,
Ah, that list of those to be fed to the piranhas, it grows longer everyday. Blair and Bush would be good people to start with. Bet we'd make a mint selling tickets, then there'd be the tv syndication. It would be bigger than Live Aid. Ha ha...
OK How about Margaret Thatcher?
K,
I'd rather thought it would be the blood of Thatcher's rotting corpse that would draw the piranhas to the still twitching bodies of Bush and Blair in the first place.
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