You tempt me! (see below)
(And the I promise I will go back to wading through
the pile on my desk...)

Basically a troll likes to post things like
'your pond is ugly and you are infecting us with West Nile' and then stands
back to see what he has stirred up.

A flamer likes to attack someone he disagrees with 'You are an idiot for
recommending that, or you are going to kill your fish and everyone else's.'
They don't have much tolerance for differing opinions.

I love trolls as I get to ignore my deskwork and come up with troll remedies
such as:

Troll! We have a troll in the pond!
Quick, break out the emergency kit!

First isolate the troll to the filter,
get your fish net and your cattle prod.
Gently prod the troll in his nether
regions (for some reason pond trolls
are always male and the nether region
prod is always effective).
Apply the maximum electrical charge
to the prod.
The troll will then obligingly hop into
the net.
Ignore the howls that accompany the
electrical prod administration, (he deserves it).

Remove the troll, in the net, to an
isolation tank. Deposit in tank.
Remedies vary at this point. You
may choose the one that you feel
best fits your particular pond troll's
crimes:

1. Apply 100 pounds of pond salt and shrivel
the pond troll out of existence.
2. Apply triple the maximum dose of
potassium permanganate effectively nuking
the pond troll to the next dimension.
3. Apply several dozen leeches to the pond
troll thus depriving him of vital fluids. You will
have to dispose of empty pond troll skin but
it does well in the compost heap.

Good luck and good hunting!


kathy :-)
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