Honestly the dingo thing doesn’t work for me either. For the life of me I can’t understand why people think that’s funny, considering it was based on a real tragedy with a real baby, and the tragedy was compounded when the mother was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent years in prison.
I reluctantly accept the fact that the phrase is deeply ingrained in pop culture now, but I wish it wasn’t.
Sounds like the beginning of a Lei e Ordem episode:
Turns out, the two “friends” offed the third guy and tried to blame piranhas for it.
It could have been worse.
ARTHUR:
But what was wrong with your planet?CAPTAIN:
Well it was doomed - as I said. Apparently it was going to crash into the sun. Or was it the moon that was going to crash into us?NUMBER ONE:
No, no, I thought it was that the planet was more or less bound to be invaded by a gigantic swarm of twelve-foot piranha bees.
As a Virginia resident, I came here specifically to make that joke.
Thank you!
I’ve been dreading the results of the election so much I don’t even know if I’m disappointed, numb, or apathetic.
Ironically, the etymology of the phrase puts it back in this situation. The earliest usage is by a Greek poet, Caesar Germanicus, describing a rabbit trying to escape a dog by jumping into the sea, only to be eaten by a fish.
Yes to all of the above.
We have a saying that involves carnivorous fish and cattle.
We usally say that when someone is sacrificed, or spontaneously decides to be discarded, it is called “Boi de Piranha” or in a swine translation: “An ox to the piranhas”.
People who live in the Brazilian hinterland say that when the herdsmen had to cross a river or lake with piranhas, they chose the oldest or sickest animal to be eaten by the hungry fishes, so the herd could cross the waters without being disturbed.
This story is generating a lot of buzz.
That method did not work, then. Good to know. 
Clearly, the lesson to be learned from this incident is:
Be the second man into the water.
And got banned from Martha’s Vineyard
Or Bloefeld in You Only Live Twice.
This is how we do things here. We’re repeatedly jumping from bad sh*t to even worse sh*t for almost a decade, like in out of the pandemic into the economic breakdown.
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Unless they are africanized bees. Those are real pricks and fight everything in their way.
Bees vs Piranhas
B-movie script in the post
Next summer on SYFY
I heard there’s a swarm of them coming up from Mexico. Bad hombres!
