When condemning tanks
As just brutal war machines
One often forgets
The fact that tanks also make
Some lovely homes for goldfish
A Tanka About Tanks
The wit and wisdom of a man who has neither…
When condemning tanks
As just brutal war machines
One often forgets
The fact that tanks also make
Some lovely homes for goldfish
James Proclaims! 
Two many tank twists for this sick guppy?!
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I was worried I’d tanked the tanka, but maybe I’m just being koi
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This is why we don’t have goldfish.
Once they’re in their tank, they’re likely to start shooting at the cat.
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It’s just common sense really
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Is that where the expression “Like shooting fish in a barrel” comes from?
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I think that’s an etymological red herring
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Are they red because they’ve been shot?
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With both barrels
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Just how many barrels of fish are there in this tanka?
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Quite clearly there are two
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You have me there. It reminds me of an old school report: ‘Peter must pay attention when the teacher is speaking.’
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Goldfish. First you give them a tank…. next thing they’ll want a howitzer. Stop the insanity!
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I understand your side of the debait
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Tanks for dat insight.
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I wasn’t fishing for compliments
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They can’t possibly remember how to drive it.
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They can be absent-minded it’s true
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How terribly thoughtless.
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It’s relatively small scale
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I never forgot that tanks make lovely homes for goldfish because I never knew it in the first place.
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I’m bowled over
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I thought castles were what fish had. The world really is getting too violent if fish now have tanks.
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This may of course be a play on words that only works in the UK but tank is a synonym for aquarium here. Hopefully there are castles therein but no military vehicles
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