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Title: What is the best type of shark to keep if you have an outdoor swimming pool?
Post by: paul.fr on 15/11/2007 16:38:00: just in case it matters, the pool is heated.
Title: What is the best type of shark to keep if you have an outdoor swimming pool?
Post by: neilep on 15/11/2007 17:01:48: Quote from: paul.fr on 15/11/2007 16:38:00
just in case it matters, the pool is heated.

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Title: What is the best type of shark to keep if you have an outdoor swimming pool?
Post by: Karen W. on 15/11/2007 17:51:46: You need a POOL shark!!!
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Title: What is the best type of shark to keep if you have an outdoor swimming pool?
Post by: opus on 21/11/2007 19:13:01: A great white obviously.
Title: What is the best type of shark to keep if you have an outdoor swimming pool?
Post by: Alandriel on 21/11/2007 22:05:41: You'll want, naturally, the very best

the easiest to maintain

the fastest

and of course

the very meanest

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Title: What is the best type of shark to keep if you have an outdoor swimming pool?
Post by: another_someone on 21/11/2007 23:28:44: You could try a cat shark or dogfish.
Title: What is the best type of shark to keep if you have an outdoor swimming pool?
Post by: Bored chemist on 22/11/2007 20:36:15: You could probably make a lot of people happy by keeping "loan sharks" in a swimming pool- preferably with large carnivorous sharks.