[OT -- Like Way OT] Opportunity for a Merry Prank

A commercial firm has linked to a picture in my website as an example
of something that they're selling. That would be fine with me, but they
didn't ask me about it beforehand, didn't notify me of it once they did,
and have a snarky thing to say about the page to boot. The page in
question gets several hits a day from their link, presumably from customers
or potential customers.

They don't know that I know.

This presents a delicious opportunity for a zinger: I want to replace
the file they think they're linking to with something... else...
entirely, and this is where my smart friends at racs come in: ideas,
please, people.

I'm not going to be real nasty about it (after all, they could have just
snagged the picture and put it on their website passing it off as their
own, and I never would have known -- also, their snarky comment about
the page is deserved -- and there's no copyright issue involved), but
don't let that hold you back in suggestions.

Details: the business is a nursery, and the link is of the form "for an
adult specimen of [xxx plant], click here [linked to a file in my
site]."

Ideas I've had so far include replacing the picture of xxx plant with a
list of links to the nursery's competitors or a pitiful, twisted, ugly
specimen of some other species, possibly dead, but I'm sure you folks
can come up with something better.

(I'm not giving the website or the particular plant because I don't want
anybody tipping them off before I zing them. Of course, some of you
will find that to be a challenge; best of luck to you.)

I'll let this percolate for a couple of days, and then I'll pull the
trigger. If a suggestion from here winds up being used, the person who
suggests it will win a fabulous dinner for two at Mike Peterson's house.

--
Sherwood Harrington
http://SherWords.blogspot.com
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