Tie fifteen of them to a long bamboo pole
make 20 such poles.
Tie ten poles around your waist in an elegant fan arrangement.
Make your friend do the same.
Dress your wife in drab brown clothes.
All three of you must then go to the park, where you and your friend make piercing cries, flapping your elaborate tails in a competition to seduce your wife, much like the mating season of peacocks.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 14 Jun 2011, 14:01, archived)