He told me so

I have been asked to report that, contrary to my incessant dogging out years ago, it is now the cool thing to have water washing over a wall of ... whatever. They do it with everything now, slate, rock, resin made to look like rock, etc. So Pants is officially now the harbinger of cool.

Although, if you remember correctly, my issue wasn't so much that the "wall of water" wouldn't look cool, but that it might have a negative effect on our resale value. That and the fact that Pants was moving towards turning our town house into the ultimate bachelor pad.