If only he could use his talents for good and not evil

I had this big hard plastic ball that our previous dog loved to play with and which our current dog could care less about. There was a threaded 1 inch hole where one would add water or sand to slow down the speed at which the dog could bat the ball around the yard. The ball happened to be on the work bench one day and next to it was lying a threaded copper fitting that sort of fit the threaded hole in the ball, I don't always get to clean up after completing a project. So I had this idea to make a fountain. I toyed around with just placing the ball at the end of a copper pipe and connecting the hose to it. But then I bought a low flow pump and the path was paved towards building an actual fountain. For some reason I had a few of these flattened glass marbles (proper term is "glass gems") lying about and thought that they would look good affixed to the ball. So I bought a few bags from the $1 store and started gluing. I used GE Premium silicon glue. Do you know how long it takes to glue a bags worth of flattened glass marbles to a ball and how much area it covers? Answers: a long time and not much.  Do you know about this gravity thing and sloped surfaces? Well, because of that, I could only work on small sections at a time.

Here is the ball half covered in flattened glass marbles. I artfully sprayed the ball with some gold paint to give it some class. Don't worry it gets better.

Here it is viewed from the top, looks done, it wasn't.

I finally finished covering the surface of the ball and started seriously thinking about what I would use as a reservoir. And how I would support the ball over the reservoir, and run the electric. I picked up a bucket, an old chamber pot, I contemplated making a reservoir out of ferrocement, I looked at plastic tubs and even a wooden whiskey barrel. Ended up that a friend had found a fully function fountain with a sphere at the side of the road and had brought it home. Only drawback for her was that there was a leak. She offered, I did not decline, I fixed the leaks and came closer to the fountain of my dreams.
Wanting to preserve the existing sphere that came with the fountain, I looked for a platform for my flattened glass marble sphere and any other fountains of fancy I might come up with in the future. The final design decision was to use a polyethylene (PE) cutting board cut to fit the fountain opening. I did not attach the ball to the platform, just rested it in the hole I had cut, seen in the following photo. The PE was easy to work with and was plenty strong.

See the pretty ball, I had some turquoise colored rocks (from the $1 store) to spread around the base and hide the white PE base. Guess what, those bags of rocks didn't go far either.

And here it is months later, the fountain in a stop action photo.

And finally for those without an imagination or in need of a pee,  a world premier video.