His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I don't like to play the victim.

The new, young, chic and acquisitive rich, the restless young Europeans and the beautiful people still flit from Palm Beach's polo fields to Newport's yachts with refueling stops at Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Tiffany.