People think, you know, sailors fall in love with mermaids, and how can they consummate their relationship?
Fertilise the eggs, Stephen.
Exactly, it’s very simple. She lays her eggs on a rock or something, and you go and fertilise them. What’s the problem?
The sailor has to sail back to his waters where he was spawned, and take the mermaid with him. So he has to go back to, I don’t know, Dorking, find a pond, pop his new fish-wife in there.
Fish-wife!
She lays her eggs, and then he has to be arrested for indecent public exposure at a boating pond.
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