thinking too hard

[godream]

My almost-two-year-old brother's utensil antics led the family to ponder The Little Mermaid around the dinner table. You know that bit where Ariel finds the fork, and the seagull whose name I can't remember calls it a dinglehopper or something and demonstrates how to use it for hairbrushing? Yeah. If Ariel has no idea what a fork is, and therefore they don't use forks underwater, what do they use? I thought chopsticks, but then I realized the real answer. So far as I remember, you don't see mermaids eat at all throughout the movie. _{(I could be wrong, I haven't seen it in ages.)} So obviously, like whales, mermaids eat krill. And while they're swimming around, talking and such, they're really slurping up microorganisms and doing all that baleen stuff that filters it.

So that's one mystery solved. I feel so smart. Or smug. Or possibly too obsessed with Disney movies. :P