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• Try to appreciate sex with your knees tied together.
  (This may be slightly more challenging if you are female....
• Experiment with new ways to visit the toilet. Whatever you're doing now, it's not going to work.
  -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid....
• Try, just once, to do the lotus position. You'll never get the opportunity again.
  -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid....
• Learn that sharks aren't just there to be eaten. Some of them are getting the hang of this newfangled role-reversal stuff.
  -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid....
• Stand (or sit if you are more advanced) on the shore and sing at passing ships.
  Score a point for each one that runs aground. -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid....
• Go water skiing, but keep the other ski as a spare.
  -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid....
• Accuse fun-run organisers of discrimination. -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid.
• Act like a cartoon character. Most of your companions will be.
  -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid....
• Buy your chiropodist a farewell present. -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid.