Slut, the mermaid

Anyone who's been to Jungle Jim's by Walt Disney World has seen the happy little plastic animals that hang from the sides of your drinks. Well, in some cases, they are mermaids. My friend, Stephen, enjoys relating his tale of a drinking binge, a plastic mermaid and the subsequent search and rescue mission when said mermaid was accidentally dropped in the parking lot. Thus the legend of Slut, the mermaid, was born.

This brings us to a famous coffee retailer with a confusing logo which until recently I believed was a mermaid with two tails. Well it actually is a mermaid with two tails but not just any mermaid can have two tails. It turns out that it's a siren, a mythical creature depicted as a hybrid mutant woman bird thing with two wings or a hybrid mutant woman fish thing with twin tails. Bird or fish, these sirens are rumored to lure unwary seafarers to a crashing foamy doom with their songs-- sort of like a Bronze Age iPod. Had to get a foam reference in there somehow.

It would also seem that the more Disney animation type hybrid mutant woman fish thing with merely one tail, also sings a siren-like song but has no apparent motive for luring sailors to a wet death being they have their hybrid mutant man fish things in the form of the merman (although they're never called, Ethel). Oddly enough, the overwhelming popularity of Hans Christian Anderson's vis-a-vis Disney's little hybrid mutant fish woman thing also resulted in tremendous commercial gains. You know what the other mermaids were calling her, don't you?