love this thread already and it's what, 2 minutes old? thanks, HK!

here's one from DD5, anatomy enthusiast and feminist.

the scene: we were walking past a series of shop windows. we passed a bathing suit shop with a display of mannequins in bikinis. DD5 mutters something under her breath.

me: sorry, kid, did you just say something? it was very quiet.
DD5: it wasn’t very nice – never mind.
me: hee - did you just say, “show-offs?”
DD5: yes. [shifts uncomfortably]
me: what made you say that?
DD5: the mannequins back there. they are standing in the most ridiculous way – as if they are better than us – which they ARE NOT. they’re so slender, they wouldn’t even have room for their organs if they were real.
me: that's a very interesting observation.
DD5: i mean, honestly. human bodies have 78 organs - and those mannequins would have nowhere to put them all.


Every Sunday it brooded and lay on the floor. Inconveniently close to the drawing-room door.