Just to assure everyone that the torch will be passed to the younger generation, behold the following. My seven year-old has been working on analogies in her schooling, and she recently took the opportunity to affirm the wonder of the world of objects.

She reads:

"Happy is to sad as ____ is to ____."

She thinks. Then writes:

"Happy is to sad as pig is to washing machine."

Perhaps it's not surprising, though: things are far more signal than noise to children, for whom the wonder of worldly repleteness has not yet been lost to the ennui of social practice.