at least he understands the digestive system

i think the chinese have a lot to answer for, because they keep saying babies grow in people's duzi, which was why a particularly confused kid asked my dad, during science, how babies are kept from being digested.

(on a tangent, - people should read thurber and white's is sex necessary. which i thought was brilliant when i first read it, because of the transatlantic flight route map substitute. there is something beautifully goonish about it.)