well, I wouldn't try to understand me with a coathanger. Not unless it was made of yoghurt. - Henry Gee

Ian, I personally thought you had the most creative responses - if originality can be conflated with creativity. But perhaps the creativity we were trying to solicit was in deconstructing the answers (i.e. how can you make those things that don't go with a coathanger, indeed go with a coathanger in some way?). - Heather

Yes, Ian had Joyce like superb free associations - Attila Csordas