I wrote a naughty little post earlier about the generally unspoken conspiracy of horsewomen regarding our nice rides. Check this out—

Mom Ma’am Me test drove one of these new iGallop Core and Abs Exercise Machines yesterday at her local mall.

The cost of the iGallop from Brookstone: $600.
The chance to be publicly humiliated at Northern Virginia's largest mall: priceless.

I watched several people suppress giggles and at least one young couple was openly staring at the jiggly spectacle before them. And I could have sworn I heard one man snicker and say "Ride 'em cowgirl!" as he sauntered by. I can only pray that no one had a video camera, lest I turn up on YouTube by this afternoon.

One of Mom Ma’am Me's readers commented—

I'm sure your hubbie was yelling "giddy up cowgirl!" all the way home or was it in the bedroom?

After watching the iGallop interactive demo over at the Brookstone web site (You must see this. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the link.), I’m beginning to think there’s definitely more to the iGallop ... ahem ...Core and Abs Exercise Machine than meets the eye!

Read it all. She is too funny.

UPDATE: Every Little Girl Wants a Pony, by Ana Marie Cox at Andrew Sullivan—The somehow even more hilarious Chinese version. (So that's how they maintain the one-child policy...)