On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Philip Hacker wrote:

Last night, I had a very strange dream in which Ranma's curse was to 
transform into a half-liter carton of milk. Has anyone given any thought 
to what things might be like if some Jusenkyou curses transformed people 
into inanimate objects? I know somebody did something involving a spring 
of drowned Nissan Pathfinder, but a living automobile isn't quite 
inanimate.

"Skinny Legs and All" by Tom Robbins. Read it. (Novel)