Naked. Escalation.

I have no idea where she gets this stuff from.

Anna and Thomas are playing. Or trying to. And then I hear:
"Thomas, if you do that again you are going in timeout!"

I decide not to even look; from the sound of things, no limbs appear to be in imminent danger of snapping off, after all.
Ignore, ignore, ignore.
A few moments later:
"Thomas! If you do that again, YOU ARE GOING RIGHT TO BED!"

Stay the course. They need to learn to work things out themselves, after all. Right? Right.
It's pretty late, after all.
Bed time isn't far away, even. YAY!
I mean, right....

Moments later:
I hear the telltale "AAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhh!" from Anna, followed by a thud, followed by:
"THOM-ASSSSS!"
[And yes, it comes out that way when she's mad]
And then:
"If you do that again, you are going to bed.... " "... ahhhhh... ahhhh..." [pause]

I know this pause.
I am familiar with this pause.
This is the several second pause that ensues while you rack your brain trying to find some kind of threat just evil enough to get him to do what you want, but not so evil that some higher, nobler, and likely completely unrealistic moral belief (or in her case, her Mom), won't get in the way of you carrying it out.

Here's what she came up with:
".... If you do that again, you are going to bed...
WITHOUT ANY PAJAMAS!"

We all gasped as one.