Strange Car Conversation

[porphyry]

The other morning, we were all in the car together on our ways to school and work. The children were good-naturedly bickering in the back seat, but I, sensing the potential for the situation to escalate, intervened by using the sympathy appeal.

Me: Come on, you two. Settle down. You'll scare Flipper.
Andrew (without hesitation): I will scare Flipper until he hides in the bottom corner of your uterus!
Madeline: What's a uterus?
Malkhos: It's an upside-down Greek vase that Flipper is living in right now.

Comments

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I'm working on an item like that now. When the Greeks borrowed Lamashtu mythology the name suggested to them their own word for 'maw' which, coincidently, was appropriate, hence Lamia.

Unfortunately West and Burkert thinks Gello (probably the coldness of death) originated in the same way from Akkadian Gallu--Unfortunately the Gallu was an apotropaic figure completely unrelated to the child-killing mythology, so I find it extremely improbable.

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

Sounds fascinating. (To my shame, I had to look up Lamashtu, Gello, Gallu, - and even "maw". But at least I knew who Lamia was!)