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

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

How stupid of me! I never thought what Delphoi means. The very beginning of the "Eumenides" might have been a hint:

First, in this prayer, of all the gods I name
The prophet mother Earth; and Themis next,
Second who sat--for so with truth is said--
On this her mother's shrine oracular.
Then by her grace, who unconstrained allowed,
There sat thereon another child of Earth--
Titanian Phoebe. She, in after time,
Gave o'er the throne, as birthgift to a god,
Phoebus, who in his own bears Phoebe's name.
Etc.