If your little one asks you "The Question", you can semi-clearly utter, "Philippian tubes" and show him/her a map of the northern-Aegean-Sea area. That way, you are giving an essentially-truthful answer, while still "keeping the conversation G-rated" --- i.e., without divulging any actual "adult-themed" info. Plus said youngster will likely become either bored or "info-overloaded" while staring at the map, and thus will forget about his/her original question.

Philippian tubes by QuacksO February 26, 2025

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fogey

Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!

You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

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