of troy says well at least its not a hippoithyphallic!
bingley points out: I know your mother handled an ithyphallic swan, but I think you should expunge all thoughts of handling ithyphallic hippos from your mind

Dear helen, you previous discussions of hippi had concerned the tuti-clad hippi in the movie Fantasia. That is, you formerly ad-dressed hippi who were explicitly female, but you now contemplate hippi who are -- ahem -- most "explicitly" male.