Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-23 days agoCan someone explain the Birds and the Bees to me? I get its related to sex somehow but was never told the story or where it got started or how come a bird and insect?message-squaremessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up169arrow-down1message-squareCan someone explain the Birds and the Bees to me? I get its related to sex somehow but was never told the story or where it got started or how come a bird and insect?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-23 days agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejbrains@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·3 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Do_It%2C_Bees_Do_It
minus-squareDavel23@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days agoThis is nowhere near the first incidence of the phrase. This movie’s title was most likely a reference to the Cole Porter song “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love” which was written in 1928, and even that is not the origin of the phrase.
minus-squarejbrains@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoIndeed. I could hear the song and I couldn’t place the date.
minus-squarefriend_of_satan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoI love the Noel Coward version. https://youtu.be/fOVF3Pixf_o
minus-squarejbrains@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agohttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Do_It%2C_Bees_Do_It
This is nowhere near the first incidence of the phrase. This movie’s title was most likely a reference to the Cole Porter song “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love” which was written in 1928, and even that is not the origin of the phrase.
Indeed. I could hear the song and I couldn’t place the date.
I love the Noel Coward version. https://youtu.be/fOVF3Pixf_o
I love the Tank Girl version
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law