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"The birds and the bees": Meaning and origin of the phrase
Livescience ^ | 4/27/23 | Kim Ann Zimmermann

Posted on 08/06/2024 4:53:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff

"The birds and the bees" is a story parents tell their children to deflect the question "Where do babies come from?"


(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: birdsandbees; walz; wboopie
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All JD Vance has to do is say to Walz, "do you understand, the birds and bees"?
1 posted on 08/06/2024 4:53:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

It doesn’t deflect it at all.

It puts things in a easy to understand biological perspective without the need for explicitness or overly sexual explanations.


2 posted on 08/06/2024 4:58:16 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DallasBiff

That’s a Great illustrative pic.


3 posted on 08/06/2024 5:11:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ifinnegan

Wolverton exists in Century Village, Fl. They ran fiber to the condos. I’d move there. So why do I bring it up? it’s not a mountain there.


4 posted on 08/06/2024 5:15:12 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ifinnegan

Birds are extremely useful to train children in the responsibilities and importance of parenthood.

I’ve been involved with/working with animals all my life, and I’ve never seen more dutiful ‘parent animals’ than birds.

They are dead serious about their bird lives. Some humans could learn a great deal from them.


5 posted on 08/06/2024 5:17:26 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Birds are rude and uncool. When I was little I was trying to catch one with an obvious broken wing. It managed to stay just ahead of me all the way across the yard. Then it suddenly flew away.
Dad explained to me how it had lured me away from it’s nest with babies.

Deceitful little animals.


6 posted on 08/06/2024 5:31:13 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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Was it faking a broken wing? Maybe it was a pro soccer playing bird...


7 posted on 08/06/2024 5:32:22 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: DIRTYSECRET; ifinnegan; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv
Wolverton exists in Century Village, Fl. They ran fiber to the condos. I'd move there. So why do I bring it up? it's not a mountain there.

Relevant to nothing else, but there is that old country song about all those birds and the bees going on on Wolverton Mountain. Witch can't be in Florida either, since there ain't no mountains in FL. (Good number of witches in the LA swamps outside of N'Leans. And even more in the DC Swamp.)

Nor are there any caves under Tiger Mountain in deep south GA - where a guy got lost in Millers Cave.

Way down in the state of Georgia
Amongst the swamps and the everglades
There's a big ol' hole in Tiger Mountain
God help the man who gets lost in Miller's Cave

8 posted on 08/06/2024 5:32:59 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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Miller's Cave--Bobby Bare (1964)

An acquaintance of mine who knew that area said he didn't think there were any caves in southern Georgia.

9 posted on 08/06/2024 5:38:37 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: rfp1234

It flopped! A Euro soccer bird.


10 posted on 08/06/2024 5:40:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DesertRhino

And extremely intelligent, for such tiny brains...:-)


11 posted on 08/06/2024 5:43:45 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I don’t know that song but it reads like a Jim Stafford/Don Bowman piece of work


12 posted on 08/06/2024 5:44:04 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: Robert A Cook PE
The Woolverton Mountain in the song is near Center Ridge, Ark. Clifton Clowers (1891-1994), the song's villain, was a local farmer.

Woolverton Mountain--Claude King (1962)

I'm the Girl from Woolverton Mountain--Jo Ann Campbell (1962)

Flip it over! The B-side is boss!
Sloppy Joe--Jo Ann Campbell

13 posted on 08/06/2024 5:49:18 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Jamestown1630

Her treachery was unequalled.


14 posted on 08/06/2024 6:31:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DesertRhino

Bird was a Killdeer.


15 posted on 08/06/2024 6:46:06 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: DesertRhino
"The female of the species is more deadly than the male."
16 posted on 08/06/2024 6:52:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

"The Birds and the Bees" - Jewel Akens   (song link)

17 posted on 08/06/2024 7:00:04 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Jamestown1630

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Birds are absolute killers. Without a seconds hesitation they attack. After stalking. After watching. After planning. As someone said above, that’s a lot of work for such a small brain.


18 posted on 08/06/2024 7:50:20 PM PDT by enraged
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Yes. Their drive is to survive and reproduce.

(Have you ever seen house sparrows doing murder to get another pair out of a good nesting spot? If you’re a soft-hearted human-centric person, it’ll put you off birds forever...)


19 posted on 08/06/2024 7:56:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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The birds refer to family care and nuturing, the bees refer to industrious labor.

An example of lyrics referring to love, romance, and a frolicking:

“We can discover the wonders of nature’
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside” (Hunter, Weir)


20 posted on 08/06/2024 8:54:20 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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