[decimon]

Bert and Ernie are not gay.

Nor are they heterosexual. They just are.

Very good. They're two funny characters for children to enjoy without any adult baggage. Just maybe they're two funny characters for adults to enjoy without any adult baggage.

[dr_lew]

"What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture." - Thomas Browne

I see from a footnote that the emperor Tiberius demanded answers to such questions from the "Grammarians".

... and here it is in Suetonius:

Yet his special aim was a knowledge of mythology, which he carried to a silly and laughable extreme; for he used to test even the grammarians, a class of men in whom, as I have said, he was especially interested, by questions something like this: "Who was Hecuba's mother?" "What was the name of Achilles among the maidens?" "What were the Sirens in the habit of singing?"