Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-224 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-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up17arrow-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-224 days agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejbrains@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·24 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Do_It%2C_Bees_Do_It
minus-squareDavel23@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 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.
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.