It’s probably not the origin of the phrase, but I remember seeing some sitcom where a father sat his daughter’s boyfriend down to give him the “the birds and the bees” talk
The boyfriend said something like “no thanks, I already heard it from my parents”
And the father replied along the lines of “not my version you haven’t, you see, when the bee stings the bird, the bee dies”
Not-so-subtly threatening the boyfriend.
In my head it’s Red Foreman giving that talk, but I’m not 100% on that.
True, but fathers have been threatening their daughters’ suitors since time immemorial.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that it’s been used in a similar way for nearly as long as we’ve been using “the birds and the bees” as a euphemism.
It’s probably not the origin of the phrase, but I remember seeing some sitcom where a father sat his daughter’s boyfriend down to give him the “the birds and the bees” talk
The boyfriend said something like “no thanks, I already heard it from my parents”
And the father replied along the lines of “not my version you haven’t, you see, when the bee stings the bird, the bee dies”
Not-so-subtly threatening the boyfriend.
In my head it’s Red Foreman giving that talk, but I’m not 100% on that.
It’s not the origin of the phrase, since it dates back to at least 100 years before television
True, but fathers have been threatening their daughters’ suitors since time immemorial.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that it’s been used in a similar way for nearly as long as we’ve been using “the birds and the bees” as a euphemism.
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