What's the deal with "the birds and the bees"?

you see, the bee goes from flower to flower collecting pollen. then one day it get drunk and wakes up with a hummingbird. overcome with feelings of shame, it presses a rape charge against the hummingbird, and while unsuccessful, it does succeed in destroying the hummingbirds family and career

"The birds and the bees" (sometimes expanded to "the birds, the bees and the butterflies"[citation needed]) is an English-language idiomatic expression which refers to courtship and sexual intercourse, and is usually used in reference to teaching someone, often a young child, about sex and pregnancy. The phrase is evocative of the metaphors and euphemisms often used to avoid speaking openly and technically about the subject.

According to tradition, the birds and the bees is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and consequence of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen, a visible and easy-to-explain metaphor of male fertilisation. Another example, birds lay eggs, a visible and easy-to-explain version of female ovulation. The idiom could date back as far as Shakespeare, from these lines in Act 4, Scene 6 of King Lear:

Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? No.

The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly

Does lecher in my sight"

Here, Lear is talking to Gloucester about adultery, telling him that he must not fear being punished for it, as animals do it all the time and it is therefore a natural phenomenon. The link with the second line and the modern day idiom seems to fit, as both regard the subject of copulation, and particularly, copulation in nature. In this case, the wren represents the birds, whilst the "gilded fly" may refer to bees; which seem to be flies "gilded" with gold stripes.

Word sleuths William and Mary Morris[1] hint that it may have been inspired by words like these from the poet Samuel Coleridge (1825): 'All nature seems at work ... The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing ... and I the while, the sole unbusy thing, not honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.'"[2]

Several sources give credit to Cole Porter for coining the phrase.[3] One of the legendary musician's more famous songs was "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." The 1928 standard contains the lyrics:[4]

And that's why birds do it, bees do it

Even educated fleas do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love

Famous uses of this phrase come from the work of John Burroughs, a naturalist who lived and worked in the Catskills Mountains. He wrote a small pamphlet called "Birds and Bees: Essays"[5] in which he explained the workings of nature in a way that children could understand. However, birds and bees are dealt with in separate sections; nowhere are they mentioned together. The phrase also had new meaning when it was adopted by singer Jewel Akens in the song, "The Birds and the Bees".

The birds and the bees is a favorite target for comedians. [6]

Birds' eggs are an analogy to explain ovulation, and bees are used to explain fertilization. Either because of the pollen thing, or because everyone back in oldie times had VDs and it stung like a swarm of bees when they peed.

A bee raped a bird because the bird dropped the soap. The bird had a nasty little bee bird child that had to be put to death.

I believe it came from this song:

"Let me tell you about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the sky up above...and a thing called love"

Bees and birds have sex all the time. Didn't you know?

Was a way of directing children to Gods creation and How things reproduce. Everything reproduces like God says after his own kind. So you watch the birds and How they mate and you study the bees and how they reproduce and you go wow what a wonderful creation God has made.

But many wanted God out of his creation and come up with the Big Lie ... Evolution ... which if studied shoots itself in the foot. The Single Cell shoots Darwin in the foot.

The Big Bang is just laughable.

The bible explains it simple enough for everyone yet eloquently ...

John 1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth;

the flesh profiteth nothing:

the words that I speak unto you,

they are spirit,

and they are life.

Bees is the strange one. Only the queen (1 in 60,000 individuals in average hive) has sex, and only once in her life. Like Pope, maybe?

cathedrals are super places. basically specific organs can play in cathedrals yet not others. additionally its difficult to locate such an organ, and if one is discovered it must be stored in stable concern and it additionally has an extremely extreme maintainence cost. in time as with maximum cathedrals the grow to be empty, and the organ does'nt get performed that frequently.

This would either belong in words and wordplay or in biology, in any case wrong category