• stray@pawb.social
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    17 hours ago

    We don’t really know where the phrase came from. My guess is that they’re things from nature that alliterate, which makes it sound cute and innocent.

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      9 hours ago

      Birds, mostly males, get all flashy and showy to attract a mate, and bees all answer to the matriarch of the family, so it’s just like life. Obviously.

      Maybe the saying came from the mirror universe…