Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!reiher From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: joke schema Message-ID: <3733@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 19:38:54 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.3733 Posted: Tue Feb 5 19:38:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:19:53 EST References: <245@cheviot.UUCP> <5953@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 48 Summary: In article <5953@rochester.UUCP> nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) writes: >> All this is not unrelated to a song by Noel Coward which I can only half >> remember. It goes something like this... >> >> Can anyone supply the missing line, and some of the other verses?? >> Robert J Stroud, > >As I recall, the lines go > "Birds do it. > Bees do it. > Even educated fleas do it. > Let's do it, let's fall in love. >Nemo The original song is by Cole Porter. Noel Coward merely added some slightly more racy verses, such as: "They say that Belgians And Greeks do it. Nice young men who sell antiques do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love." "They say that every hor-mone does it. Mr. Portnoy all alone does it. Let's do it, let's fall in love." "E. Allen Poe Ho, ho, ho, did it, But he did it in verse. H. Beecher Stowe did it. But she had to rehearse." I believe that the "birds and bees" verse is Cole Porter's. Noel Coward wrote a lot of amusing, sometimes slightly naughty (that's definitely the right word) songs of his own, as well. I'm particularly fond of "Don't Put Your Daughter On the Stage, Mrs. Worthington", "Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" ("What explains this mass mania/To leave Pennsylvania?"), "The Passenger's Always Right" ("The passenger's always right, my boys,/the passenger's always right./The son of a bitch/is probably rich,/so smile with all your might."), and "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" -- Peter Reiher reiher@ucla-cs.arpa {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher