# If a fly married a mouse, which do you consider to be the most disgusting choice? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907 "2022-05-22T23:35:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/21 "2022-05-23T11:04:51Z")
On the other hand, maggots are more useful than baby mice, the little freeloaders. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/22 "2022-05-23T11:54:25Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The mention of anthropomorphic animals made my brain jump straight to Zipper vs. Gadget. Yeah, that was probably on the OPs mind, too. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/23 "2022-05-23T12:16:48Z")
Insects stick better than mammals: [![](https://www.hna.de/bilder/2012/02/14/1601170/896071969-fleischfressende-pflanzen-RzHG.jpg) ](https://www.hna.de/bilder/2012/02/14/1601170/896071969-fleischfressende-pflanzen-RzHG.jpg) Good thing too. > [@Grrr](#): > > Well, IDK, flies hang out on walls and they hear things that people desperately want to know. So I kinda feel like that should be part of the calculous. In German it is the mouse who provervially hears secrets, so if you would like to be in a secret place to hear what’s said there you often say: “Da wäre ich gerne Mäuschen (gewesen)”, that is: I would have liked to play the little mouse there. So now we have to take the nationallity of the mice and flies into account. Concerning the OP: I’d go with the mouse over the fly anytime. Mice are nice (it rhymes, so it must be true). ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/24 "2022-05-23T12:56:24Z")
Definitely the fly, for abandoning an earlier partner…as the song lyric goes: Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee The Fly has married the Bumble Bee Says the fly, says he “Will you marry me? And live with me, sweet Bumble Bee?” Fiddle-de-dee, Fiddle-de-dee The Fly has married the Bumble Bee ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/25 "2022-05-23T13:11:54Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > The Fly has married the Bumble Bee The “flies and the bees” doesn’t have the same ring, though. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/26 "2022-05-23T19:47:31Z")
ORLY? Try to feed a snek a maggot, see how far that takes you. Pinkies FTW! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/27 "2022-05-23T20:02:04Z")
Lucky! One of my sneks will only eat quail, the silly spoiled thing. The rest eat small rats or giant mice depending upon mood. But all my lizards loved hornworms. Hornworms are at least a bit cute. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/28 "2022-05-23T20:08:50Z")
I used to work in a pet shop and one of my jobs was feeding crickets to the anoles and my goodness, that was fun! Those little dudes are FAST! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/29 "2022-05-23T20:15:02Z")
Giant anoles = tons of fun. Tiny anoles = super cute, but guilt-making, as they are commonly feeder lizards. 😢 Back to the OP - another reason it would be bad for me to marry a mouse, the ghosts of countless rodents inhabit my house and my spouse-mouse would be possessed and murder me! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/30 "2022-05-23T20:17:46Z")
Yeah, my rodent karma is not great, I trap rats and feed them to the crows and I have a cat and a dog who are both pretty great at dispatching small squeaky cromchy things. I’m probably in the Rodent Pantheon of Evil somewhere. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/31 "2022-05-24T00:14:02Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Insects are always more disgusting than mammals. I’ve seen some cute mice. Never seen a cute fly. I used to raise praying mantises. I wouldn’t describe them as “cute”, but they’re better than mice. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/32 "2022-05-24T01:42:09Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I used to raise praying mantises. I wouldn’t describe them as “cute”, but they’re better than mice. They look like alien predators, are you kidding? Gives me the creeps. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/33 "2022-05-24T04:15:00Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/g1uNsCf.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/g1uNsCf.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/34 "2022-05-24T04:23:00Z")
Flies are way worse, there is nothing redeeming about them. I always trap them under cups and put in alcohol wipes to fumigate/gas-chamber them. Mice, at least, are cute. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/35 "2022-05-24T06:37:58Z")
Well, I’ve used a mouse during a lot of my sexual fantasies … ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907/36 "2022-05-24T18:59:16Z")
Watch the movie The Fly (the remake with Jeff Goldblum) and you won’t need to ask. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ovh_juW2rpU/maxresdefault.jpg "The Fly 1986 That's Disgusting Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovh_juW2rpU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-fly-married-a-mouse-which-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-disgusting-choice/964907.md?page=1)