# Re-watching My Fair Lady

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-my-fair-lady/991329>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [October 9, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-my-fair-lady/991329 "2023-10-09T20:23:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-watching-my-fair-lady/991329/61 "2023-10-17T21:45:44Z")

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> [@bob\_2](#):
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> You make the erroneous assumption that men cannot live without sex.

Gershwin covered that in _Porgy and Bess_

Methus’lah lived nine hundred years  
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years  
But who calls dat livin’  
When no gal will give in  
To no man what’s nine hundred years?

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