“The Robin doesn’t mate with the bluejay!”
Do you think uttering that makes you sound intelligent? Do you think it has any validity whatsoever to human relationships?
Well, it doesn’t! In the first place, robins and bluejays are different species. In the second place, humans constitute one species. There isn’t one human species in your hometown and a different species of human in your neighbor’s town. Shame youd didn’t learn that in college–or anywhere else for that matter.
To be fair, the robin’s genus is “turdus,” which might make a bluejay think twice.
Not that I disagree with your rant.
When has anyone ever uttered it?
Silly me. All this time I thought metaphors weren’t supposed to be taken literally.
I hear it a lot from certain relatives.
Well, shit. I know not to mate with a bluebird. They’re noisy and obnoxious. And while I know the genus name is “Turdus”, I take umbrage to that. 
[sub]FTR, “Turdus” is Latin for “thrush”.[/sub]
Robin
I’ve never heard this phrase and I don’t know what it means.
Is it supposed to keep you from having sex with people from other towns? I don’t get it…
You know, sometimes I get the idea that the people who say things like “robins don’t mate wth bluejays” are the same people who say things like “God created Adam and EVE, not Adam and STEVE.”
I would just like to point out that they can’t have it both ways (because, really, that would be breaking ALL the rules.)
I have heard this MANY times. Mostly from my grandparents, the ones who were so pissed that the blacks wanted to use the new public pool; “We gave them the old one!”
Reminds me of the Chris Rock joke: “In every town, there are two malls: The one white people go to, and the one white people used to go to.”
Old Southern saying which means, “Don’t marry outside of your race.”
These, by the way, are the same relatives who think “it’s not as bad” for a White man to marry a Black woman as it is for a Black man to marry a White woman.
What really gets me is they didn’t act or talk like that not so long ago. Now that they’re entering their old age, they’re really giving up thinking. They’ve even turned into Creationists practically overnight!
Odd thing, they’ve both said that very thing. And, yet, their church has ordained gay priests. I wonder why they stick with that church, then?
Best suggestion I ever heard (I think it was a doper who said it) is to ask things like “Steve who?”, “Where did Steve come from then?”
That’s hot.
Once, when having a minor quarrel with my spouse, I bitched to a guy friend who happens to be gay. His response made me laugh: “That’s what happens when you are in a mixed marriage. Men and women just aren’t meant to be together!”
To be fair, Adam and Steve’s genus is “Homo”.
Or the red robin and the bluejay could be metaphors for the two main political partties in the US. So Republicans shouldn’t marry Democrats, and vice versa.
I never heard that, but it rings so true in Portland.
That may be true, but the Batman mates with the Robin.
BTW, how do your relatives know robins never mate with bluejays? I mean, when a redbreast is feeling horny and there are no robin-hens around . . . 