# Robins and Bluejays **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 6, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044 "2007-02-06T04:13:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/41 "2007-04-13T14:48:52Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] “Adam and Steve” would be the perfect name for a gay wedding boutique. Just sayin’. [/QUOTE] Yeah, and the shoe store next to them can be _Imelda’s_, but only if there’s a large selection. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/42 "2007-04-13T15:53:03Z")
“‘Adam and Steve?’ Of course it’s not ‘Adam and Steve’. It’s Adam and STEVEN.” – David Rackoff [? Dan Savage?] ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/43 "2007-04-13T16:03:07Z")
Oh, thank God - I thought this was a rant because **Monty** couldn’t date outside his reading group. In case that is too [obscure a reference](http://books.heinemann.com/products/E00437.aspx) and someone thinks I’m flaming **Monty**. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/44 "2007-04-13T18:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=MsRobyn] b]FTR, “Turdus” is Latin for “thrush”. Robin [/QUOTE] Okay… so if the Robin mates with the Blue Jay, it gives her a yeast infection? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/45 "2007-04-13T18:47:58Z")
[Courtesy of yours truly’s drawing skills, I present to you: A robin mating with a bluejay.](http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o57/BC_Autolycus/Cute%20pictures/robinandbluejay.jpg)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/46 "2007-04-13T19:53:04Z")
African or European? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/47 "2007-04-13T20:27:51Z")
Fascinating! Spurred by Chowder’s post, I googled images of the English Robin (no links…do it yurownself), our bigger American Robin and then the African Robin. I didn’t even know that one existed but it sure looks related to the American one. Now wouldn’t that screw with the Dixie relatives. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/48 "2007-04-13T21:14:59Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] Is this the right thread to bitch about that damn robin that starts singing outside my window at 4:45AM? Curse you, early bird! [/QUOTE] Sic a blue jay on her! :eek: For those of you picturing birds with penis and vagina, forget it. They don’t have ‘em. Waste and sexual stuff all dump into a common pouch called the cloaca (Latin for sewer) in both sexes. When birds are feelin’ sexy, they turn the cloaca inside out, the male’s pouch dripping with sperm cells. The two cloacas touch briefly, and it’s done. (So, did the chicken or the egg come first? 😉 ) Here’s where somebody will tell me the proper plural for cloaca, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/49 "2007-04-13T21:25:09Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] “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? [/QUOTE] It sounds like the kind of thing that Dr. Phil would say. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/50 "2007-04-13T21:39:14Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] In today’s _Deseret Morning News_ is [this very interesting article](http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660211384,00.html). There are a few telling quotes in there and I’ll leave it to the reader to peruse the article at your leisure. What really impressed me the most, though, was this paragraph: So, that means that in the South (where I grew up), 39% of the White people say “Inter-racial marriages are not acceptable.” Cecil, you said it very well: Too bad those statistics quoted above aren’t 100% acceptance in both the West and the South. [/QUOTE] I know, I was on a work assignment in Alabama when they had a issue on the ballot to eliminate a provision in the state constitution that made interracial marriage illegal. The law violated the US constitution and was not enforceable, but was still on the books. It passed by about a 3:2 majority, but that still means that 4 out of 10 voters in Alabama were in favor of keeping interracial marriage illegal. There were more than 20 counties were the ban was voted to be kept. What the hell is wrong with people? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/51 "2007-04-13T21:45:57Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Here’s where somebody will tell me the proper plural for cloaca, I guess. Well, since you asked: cloacae. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044/52 "2007-04-16T18:11:59Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] Well, since you asked: cloacae. [/QUOTE] Thank you. My Latin knowledge begins and ends with Cuban jazz. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robins-and-bluejays/391044.md?page=2)