# They wouldn't fly now **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 14, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825 "2022-04-14T14:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/21 "2022-04-14T16:56:12Z")
How about in real life? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/22 "2022-04-14T16:58:49Z")
Good one! ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/23 "2022-04-14T17:17:06Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > Another was “The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun”. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/24 "2022-04-14T17:34:08Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > (just saw an episode of Andy Griffith - Otis is in jail overnight because he hit his mother-in-law hard enough to require s dentist’s treatment; he’s out later that day) He was trying to hit his wife with a leg of lamb, and missed. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/25 "2022-04-14T18:10:25Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I got into an argument with another kid when I was in the 4th grade in the 50s over that very thing. His parents were fairly progressive for the time and had taught him not to use the “N” word. Guess my parents were fairly progressive? Or we lived in a more progressive area? But I also grew up in the 50s, and we always called them Brazil nuts. I think I was in my teens before I first heard the other name. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > He was trying to hit his wife with a leg of lamb, and missed. A real life Lamb to the Slaughter? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/26 "2022-04-14T18:14:48Z")
Sure, if you think Mayberry is “real life”. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/27 "2022-04-14T18:32:45Z")
By your examples I guess you would not like [The Kinks “Art Lover”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlLnkBFyno) either. Following **Darren\_Garrison** ’s example I regret that neither [Azhdarchidae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhdarchidae) nor [Nyctosauridae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctosauridae) will fly no more. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/28 "2022-04-14T18:39:10Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Riding in the back of an open Pick-up truck. We did it all the time back in the day. Yep. Came here to post that. 😛 Ringo said he won’t sing "_You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful_ " like he used to. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8ainB6qnWBI/maxresdefault.jpg "Ringo Starr - You're Sixteen You're Beautiful (And You're Mine)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ainB6qnWBI) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/29 "2022-04-14T19:14:51Z")
Rock stars with underage girlfriends, e.g. Jimmy Page, David Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/30 "2022-04-14T19:46:39Z")
Smoking just about anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/31 "2022-04-14T22:49:36Z")
Yeah. Smoking in offices, planes, hospital waiting rooms, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/32 "2022-04-15T01:11:02Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > By your examples I guess you would not like [The Kinks “Art Lover”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlLnkBFyno) either. Just what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/33 "2022-04-15T01:17:40Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Ringo said he won’t sing " _You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful_ " like he used to. _Damn_, Carrie Fisher was beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/34 "2022-04-15T01:43:40Z")
I’m pretty turned off by Sweet Caroline, and around here that gets played all the time, and then people start shouting and pumping there arms during the song like “Yeah, go old man, touch that 11 year old girl”. And I happened to love her myself when she was 11 and I was 12 you slimy bastard. Anyway this is a complete digression because that stupid song is very popular and flying right now. Nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/35 "2022-04-15T01:52:11Z")
Neil Diamond may have been inspired by an eleven-year-old Caroline Kennedy but it’s not necessarily _about_ her; in 2014, he [said](https://www.today.com/popculture/neil-diamond-reveals-sweet-caroline-secret-today-1D80228037) it was about his wife at the time. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/36 "2022-04-15T02:11:52Z")
Well of course that’s what he’s gonna say. But he could have just said it was about his wife right from the beginning. In what way did my should have been 11 year old girl friend remind him of his wife? ---
**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:** [April 15, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/37 "2022-04-15T05:00:38Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Guess my parents were fairly progressive? Or we lived in a more progressive area? But I also grew up in the 50s, and we always called them Brazil nuts. I think I was in my teens before I first heard the other name. I grew up in the '50s, and always called them Brazil nuts. I didn’t hear the other name till I was an adult. And how about corporal punishment by teachers? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/38 "2022-04-15T05:04:02Z")
Ostriches. And penguins. But I guess they wouldn’t fly back then, either. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/39 "2022-04-15T05:18:29Z")
Drinking and driving. My recollection is that in the 60s (and earlier, I assume) no one thought much of knocking back a few drinks and driving home afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/40 "2022-04-15T05:38:31Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Ostriches. And penguins. Has the emotional support animal window closed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825.md?page=3)