# They wouldn't fly now

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wouldnt-fly-now/962825/149 "2022-04-17T16:07:58Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Here’s a bit more information about it.
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> [Show Me - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Me)!

From that Wikipedia article, it looks like it didn’t fly then, either, at least not in the U.S. Maybe it’s a better example of something that wouldn’t fly in the US, like the sex-ed video discussed in this thread:

> [@Could this sex-ed video work in the US classroom?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-sex-ed-video-work-in-the-us-classroom/720791):
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> Norwegian State Channel sex-education video (spoilered for NSFW content) Watch the damn thing. It’ll only take five minutes of your time and you may actually learn something. slight_smile I vaguely remember sex education. 8th grade health class. By that time, I’d already had my period for awhile, and I suspect I wasn’t the only one. We were shown no photographs or videos (though I did watch “Miracle of Life” in sixth grade science), though there were plenty of drawings of uteruses and fa…

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