# What happened to the Wright Brothers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-wright-brothers/708990>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-wright-brothers/708990 "2015-01-04T23:35:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-wright-brothers/708990/41 "2015-05-10T01:14:50Z")

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> [@Idilia\_Dubb](#):
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> Does anybody know why they didn’t marry?

They were what was known as “confirmed bachelors”, to use the closeted terms of that time.

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-wright-brothers/708990/42 "2015-05-10T13:04:08Z")

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> [@Alex\_from\_CB](#):
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> One of the brothers, don’t recall which one, hit on both of The Wong sisters. (Betty & Sally). They turned him down flat, proving… …2 Wongs won’t \*make \*a Wright.

So that’s where Calwell got the joke from ([mindless political commentator](https://archiearchive.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/two-wongs-dont-make-a-white/))

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