# What's your opinion on "Darling Lili", an old American movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 12, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403 "2022-12-12T17:37:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/221 "2022-12-19T13:48:52Z")
I love this place. I don’t know a lot about the Middle East. Like the Flock of Seagulls sang, “Iran: So Far Away.” ---
**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:** [December 19, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/222 "2022-12-19T15:12:10Z")
Something something Ashurbanipal. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/223 "2022-12-19T23:36:28Z")
This thread’s still Kuwait interesting. – Got the goods? – Yemen. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/224 "2022-12-20T01:26:14Z")
Well, then, Babylon! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/225 "2022-12-20T03:51:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Something something Ashurbanipal. > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > This thread’s still Kuwait interesting. > > – Got the goods? > – Yemen. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Babylon > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Something something Ashurbanipal. > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > This thread’s still Kuwait interesting. > > – Got the goods? > – Yemen. Points deducted for not being about Persia or Persians. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/226 "2022-12-20T04:21:46Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Points deducted for not being about Persia or Persians. Were too? All those places were part of the Persian Empire at some point, even if nowadays we don’t tend to associate them with Persia/Iran. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/227 "2022-12-20T13:36:43Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > All those places were part of the Persian Empire at some point, even if nowadays we don’t tend to associate them with Persia/Iran. So in punning about Rome, you would give points to a reference to the First Dynasty of Egypt, because at some point Italy and Egypt were part of the Roman Empire, even though the First Dynasty was 3,000 years before the Romans conquered Egypt? Or you would accept a reference to Stonehenge, even though it was completed some 2,500 years before the Romans conquered Britain? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/228 "2022-12-20T13:38:39Z")
Checks own modnote … Well OK, I guess this is within the guidelines. Carry on all. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/229 "2022-12-20T13:44:42Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > > [@Kimstu](#): > > > > All those places were part of the Persian Empire at some point, even if nowadays we don’t tend to associate them with Persia/Iran. > > So in punning about Rome you would give points to a reference to the First Dynasty of Egypt, because at some point Italy and Egypt were part of the Roman Empire, even though the First Dynasty was 3,000 years before the Romans conquered Egypt? Or you would accept a reference to Stonehenge, even though it was completed some 2,500 years before the Romans conquered Britain? Ooh, that’s a real kick in the Zoroaster! Okay, okay, but all the good Persia-related puns have been used already… ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/230 "2022-12-20T13:53:31Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Ooh, that’s a real kick in the Zoroaster! > > Okay, okay, but all the good Persia-related puns have been used already… Standards are important! Like Russian films in America! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/231 "2022-12-20T14:00:41Z")
Nice job of bringing it back around. Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/232 "2022-12-20T14:12:49Z")
In Soviet Russia, industry films YOU. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/233 "2022-12-20T14:35:47Z")
How’s this for covering both? > **[Persian cat at cat show in Moscow Stock Photo - Alamy](https://www.alamy.com/persian-cat-at-cat-show-in-moscow-image211709575.html)** > > Download this stock image: Persian cat at cat show in Moscow. - P8C5M7 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/234 "2022-12-20T14:48:42Z")
Y’all seem to have run off the OP. Please, _tovarich_, come back to thread, tells us more of glorious Soviet cinema, for confounding decadent Western bourgeoisie and uplifting proletariat masses! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/235 "2022-12-20T14:53:45Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Nice job of bringing it back around. > > Excellent. Unfortunately, I can’t accept the praise. Because the _actual_ topic of this thread is … _“Darling Lili,” an old American movie_ … apparently …? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/236 "2022-12-20T14:58:32Z")
Whenever I see the title of this thread, I think of the Prince song “Darling Nikki.” But, then, that song definitely would have ticked off the OP, because it’s not just “semi-pornographical,” it’s full-on pornographical. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/237 "2022-12-20T16:26:12Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Y’all seem to have run off the OP. Please, _tovarich_, come back to thread, tells us more of glorious Soviet cinema, for confounding decadent Western bourgeoisie and uplifting proletariat masses! Tsar-y, not Sari. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/238 "2022-12-20T16:47:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > it’s full-on pornographical. Do they even _have_ pornographs in Russia? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/239 "2022-12-20T16:58:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Do they even _have_ pornographs in Russia? If my sources, yeah, that seems right, sources are telling me the truth, Russian pornographs supply about half the young ladies that can be seen ‘acting’ at different places around the web. Since I haven’t got a cite to share, you’ll just have to trust my source. Now - Russian phonographs on the other hand are quite scarce. I don’t think the electronics Industry’s main goal in the USSR was to create HiFi products. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403/240 "2022-12-20T17:55:00Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > Russian pornographs supply about half the young ladies that can be seen ‘acting’ at different places around the web. Since I haven’t got a cite to share, you’ll just have to trust my source. You should watch an episode of (_ **Izmeny** _ “Betrayals,” the late-night Russian knockoff of _ **Cheaters** _) sometime. There’s enough non-simulated sex in one to give even Putin a hard-on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-darling-lili-an-old-american-movie/976403.md?page=13)