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My birthday is just over nine months after my parents' anniversary. My brother's birthday is almost exactly nine months after my father's birthday. Can you link your conception back to a special event or celebration?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

No.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan let me explain how this works.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Christmas party, above a shop in Barnet.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

God No.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.napierchronicles.co.uk/1972.htm

I would like to think it was Ian Gillan's shock resignation from Deep Purple, but was probably more like to have been events in Uganda.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I got pregnant after a particularly good Sunday Vodka Syndicate. Had little Sterling survived, s/he could have blamed the Speed of Sound's kick-ass garage rock.

― kate, Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It was a summer night, Bille Jean was number 1 (YES!) and Brendan and Joan decided er......OH NO! PARENT FAN FICTION! OH NO!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

*calculates* Hm. Must have been a memorable 1970 Memorial Day weekend in my case.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:02 (twenty-three years ago)

(Ew. I can't think of any reason my parents may have done it. Perhaps my mother had eaten a Ryvita or something that day and the conception of little old me was her reward. Oh gross).

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently my parents tried to conceive little ole me for three years before it actually happened. It was no celebration or drunken mistake. :(

― Mandee, Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

You wanted to be a drunken mistake?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

It might have been the film debut of Rocky.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a friend called 'Loveday'. becuase she was conceived on the day her parents set aside once a year as their 'love day'.

― jon (jon), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Either that or they knew Elvis would die that summer and timed me to serve as his replacement.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Time to work on that quiff then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

N., it would have given me a reason to be an overachiever, or.. somethin'.

― Mandee, Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

(Tracer wins a boot to the head for being the first person to make the Blatant Dan Perry Joke.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

It must have been the 1971 Sylmar quake for me.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

HAHA DtotheB is the result of terror sex! RAWK.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, given the timing, DB might well have been conceived the day I was born -- a doubtless momentous event that resulted in the earthquake and other signs. Thus DB owes existence to me. Hurrah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

a luxury room at lake louise.

― anthony (anthony), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

My mother once mentioned something about a beach holiday, but I'm really not inclined to inquire further.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

So we all think our parents only had sex on special occasions, do we? I remember noticing as a kid that my birthday was within two days of being nine months after my dad's, and my younger brother was born six days short of nine months after my second birthday - then years later I learnt that we were both adopted. This is the sort of coincidence that has little or no significance.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

it involved a new jethro tull album and a bottle of boones farm apple wine.

i hate you dan perry.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Martin: I know my parents had sex more often than on special occasions. They weren't always quiet about it and our bedrooms shared a wall. Eek the horror all rushes back to me now.

Um, what was I saying? Oh yeah, the question is less about that than it is about whether you were a special occasion baby or not. That's all.

Jess: Aw. "Aqualung" must be your favorite song.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

My brother and I both have November birthdays, within a few days of each other (though in different years, obv). It never really occurred to me before, but on checking the calendar it seems that our birthdays are almost exactly 40 weeks (i.e. gestation time) after Valentine's Day which adds weight to the theory that my parents probably only ever had sex once a year, whether they wanted to or not.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 19 September 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They weren't always quiet about it and our bedrooms shared a wall.

You can stop right there. Should you continue at any point in the future, I will see you destroyed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 September 2002 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I amde love to Nicke Datoore

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Even though I know my parents tried for six months before I was conceived, my birthday comes 40 weeks aftre my mothers. Hmmmm.

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm amazed there were any replies to a thread where any reply involves thinking about your folks having sex. Pass.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

In otherwards, Kilian is deeply embarassed that he resulted from his parents coming back from that gig on U2's War tour and that they sang "Two Hearts Beat as One" to each other before they did the deed. I sympathize with this trauma.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:21 (twenty-three years ago)

sex

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you still at it while you're trying to type Mike?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Miners strikes => power cuts => how do we keep warm? => 1970 baby boom. Add a scare about the side effects of the contraceptive pill into the bargain and hey presto.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 20 September 2002 06:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you have an explanation for what, in these parts, seems to be a 1973 baby boom, Mark? Their parents can't all have been inspired by Donny Osmond's 1972 #1 Puppy Love, can they?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Parents' 23rd birthdays. Parents' DOB's one day apart hence I know what they were doing at midnight. Summer of Love just beginning.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, my parents were aware that it was "now or never." And it was: after me they were unable to have any other children.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 20 September 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

a Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway record, which to this day i have never been able to put on the family turntable. or touch.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 20 September 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Thankfully, I have absolutely no idea.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

My mother told me where I was conceived. Not sure why she wanted me to know. Quite certain I didn't want to know.

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloody hippies with their TMI! ;).

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me about it. This came a little after she apologised for smacking me when i was 4. Obviously, it'd been preying on her mind for the last 20 years, whereas I had written it off as an amusing anecdote. This last year she's a got a lot better and now only tells me things like 'The christmas tree told me it's name is Blod'. What really, can I say to that?

― alix (alix), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

My sister happened cause of "Maggie May."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

There was another similar thread recently about this.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

do you reckon the minutes leading up to your own conception were good or pretty poor? how long did he last? did she cum?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Lixi, tell your mum the tree had a word and it's changing its name by deed poll.

*We* also had, when growing up, a talking Christmas tree that said it was very very cold and we could help it by vigorously rubbing its branches (this was really my most entertaining uncle speaking through an office intercom connected to a small tinny speaker under the tree, to create innuendo and amusement for bored adults nearby).

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i was conceived in a frat house that my father was president of at SSC in Massachusetts. According to both parents...whilst Marvin Gayes "Lets Get It On" LP played on the stereo.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanksgiving

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Um...my parents were introduced by mutual friends at a Heart concert.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 2 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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― LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 11 August 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

september 28 - pretty much 9 months to the day after new years eve. although i understand i was about a week overdue. so potentially it was actually christmas.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 11 August 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

Holiday in Corfu. I believe I was conceived in a straw hut at Club Med.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 11 August 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

I was born nine months and two days after my sister's second birthday, and my brother was born nine months and two weeks after her ninth birthday. I imagine it was a celebratory shag following our sister's birthday parties. A frightening thought.

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Thursday, 11 August 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

Are there people who do stunt conceptions so that they (and I guess eventually their kids once they get over ew my parents have sex) have a cool story to tell when someone asks them about their conception? So they don't have to say, "My mom poked my dad on the shoulder and told him she wanted to fool around, just like she did every Wednesday night" or "Ew, I don't know" or whatever?

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 13:42 (thirteen years ago)

oh god I looked this up and I was conceived within a week or so of Reagan being nominated at the republican national convention

whhhyyyyyy

― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 3 August 2012 13:45 (thirteen years ago)

maybe it was just wednesday, don't worry

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 13:46 (thirteen years ago)

I checked Jan. 25, 1961: my parents were celebrating either a) JFK's first-ever televised news conference by a president or b) the release of 101 Dalmatians.

― clemenza, Friday, 3 August 2012 13:49 (thirteen years ago)

my birthday is exactly 9 months after my dad's birthday. my son's birthday is exactly 9 months after new year's day.

― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, 3 August 2012 13:49 (thirteen years ago)

Had I been born on the day on my mom's due date it would have been 9 months today from my dad's birthday. I only just now realized this after counting back because of the thread. What I do know is that they were en route from Colorado back to NY and that it happened in a Ramada Inn somewhere and that my mom had eaten egg and beet salad which she claims must have been magic babby food.

― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 3 August 2012 13:52 (thirteen years ago)

The semen probably helped, I would think.

― your native bacon (mh), Friday, 3 August 2012 13:53 (thirteen years ago)

the miner's strike

― thomp, Friday, 3 August 2012 13:56 (thirteen years ago)

Like ENBB, only this thread has ever made me think about this but apparently I was conceived around the Idus Martii.

― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Friday, 3 August 2012 14:06 (thirteen years ago)

it happened in a Ramada Inn

ah, the Ramada Inn.

my original question remains: do people who are trying to conceive do it in outlandish places or at noteworthy times purposely so that they have a good story to tell when someone asks about the circumstances of the conception of their child?

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 14:07 (thirteen years ago)

I thought about this because of the Mars rover landing on Sunday. Apparently there is a delay between the time the rover lands and the second the broadcast reaches Earth. So during those 7 minutes, the last 7 minutes before maybe we get to see what Mars looks like, people will attempt (probably furiously because 7 min?) to conceive babby.

At 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, after nearly nine months of travel, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission (with a rover named Curiosity) will arrive at the Red Planet.
The $2.5 billion rover will begin a two-year quest to explore the interior of Mars' Gale Crater and hunt for evidence of an ancient ocean there. But before this hunt can begin, Curiosity has to land.
The Mars Science Laboratory landing sequence has been the topic of much discussion even before the mission launched on Nov. 26, 2011. Nicknamed "seven minutes of terror," the spacecraft's entry, descent and landing sequence will require a lot of things to go perfectly right — all before anyone on Earth receives even a single signal, due to the length of time it takes for information to travel from Mars to Earth.

http://www.space.com/16878-mars-rover-landing-sky-crane-guide.html

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 14:19 (thirteen years ago)

I guess the answer is no, people do not do (OR will not cop to having done) this.

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 14:40 (thirteen years ago)

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/10/oct-5-americas-most-common-birthday/

And why is Oct. 5 such a popular day for babies’ entering the world? One possible explanation is that the length of an average pregnancy is around 274 days. Counting backward, the date of conception for Oct. 5 babies would be New Year’s Eve.

― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 3 August 2012 14:41 (thirteen years ago)

why is that :/

― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:19 (thirteen years ago)

I'm a Valentine's day baby, I know many people born around November 14th!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

er by that I mean I was born 9 months after VDay, not on the day. I may share a birthday with tza's sister judging by upthread!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:24 (thirteen years ago)

wait until all the Chick-Fil-A babies start turning up next year

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:26 (thirteen years ago)

offical uk singles chart for my conception

The Power Of Love
By Frankie Goes To Hollywood

I Should Have Known Better
By Jim Diamond

The Riddle The Riddle
By Nik Kershaw

Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
By Eurythmics

Teardrops Teardrops
By Shakin' Stevens

I Feel For You
By Chaka Khan

I Won't Run Away
By Alvin Stardust

Like A Virgin
By Madonna

We All Stand Together
By Paul McCartney And The Frog Chorus

Never Ending Story
By Limahl

― Crackle Box, Friday, 3 August 2012 15:29 (thirteen years ago)

aw that's sweet
fly a fantaseeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:36 (thirteen years ago)

anyway for me, my parents claimed it was a huge storm
this one http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/1886-1974.php

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:52 (thirteen years ago)

i was born in 1887

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 15:53 (thirteen years ago)

since i was born in the 50s this is not a subject that ever come up in conversation w/my parents and i prefer not to speculate

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

tho i am glad it happened, whatever it was #divineinspiration

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

it wasn't Elvis's appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, was it

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

Someone was saying the other day that second and third children have a bigger chance of being born in June and July since the first kid starts school in September after 5 years at home and the parents have a little bit more time to themselves. I'm still wondering whether that's likely or not.

― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Friday, 3 August 2012 16:54 (thirteen years ago)

xpost

I would love to have been "inspired" by Elvis but his last Sullivan appearance was Jan 1957 and I was born 12/28/57 so that's mathematically impossible. but the USSR performed nuclear tests that spring so maybe it was an apocalyptic tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999 thing.

I am definitely a cold-war baby

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:06 (thirteen years ago)

anyway my parents didn't dig rock and roll until the Beatles added strings on "Yesterday"

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:08 (thirteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/LG611.jpg

― diamonddave85, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:23 (thirteen years ago)

oh god no

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:23 (thirteen years ago)

I would rather be a Chick-Fil-A baby

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:24 (thirteen years ago)

i would much rather be a mars landing baby!

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:24 (thirteen years ago)

well yeah, it would be awesome to be a Mars landing baby

but if you had to choose a hideously embarrassing event to lead into your conception, would you rather it was due to yr mom loving the kinky fuckery or yr dad eating gay-hating chicken?

actually writing that out, I think I'd rather not exist

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:26 (thirteen years ago)

Not mutually exclusive, actually, DJP. It could be a double whammy.

― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:58 (thirteen years ago)

Fifty shades of grey, homophobic fried chicken just sounds awful doesn't it?

― sive gallus et mulier (Michael White), Friday, 3 August 2012 18:00 (thirteen years ago)

i don't think it was a result of Ted Bundy's first murder or Patty Hearst's kidnapping, or the premiere of Good Times, or even that it was an odd-number gas day.

― sarahell, Friday, 3 August 2012 18:09 (thirteen years ago)

it is possible that the electrifying presence of Jimmy "J.J." Walker led to my conception, but more likely, it was a couple of glasses of wine with dinner

― sarahell, Friday, 3 August 2012 18:27 (thirteen years ago)

haha, imagine if the mere presence of Jimmy Walker was an aphrodisiac

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 18:28 (thirteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Good_Times_-_Jimmie_Walker_(J.J._Evans).jpg

"Get to rammin', folks!"

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 18:29 (thirteen years ago)

i did not know that "good times" was a spin-off of Maude!

― sarahell, Friday, 3 August 2012 18:32 (thirteen years ago)

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BOTkzNDg0ODg4MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDEwOTEz._V1._SY314_CR16,0,214,314_.jpg
Time to procreate, humans.

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 3 August 2012 18:34 (thirteen years ago)

My dad told me they'd been married two years, and in church one week the bishop gave a talk about how some of the young marrieds in the ward were putting off their duty to be fruitful and multiply. And then nine months later there were five new babies at church, one of which was me.

― Crabbits, Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

I can't imagine how sexy that must have been? "Brother Monson told us we have to, better turn off Victory Garden and get to it."

― Crabbits, Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:43 (thirteen years ago)

a little disappointed that enbb wasn't named 'ramada'

― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 August 2012 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

I think my event was probably alcohol and raging hormones. My parents were 18 and 20.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:03 (thirteen years ago)

(Every now and again I am tempted to ask: so was I an "accident" or not. But I don't want them to really reply to it. And hey I doubt I was planned.)

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:04 (thirteen years ago)

It'd be cool to imagine that my folks were two hippies who hooked up at the First Human Be-In in January of 67, but that's 85 shades of implausible

― aerosmith suck because their corporate rock that sucks (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 5 August 2012 04:33 (thirteen years ago)

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