# Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 23, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193 "2019-10-23T21:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 125
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2481 "2020-03-11T17:40:31Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Is the day of the week related to something that was on TV or other event that took place regularly on Thursday evenings? And resulted in parents having sex afterwards (or during)? YES (not solve yet, though) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2482 "2020-03-11T18:06:55Z")
Was the TV show X-Files? (From Bloodhound Gang’s _The Bad Touch_: “And then we’ll do it doggie style So we can both watch X-Files”) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2483 "2020-03-11T18:17:34Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Was the TV show X-Files? > > (From Bloodhound Gang’s _The Bad Touch_: “And then we’ll do it doggie style So we can both watch X-Files”) NO ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2484 "2020-03-11T18:47:43Z")
I was going to say Baywatch, but that was apparently a Friday or Monday show. What old Thursday night show was going to get parents frisky? Buck Rogers? Cheers? Seinfeld? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2485 "2020-03-11T19:01:58Z")
To clear up a potential misconception: Was it a TV show? Was it some other event that happens regularly on Thursdays? He hasn’t actually said yet that it was a TV show, so don’t assume that it is. Whatever it is, it appears that it’s an event that stopped occurring when the students were at most infants (hence why freshmen wouldn’t make the jokes), but that it’s nonetheless one that all of the students were familiar with (else they wouldn’t make the joke at all). Is this correct? Also, a nitpick, but > [@](#): > > Does “conceived” mean when the daddy sperm fertilized the mommy ova? > > YES Presumably, it actually means when the parents had sex. The gametes merging can be up to a few days after that. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2486 "2020-03-11T19:07:32Z")
Was it the divider from the dark times before “must see tv”? So a perceived lack of quality television content? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2487 "2020-03-11T19:44:28Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I was going to say Baywatch, but that was apparently a Friday or Monday show. > > What old Thursday night show was going to get parents frisky? Buck Rogers? Cheers? Seinfeld? > > NO to everything here > [@Chronos](#): > > To clear up a potential misconception: > > Was it a TV show? > > NO > > Was it some other event that happens regularly on Thursdays? > > YES > > He hasn’t actually said yet that it was a TV show, so don’t assume that it is. > > Whatever it is, it appears that it’s an event that stopped occurring when the students were at most infants (hence why freshmen wouldn’t make the jokes), but that it’s nonetheless one that all of the students were familiar with (else they wouldn’t make the joke at all). Is this correct? > > YES > > Also, a nitpick, but > > Presumably, it actually means when the parents had sex. The gametes merging can be up to a few days after that. > > YES, they all say they were conceived on Thursday, but they mean the day their birth parents had the sex that created them. I get that it isn’t always immediate, but it is just colloquial to say “conceived on a Thursday” for the same meaning. > [@Folly](#): > > Was it the divider from the dark times before “must see tv”? > > You need to explain to me this one again. I don’t know what “divider” is. > > So a perceived lack of quality television content? > > YES, but I still don’t think you have it. kk ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2488 "2020-03-11T19:47:41Z")
In what decade did the Thursday events happen? 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2489 "2020-03-11T19:58:36Z")
Was this some event (or lack of event) that happened for 3 years only, on Thursday nights, to coincide with the birth years of the sophomores, juniors, and seniors? Would this joke work in other nearby towns? Other states in the US? Other countries? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2490 "2020-03-11T20:08:17Z")
So, it was an event that used to be on a Thursday for several years, then wasn’t. Is that right? Was it changed to a different day? Abolished altogether? Was the Thursday event some sort of party? Was the Thursday event held weekly? Monthly? Annually? Some other regular interval? Some irregular interval? Was it a high school prom? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2491 "2020-03-11T20:49:06Z")
" Was it the divider from the dark times before “must see tv”? You need to explain to me this one again. I don’t know what “divider” is. " I’m guessing the answer is No then. “Must See TV Thursday” was started in the 80s by NBC? I think. So there would be some dividing line of conception before and after Must See TV. If you are not watching TV, you might be getting frisk-eee. It was a stretch. Did this happen in the U.S? One or more countries that are not the U.S.? A single country that is not the U.S.? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2492 "2020-03-11T21:22:57Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > In what decade did the Thursday events happen? 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s? Basically the 70’s and 80’s, right up to 1987. > [@Telemark](#): > > Was this some event (or lack of event) that happened for 3 years only, on Thursday nights, to coincide with the birth years of the sophomores, juniors, and seniors? > > NO > > Would this joke work in other nearby towns? Other states in the US? Other countries? > > Other towns - yes > Other states in the US - no > Other countries - no > > (not in the USA in the first place, mind you) > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > So, it was an event that used to be on a Thursday for several years, then wasn’t. Is that right? > > Yes, kind of. > > Was it changed to a different day? Abolished altogether? > > Abolished. > > Was the Thursday event some sort of party? > > NO > > Was the Thursday event held weekly? Monthly? Annually? Some other regular interval? Some irregular interval? > > Every week on Thursday. > > Was it a high school prom? > > NO > [@Folly](#): > > " Was it the divider from the dark times before “must see tv”? > > You need to explain to me this one again. I don’t know what “divider” is. " > > I’m guessing the answer is No then. “Must See TV Thursday” was started in the 80s by NBC? I think. So there would be some dividing line of conception before and after Must See TV. If you are not watching TV, you might be getting frisk-eee. It was a stretch. > > NOTHING TO DO WITH MUST SEE TV > Did this happen in the U.S? > > NO > > One or more countries that are not the U.S.? > > YES > > A single country that is not the U.S.? > > YES It is Iceland. (don’t google, it will come up immediately once you know the details and it is Iceland) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2493 "2020-03-12T02:22:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Also, a nitpick, but > > Presumably, it actually means when the parents had sex. The gametes merging can be up to a few days after that. Dude, I was just being facetious. There’s lots of euphemisms for sex, like “did they form the beast with two backs,” “did they make whoopee,” “did they rut like rats” and so forth. I wasn’t teaching biology class. I thought that would be obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2494 "2020-03-12T10:45:30Z")
Was the event related to sports? politics? music? pop culture? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2495 "2020-03-12T11:28:43Z")
Did the event relate to work schedules? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2496 "2020-03-12T11:36:10Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Was the event related to sports? politics? music? pop culture? I’d say all of those, really. None more than the other, either. Just kind of all of those. (good question if you think laterally). > [@Chronos](#): > > Did the event relate to work schedules? NO ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2497 "2020-03-12T12:44:49Z")
Did Iceland have some sort of “Thursday night in” concept where public events and entertainment were avoided or unavailable that night? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2498 "2020-03-12T13:17:23Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Did Iceland have some sort of “Thursday night in” concept where public events and entertainment were avoided or unavailable that night? NO…uh, rethink your thinking a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2499 "2020-03-12T17:54:30Z")
So, it was an event of some sort that took place on Thursdays in the '70s and '80s that spanned the gamut of sports/pop culture/politics in Iceland, that encouraged, or seemed to encourage, adults to have sex? Was the event organized by a single group? Was the purpose of the event to encourage adults to have sex? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193/2500 "2020-03-12T18:44:41Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > So, it was an event of some sort that took place on Thursdays in the '70s and '80s that spanned the gamut of sports/pop culture/politics in Iceland, that encouraged, or seemed to encourage, adults to have sex? > > Encourage is not quite the right word. But yes, it kind of did. > > Was the event organized by a single group? Was the purpose of the event to encourage adults to have sex? > > Single Group - I am not sure(yes?) > The purpose was not, to my knowledge, to encourage sex. kk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=124) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lateral-thinking-puzzles-lets-do-it-again/842193.md?page=126)