YES
(not solve yet, though)
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
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?
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
Presumably, it actually means when the parents had sex. The gametes merging can be up to a few days after that.
Was it the divider from the dark times before “must see tv”?
So a perceived lack of quality television content?
kk
In what decade did the Thursday events happen? 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s?
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?
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?
" 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.?
Basically the 70’s and 80’s, right up to 1987.
It is Iceland. (don’t google, it will come up immediately once you know the details and it is Iceland)
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.
Was the event related to sports? politics? music? pop culture?
Did the event relate to work schedules?
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).
NO
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.
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?
kk