# OK, anytime now, Beta-chan
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 24, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971 "2008-09-24T12:48:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/21 "2008-09-24T17:00:40Z")
I’ll take September 27th at 10:14 AM, as it’s a day that I always think is the birthday of someone I know, but it isn’t. So if Beta-chan makes her grand appearance on the 27th, I won’t have to wrack my brain every year trying to remember who’s birthday it is!
And if I’m right, I claim a cuddle with the baby as my reward, if you’re ever in my town! 😃
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### Author:  [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/22 "2008-09-24T17:09:21Z")
How about October 7, 9am?
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### Author:  [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/23 "2008-09-24T17:29:42Z")
October 4th. 11:42pm.
WooHoo!!
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/24 "2008-09-24T17:37:04Z")
I see **Savannah** already took part of my answer, but I’m going with it anyway:
Friday, October 10th, at 10:10 am.
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### Author:  [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/25 "2008-09-24T17:46:07Z")
I’m picking Oct 6 (I’m rather partial to it, as it’s my birthday as well) and I’m going to 3:18AM, because of no particular reason at all.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/26 "2008-09-24T17:55:48Z")
October 14, 5:20am.
She will be in good company, and much loved.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/27 "2008-09-24T18:02:51Z")
Um…I hope we didn’t send TOO many sticky-vibes.😃
My husband was born on Oct. 1, and so was my cousin. So I’ll pick 8 p.m. that day.
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### Author:  [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/28 "2008-09-24T18:51:37Z")
I’m picking John Lennon’s (and Sean Lennon’s) birthday, October 9. Let’s say 9:13 AM.
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### Author:  [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/29 "2008-09-24T18:55:57Z")
Yay for stickysticky Beta-chan! I pick October 8th at 3:54pm!
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### Author:  [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/30 "2008-09-24T18:59:14Z")
I’m gonna go with October 9th, 7:15PM.
There are a lot of people who can’t wait to welcome you to the world, Beta-chan!
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### Author:  [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/31 "2008-09-24T19:10:03Z")
I’ll go with my son’s due date, and the time he was actually born, twelve days later.
So, Oct. 3, 6:15 pm
Friday’s child is loving and giving.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/32 "2008-09-24T20:49:00Z")
October 8, 2pm. The date and hour of my wedding.
Un-sticky, Beta-chan!
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/33 "2008-09-24T20:58:12Z")
Beta-chan can come unstuck any old time he (or she) feels like it. As long as you guys get a happy, healthy baby out of it, I’m happy. 🆒
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/34 "2008-09-24T21:27:27Z")
> [@Nava](#):
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> I already picked October 7, Littlebro’s Birthday and the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto. Time? Uh… 22:53, Japan time.
I’m picking my exact birth time October 7, 12:24 AM Eastern Standard Time
or 1:24 PM in Japan, if I did that right.
BaneSidhe, 9 AM where? Competition is tough for 10/7 so we need to nail it down! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/35 "2008-09-24T22:00:35Z")
October 8th, 2:30PM.
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### Author:  [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/36 "2008-09-24T22:40:29Z")
October 6th, 1:43 AM!
Beta-chan, it’s time to become unsticky soon. We wanted you very sticky, which is good, but now you must learn to become slippery in the coming weeks.
Just not too slippery. Like my little brother was and when my mom was having her c-section.
And he slipped out of the doctor’s hands (barely picked up thankfully) and back into my mom’s tummy. Oof! 😛
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/37 "2008-09-24T23:25:20Z")
Friday October the 3rd. 11:58am EST.
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### Author:  [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/38 "2008-09-24T23:29:35Z")
I will say October 2 for my father’s birthday, and go with 10:02 AM.
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### Author:  [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/39 "2008-09-25T01:02:14Z")
This is great!
Unless otherwise noted, all times and dates are local, Tokyo time. If you specificy a US time and date, it will be converted over. Note that the date may change. A 3:00 pm EST will be 4:00 am the next date (because of the International Date Line).
My wife is uncomfortable, as expected, and not getting much rest at night. I read somewhere that this is nature’s way of getting the mother ready to be up all night with the newborn, but for what ever reason, she needs to get up hourly to drain her bladder, a thimble at a time. :o
We’re set! The bags are packed, the hospital number registered to all the phones, the car will be gassed tonight and the grandmothers are coming next week.
This is just incredible. It’s going to happen! All will be well! We can believe! We will soon [del]see[/del] hold, smother, kiss, bounce, smell, embrace, cuddle, and cradle, Beta!
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### Author:  [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-anytime-now-beta-chan/464971/40 "2008-09-25T01:07:53Z")
I pick October 9th at 10:34 in the morning. I’m so excited for the **TokyoPlayer** family!
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