# Who was conceived in what year? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520 "2008-03-07T22:10:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/21 "2008-03-08T00:14:09Z")
Mid to late September 1963. Spring and a young man’s fancy? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/22 "2008-03-08T00:57:02Z")
My parents never told me any details about the conception. I’m guessing it wasn’t a one-time event and therefore didn’t stick in the mind. The calculator puts it at April 12 to April 20 1955. They did mention that I got past a diaphragm. They had been married for a while, but were trying to wait until they could afford to have children. As in, until they could afford to have Mom quit her job. They also mentioned that Dad had been a little early. I was in junior high at the time and they were taking the opportunity to impress on me that I came from very fertile stock. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/23 "2008-03-08T01:22:57Z")
I think I was a Thanksgiving goose, but then again, my folks lived in Alaska when I was conceived so I could just lay it to overall cold weather. I was born July 9 and by that time we were in Florida. Coincidentally, it was 39 years ago today that I conceived my son. Yeah, it was a Friday night back in 1969 too. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/24 "2008-03-08T01:23:46Z")
1. My mom’s birthday. They told me the story once. ::_shudder_:: ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/25 "2008-03-08T01:53:47Z")
I was due the first week of August, 1964, came two weeks late. So, conception was shortly after JFK was killed. My youngest, conceived about 12:15 AM, January 1, 2001. What a way to start out the millenium! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/26 "2008-03-08T02:04:46Z")
Sometime in late June of 1975. I don’t know any details about any possible occasions, and I really would rather not know. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/27 "2008-03-08T02:05:41Z")
June 12, 1978, two days after my parents got married. Yes, they knew. Yes, they told me. Yes, they were hippies and under the influence of mushrooms and wine. Even if they hadn’t told me, I could have done the math myself. My birthday is March 14. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/28 "2008-03-08T02:11:31Z")
I was conceived in a quickie. I don’t know the exact date, but my dad had been out of state working for three months, drove in to see my mom one afternoon, did… stuff… and then drove back to work that night for three more months. There was no way it could have been any other day or time. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/29 "2008-03-08T02:22:05Z")
Hard to tell for sure, but 6 weeks after telling Daddy that she was bored and wanted either a baby or a Color TV, Mom and her sister were shopping for maternity clothes, but stopped at the TV shop to watch the coverage of Kennedy’s assasination instead, and my wee-hours of June 24th, and our Legendary Family Fertility . . . Thursday, October 3rd, 1963. Hmmph. Daddy was slow buying a TV, so he got laid a day early . . . I’m guessing he was paid every other Friday. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/30 "2008-03-08T05:30:34Z")
I was born June 4, so that put me “being made” in early September the year before - No significant events then. But I was late… so okay… never mind I think I was a Anniversary lay… eeewww [shudder at the thoughts of parents having sex] My husband, is well, a Valentines Day lay present :D, he was born November 10. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/31 "2008-03-08T05:40:22Z")
My brother and I were both born 9 months after New Years, 3 years apart. I finally got it out of my mother that she had gotten a few drinks into my father, each time. I suspect those were the only times they had sex, but didn’t have the heart to ask her. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/32 "2008-03-08T06:24:24Z")
I think I was conceived sometime around my brother’s 2nd birthday in early September as he is 2 years 9 months older than I. I maintain that he was also well aware of this fact at a very young age and has hated me for it for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/33 "2008-03-08T07:20:23Z")
I was concieved _of_ back in '44 by the [OSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services), but the war came to an end quicker than my R&D and gestation cycles would allow. It wasn’t until '76 (due to Congressional funding and looming reports of an energy crisis due to a war started by the Soviets in the Baku region of Azerbijan) that my project was ‘restarted’ again. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the funding of the [Serpentor Project](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpentor), but had to make due. I was pieced together with samples from Alan Alda and Dirk Benedict, [Magnus von Braun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_von_Braun), [Sylvester Stallone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone), Curtis LeMay, and Joseph McCarthy. [sub]Gov’t cutbacks are a bitch. I think they used the last three as the largest percentages.[/sub] So, I popped out later, and when they found that someone had accidentally spilled a little Abbot and Costello into the mix (and some Bisquick, apparently), they figured that while I wasn’t good for the shock troops, I’d be “good for follow-on action after we crossed into East Germany.:” They said they’d contact me through the transponder embedded in my ear, but it’s either malfunctioning (I keep getting broadcasts of KKBR in Billings) or this flu that kicked my ass has shorted it out with all of the congestion in my sinuses. You’d think they’d install either waterproof equipment, or use better technology. Tripler Damn government cutbacks. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/34 "2008-03-08T07:35:35Z")
My mom’s B’day was in mid April and I was born in mid Jan., so I’m thinking maybe she had a very happy 19th B’day. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/35 "2008-03-08T07:48:18Z")
Yours truly was conceived on or about March 20th 1941 much to the delight of my mum and dad. Others scattered around the globe were not so impressed. I refer specifically to good old Adolf who, on the day of my birth, decided to send the Luftwaffe to blitz Manchester…the bastard ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/36 "2008-03-08T17:00:39Z")
I was conceived around my parent’s 4th anniversary, when they went to Kentucky to visit my grandma and Mom forgot her ‘pack’. It took them 2 days to get another one in rural Kentucky; guess it didn’t occur to them to use a back-up method out there in the hollow. My brother’s a honeymoon-made baby and our birthdays are 10 days apart. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/37 "2008-03-08T17:21:18Z")
Given that my birthday is mid-December, that would make “the date” be mid-March. Must have been just for fun, because neither of my parents had a birthday then and they are not Irish. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/38 "2008-03-08T17:25:29Z")
I was probably conceived about 10 days before my dad’s birthday. I don’t want to speculate if the event was an early birthday present or not. This would have been April 1988. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/39 "2008-03-08T17:38:34Z")
I was conceived some time around the end of October 1962 – according to my mum who never married my father and advised that there was a log fire involved on a cool night, a rug, and a forgotten condom … ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/40 "2008-03-08T19:53:18Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Sometime in the end of May 1954. I just like to know WHO else was there with my mother 😕 [/QUOTE] Freaky! My mother could have made that post except maybe April instead of May. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520.md?page=3)