# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/41 "2008-03-08T21:50:31Z")
I was born Sept. 1, and always presumed I was the result of a New Year’s Eve celebratory roll in the hay. Never asked my parents about it, and doubt I ever will. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/42 "2008-03-09T04:04:00Z")
They say Augusts delights may be Aprils fool. Apparently the summer of love hit Boulder, Colo too ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/43 "2008-03-09T15:36:43Z")
The calculator worked well. I was born on July 1, 3 days earlier than expected, and my parents anniversary is Oct. 13, which was right at the end of the period (no pun intended) given by the conception calculator. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/44 "2008-03-09T17:46:35Z")
November twenty-something of 1979, my parents’ anniversary. They went on a camping vacation in central Florida, and I guess it got pretty cold that night. “We shared a sleeping bag to keep warm, and then here you are!” Ick. WHY do parents say these things? Do they WANT us to be screwed up? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/45 "2008-03-09T18:02:43Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] Following on [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=458574) thread, does anybody know the occasion of their conception? [/QUOTE] Guh. Unfortunately. It was “on a beautiful October night” in 1980, in Miami. My dad wrote a florid little passage about it, beginning with “IT WAS ON THIS SPOT…” underneath the waterbed mattress. That eventually became my bed and my friends and I found the writing once when we were moving it. Embarassing to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/46 "2008-03-09T18:06:47Z")
I figured out, while reading a similar thread a couple years back, that I was probably a Valentine’s Day baby. I’m quite certain my mother would be shocked if I asked about it as ladies don’t talk about such things. GT ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/47 "2008-03-09T18:08:22Z")
The year sex was invented, according to Philip Larkin. > [@](#): > > Sexual intercourse began > In nineteen sixty-three > (which was rather late for me) - > Between the end of the Chatterley ban > And the Beatles’ first LP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520.md?page=2)