Ulrich Hobelmann wrote: > Paul F. Dietz wrote: > > Bart Lateur wrote: > > > >> As a similar example: I've been told by various women independently, > >> that "there are more babies born near a full moon." > > > > That's also a myth. > > Right, everybody knows that it's not natural (moon) light that > influences reproductive behavior, it's artificial light -- TV. > > When TV is turned off by a power failure, lots of people that usually > never have sex start making love, and lots of people that usually use > contraception lose their minds and forget about it. > > 9 months later more babies are born, unless that's also a myth.
But the myth in question is babies being *born* under natural or artificial light. Not being conceived. Cheers, Brandon J. Van Every (cruise (director (of SeaFunc) '(Seattle Functional Programmers))) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SeaFunc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list