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Thursday, August 16, 2007
2:42:00 PM EDT
Hearing Wild Sex (in the Working Class) -- Oingo Boingo
In Russia, the childbirth rate among ethnic Russians has dropped quite a bit over the last couple of decades, so now the government is stepping in... and offering fabulous prizes!
A Russian region best known as the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin has found a novel way to fight the nation’s birthrate crisis: It has declared Sept. 12 the Day of Conception and for the third year running is giving couples time off from work to procreate.
The hope is for a brood of babies exactly nine months later on Russia’s national day. Couples who “give birth to a patriot” during the June 12 festivities win money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.
You know what, though. A few years from now, all these kids born on or near June 12 will figure this all out, and then there'll be the "You just had me for the refrigerator!" arguments. Yeah, that's not something to look forward to.
That said, there is probably something to that whole "taking the day off" thing. Just before Athena was born, we did the math and tried to figure out when she was conceived. As best as we can figure, it was the day I was officially laid off from my job at America Online, back in 1998. Clearly, you see, I had some extra time. That may be too much information, I suppose. Wait until I mention it to Athena one day. That's gonna be worth a least a month of therapy.
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2:42:00 PM EDT
Hearing Wild Sex (in the Working Class) -- Oingo Boingo
You Know, This Was Something We Did on Our Own Time
In Russia, the childbirth rate among ethnic Russians has dropped quite a bit over the last couple of decades, so now the government is stepping in... and offering fabulous prizes!
A Russian region best known as the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin has found a novel way to fight the nation’s birthrate crisis: It has declared Sept. 12 the Day of Conception and for the third year running is giving couples time off from work to procreate.
The hope is for a brood of babies exactly nine months later on Russia’s national day. Couples who “give birth to a patriot” during the June 12 festivities win money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.
You know what, though. A few years from now, all these kids born on or near June 12 will figure this all out, and then there'll be the "You just had me for the refrigerator!" arguments. Yeah, that's not something to look forward to.
That said, there is probably something to that whole "taking the day off" thing. Just before Athena was born, we did the math and tried to figure out when she was conceived. As best as we can figure, it was the day I was officially laid off from my job at America Online, back in 1998. Clearly, you see, I had some extra time. That may be too much information, I suppose. Wait until I mention it to Athena one day. That's gonna be worth a least a month of therapy.
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8/16/07 6:34 PM
Don't worry John... it won't scar her. I've known about mine (happened on the very day my parents decided maybe *not* having kids wouldn't be such a bad thing after spending an exhausting weekend with 2 of my older cousins) since before I knew *how* babies were made.
Of course, my story might be slightly easier to take than "daddy got laid off from his job and mommy was trying to make him feel better."
Jamilyn
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