[LINK] birth rate suggestion

[Webb, Kerry]

Robert wrote:
> 
> 
> On 23 Sep, David Lochrin wrote:
> 
> > On the other hand, perhaps the best solution involves the gummit
> > paying all TV broadcasters to stop transmission at 8p.m. 
> each evening.
> > Experience following the famous New York blackout a few years ago
> > indicates the birth rate nine months hence would soar.  Blokes would
> > be saying "Yes, I remember now, you're my wife...."
> 
> My memory was that this had happened in the 1960s, but you 
> made me think
> it must have been more recent. A search on the net came up with
> 	http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1977.html
> which showed that there was a blackout in 1977. The one I 
> recall (and to
> which I think you are referring) was in 1965 - and blacked out a huge
> area of NE USA and E Canada. See
> 	http://blackout.gmu.edu/events/tl1965.htm
> for more details.
> 
> There is no mention of an increased birthrate 9 months later, but I do
> recall that being reported.

A check of the Snopes Urban Legends site shows that it just didn't happen.
See  http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.htm 

Kerry
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