OT: Phases of the moon [was Re: A Moronicity of Guido van Rossum]

[Running Bare]

Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann at web.de> writes:

> 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.

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.htm

    "Despite initial reports of New York City hospitals' seeing a
    dramatic increase in the number of births nine months after the
    1965 blackout, later analyses showed the birth rate during that
    period to be well within the norm."