http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL12402127
Excerpt:
Ha! Little do these people know that pregnancy is counted from the first day of your last period, not on the day the little one in conceived. They are likely to have an increase in babies 8-8 3/4 months later, but unless a woman carries her baby two weeks post date she's out of luck.The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work on
Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia's low birth-rate.And if a woman gives birth in exactly nine months time -- on Russia's
national day on June 12 -- she will qualify for a prize, perhaps even winning a
new home.
And a new stove? Come on, for crying out loud.
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Well, you've got to give them some credit for creativity. It should be a national holiday. Perhap a worldwide holiday. A lot of people would love it!
Yeah, but try getting that printed on a calendar. "Make Babies Day"? "Procrastinate and Procreate Day?" "Hooky and Nookie Day?" Well, you get the idea.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. But I also thought that's what 4/20 was for.
I always thought it would be fun to do what they did in ancient Israel...take a full year off from work to have sex, hang out and arrange your tent...er, house. Giving the groom a head start on producing an heir.
KM :)
I thought 4/20 was an entirely different holiday...
I think it's kind of funny. And even if the dates don't work out, if it's giving something for these people to look forward to, can that be so bad?
I vote for the "hooky & nookie day"
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