Turtle Posted April 13, 2007 Report Posted April 13, 2007 From a statistical view, oughtn't we expect an even distribution? From a sociological view, oughtn't we chuckle at this very old rhyme? Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is loving and giving. Thursday's child works hard for a living, Friday's child is full of woe. Saturday's child has far to go. But the child that is born on Sabbath-day Is bonny and happy and wise and gay. Here's a calculator to determine the day of the week you were born (in case you don't know off hand), as well as a description of how to determine the day of the week for any year without a calendar.What is the day of the week? What day of the week were you born? :shrug: Quote
Boerseun Posted April 13, 2007 Report Posted April 13, 2007 Born on a Monday, but my mother went into labour the Friday before, already. She hates me for it till this day, completely screwing up her weekend. But besides that, I suppose another interesting thing would be to check which months are the most famous for births. Most people I know have their birthdays somewhere between October and February, with a *very* small scattering throughout the year. I have no idea why this should be so, maybe the high summer to cool fall days ending with the Easter weekend (southern hemisphere) is more conducive to luvin'. Would be interesting to see the results! Quote
Chacmool Posted April 13, 2007 Report Posted April 13, 2007 I was also born on a Monday. At 12:48, to be exact. That might be the reason why this is the time of day I only really start waking up! I was born three days before my mother's 21st birthday, so she never got to have a big birthday party. Mea culpa. Quote
Guest chendoh Posted April 13, 2007 Report Posted April 13, 2007 I was born; Wednesday August 15th, 1951 at 11:49pm estIf I would have happened outside of the Hospital It would of been 08-16-1951, a Thursday. At the time...Hospitals stayed on est.......Like the RR'ds.... I would of missed out on Mary's Holyday! Quote
Tormod Posted April 13, 2007 Report Posted April 13, 2007 Sunday, around 6 in the morning (GMT+1), which means it was still Saturday in the US. :shrug: Quote
Guest chendoh Posted April 13, 2007 Report Posted April 13, 2007 Tormond: Do we still have the Gworld Flag system?Could we/or is that info Included with that Loc. system? Does it show the differential? Plus what space-time. In your particular area? Quote
Jay-qu Posted April 13, 2007 Report Posted April 13, 2007 Born on a Monday, but my mother went into labour the Friday before, already. She hates me for it till this day, completely screwing up her weekend. But besides that, I suppose another interesting thing would be to check which months are the most famous for births. Most people I know have their birthdays somewhere between October and February, with a *very* small scattering throughout the year. I have no idea why this should be so, maybe the high summer to cool fall days ending with the Easter weekend (southern hemisphere) is more conducive to luvin'. Would be interesting to see the results!The most popular birth month round here is August - 9 months after spring :hyper: makes sence to me! I was born on a wednesday :hihi: Early morning I think about 1am - just missed out on been born on Australia day! Quote
OzAnt Posted April 15, 2007 Report Posted April 15, 2007 Heh, I was born somewhere around midnight too. I know mum told everyone I gave her a hard time from the get go - as she was in labour for 26 hours apparently ...but that's another story. Interestingly, so far every poster that's quoted a time, has quoted that time as being between 11pm and 1am. Maybe we try to really do try and annoy our parents at a reeeeeally young age :D Quote
Fatstep Posted April 15, 2007 Report Posted April 15, 2007 In 7th grade our teacher showed us a formula to check what day of the week we were born on, it said Tuesday, that was a few years ago, though.I voted Tuesday, but then saw the link and figured I may as well do it too, but it said Wednesday, so I went to an online calendar, and I was born on Wednesday, please amend the vote. Quote
Monomer Posted April 16, 2007 Report Posted April 16, 2007 I was born on a Saturday at 11:54pm. My Mum said "you just couldn't wait six minutes could you!" No, I couldn't :D Quote
HappytheStripper Posted April 16, 2007 Report Posted April 16, 2007 Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Wednesday's child is loving and giving. Thursday's child works hard for a living, Friday's child is full of woe. Saturday's child has far to go. But the child that is born on Sabbath-day Is bonny and happy and wise and gay. I was born on a Monday.. my daughter was born on a Saturday.. heres another site I found to calculate days of birth.. im extremely lazy lmao.. and this is the information age.. so I let my fingers do the walking.. Monday's Child Is Fair of Face by Mother Goose Mother Goose was my favourite book of Nursery Rhymes.. Quote
Turtle Posted April 16, 2007 Author Report Posted April 16, 2007 I was born on a Monday.. my daughter was born on a Saturday.. heres another site I found to calculate days of birth.. im extremely lazy lmao.. and this is the information age.. so I let my fingers do the walking.. Monday's Child Is Fair of Face by Mother Goose Mother Goose was my favourite book of Nursery Rhymes.. Ya gotta love the Goose! I think I'm going to look to find when the first Mother Goose titled collection came out, unless you happen to know Happy. :lol: I found several versions of this day-of-the-week rhyme and a history tracing it back to the late 1500's. Seems that Wednesday & Saturday are switched in different versions. By the by, I voted but didn't post my claim. I claim I was born on a Monday and this alone shows the error of the verse. Post Script > “Mother Goose” was first associated with nursery rhymes in an early collection of “the most celebrated Songs and Lullabies of old British nurses,” Mother Goose's Melody; or Sonnets for the Cradle (1781), published by the successors of one of the first publishers of children's books, John Newbery. The oldest extant copy dates from 1791, but it is thought that an edition appeared, or was planned, as early as 1765, and it is likely that it was edited by Oliver Goldsmith, who may also have composed some of the verses. The Newbery firm seems to have derived the name “Mother Goose” from the title of Charles Perrault's fairy tales, Contes de ma mère l'oye (1697; “Tales of Mother Goose”), a French folk expression roughly equivalent to “old wives' tales.” Mother Goose --* Encyclopaedia Britannica Adam Fox ("Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700" p182) quotes the Elizabethan Thomas Nashe. Nashe recalled stories told to "yong folks" around a fire which included "tell[ing] what luck eurie one should haue by the day of the weeke he was borne on". Nashe thus provides evidence for fortune telling rhymes of this type circulating in Suffolk in the 1570s.Monday's Child - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote
Chacmool Posted April 16, 2007 Report Posted April 16, 2007 Heh, I was born somewhere around midnight too. I know mum told everyone I gave her a hard time from the get go - as she was in labour for 26 hours apparently ...but that's another story. Interestingly, so far every poster that's quoted a time, has quoted that time as being between 11pm and 1am. Maybe we try to really do try and annoy our parents at a reeeeeally young age Actually, I said I was born at 12:48. I didn't add "a.m." or "p.m.", which would indicate that I was referring to standard time. That would mean 12:48 p.m. in this case. The times you refer to can also be written as 23:00 and 01:00. I'm a noon baby, not a midnight baby. :lol: Quote
CerebralEcstasy Posted April 16, 2007 Report Posted April 16, 2007 I made it in to Wednesday by 4 minutes. I could have been born on John Lennon's bday, if my mom would have been more expedient at spitting me out on Tuesday. Instead.....I was born on David Lee Roth's. So according to the limmerick/old wives tale, whatever it is....I'm supposed to be full of grace, loving and giving if you combine the two days. Notice the word - SUPPOSED. /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif Quote
InfiniteNow Posted April 18, 2007 Report Posted April 18, 2007 Hmmmm... Lessee. Open Excel. Enter my DOB to cell A1. Click "Format Cells," and change number format to Date with day of week. Hey, would ya look at that. Turns out I was born on a Friday. :shrug: Child of the Microsoft generation... :hyper: Quote
Boerseun Posted April 18, 2007 Report Posted April 18, 2007 Looking at the poll results, it seems as if Saturdays aren't too popular for births... Could it be that medical professionals also need a day off? What would Hipocrates have to say about this? Quote
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