Is this for real? Palin et al. want to celebrate their birthdays from...

[PeterB]

... date of conception?

http://theswiftreport.com/?p=732

Oy. I gotta hope that this is an Onion-esque article.

[cbelt3]

Oh Crap ! I'm a citizen of Brazil !

Hmm.... citizenship... beach place at Ipanema..... Hmm...

[john dough]

Run Sarah, run!

I will even send you $35 (that is usually the kiss of death to one's chances, right?).

[PeterB]

cbelt3 wrote:
Oh Crap ! I'm a citizen of Brazil !

Hmm.... citizenship... beach place at Ipanema..... Hmm...

POMTL

Funniest comment yet that I've read on Facebook about this:

"Because everyone wants to think about the day their parents had sex"

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[lafinfil]

PeterB wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
Oh Crap ! I'm a citizen of Brazil !

Hmm.... citizenship... beach place at Ipanema..... Hmm...

POMTL

Funniest comment yet that I've read on Facebook about this:

"Because everyone wants to think about the day their parents had sex"

(

Ewwwwwww !

I have a friend and he and his only two siblings have birthdays all in the same week.
When they counted back 9 months they figured out it was his dads birthday.

The running family joke was "hey mom - what are you getting dad for his birthday this year?"

[graylocks]

oh, god (pun intended) help me this appears to be real. snopes turns up nothing and googling turns up a lot. i think i'm going to throw up.

[Seacrest]

graylocks wrote:
oh, god (pun intended) help me this appears to be real. snopes turns up nothing and googling turns up a lot. i think i'm going to throw up.

Satire.

[davester]

You might note that every article at that site is also "onionesque".

"Obama Warns Supporters: Transition to Socialism Will Take Time"

"ISCONSIN GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT: TEACHERS ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH AND ARE THE CAUSE OF ALL OF AMERICA’S PROBLEMS"

[freeradical]

PeterB wrote:
... date of conception?

http://theswiftreport.com/?p=732

Oy. I gotta hope that this is an Onion-esque article.

This is a very common practice in Asia. When I was in Korea, all of the Koreans I knew counted their age this way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning

[Uncle Wig]

It's satire, but not quite obvious enough. Unless the motive is to provide fuel for right-wingers who can't figure it out. I would imagine you'll find these stories repeated as truth all over teh internets.