[quote name=\'trainman\' post=\'256562\' date=\'Feb 6 2011, 11:33 PM\']Fair warning: I'd say my birthdate, "September 22, 1974" to you, and you'd dutifully respond with "ABC, Password, Split Second," et cetera, et cetera, and once you were done, I'd smugly say, "Ha! September 22, 1974, was a Sunday, so the correct answer is that there were no game shows on that day."[/quote]
You know, here's the weird thing about it...when I first began doing that trick, I would clarify by saying "IF you were born on a weekday." And what I came to discover is that shockingly few people know the day of the week when they were born. I've seen my birth certificate; I know I was born on a Tuesday. But apparently nobody else bothers committing that fact about themselves to memory.