Once again, my inbox was littered with a chain letter claiming something ridiculous. This time it came from my Dad and it claimed ten benefits of sex and threatened:

This message has been sent to you for good luck in sex. The original is in a room in Palaiseau. It has been sent around the world nine times.Now sex has been sent to you. The “Hot Sex Fairy” will visit you within four days of receiving this message, provided you, in turn, send it on.If you don’t then you will never receive good sex again for the rest of your life. You will eventually become celibate, and your genitals will rot and fall off.This is no joke! Send copies to people you think need sex (who doesn’t?). Don’t send money, as the fate of your genitals has no price. Do not keep this message. This message must leave your e-mail in 96 hours.Please send ten copies and see what happens in four days. Since the copy must tour the world, you must send it. This is true, even if you are not superstitious.GOOD SEX, but please remember: 10 copies of this message must leave your e-mail in 96 hours or you will not have good sex again for the rest of your life!!!!   

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I have been through a bunch of airports over the years, but I was never so surprised by as I was when I traversed terminals at Detroit Int’l Airport. My flight arrived a few minutes late. No problem, I had a three-hour layover. Yet, when I looked down the terminal, I saw one of the longest walks I have had in an airport. Maybe that three hours was going to be just enough time to get to my connecting gate in another terminal.

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The Mom and Pop tour is about visiting family. You might ask “Ted, why the hell would you take vacation time to visit family? Why don’t you go to an exotic locale with equally exotc women that refuse to wear more than a square foot of material?” Now that I read that question from the comfort of my Mom’s glider rocker I have to ask myself the same thing. Truth be told, I don’t see my family all that much. I have lived in Germany, Japan, both US coasts and points in between. Travel for the sake of seeing something different was a job for my family. Vacations were used to remind relatives what we looked like.

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