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Cards are in the smartphone (apple pay and such) for most people....you don't need the actual cards anymore, really, since you can just tap your phone to the cc reader. ID is rarely needed and can slip in the phone case easily enough. Actual cash is becoming antiquated, it seems, but there's always a money clip (I gave one as a gift last year, actually), if you need one.

People still carry wallets?

I never wanted to believe that my brother was stealing signs from his job as a road worker. But when I got home, all the signs were there. --30--

For those of you who don't know, the Ig Nobel prizes are sort of a spoof on the Nobel Prizes. Every year, the day before Nobel Prize winners start being announced, the Institute of Improbably Research awards prizes to scientists, etc., whose achievements are chuckle-worthy but still an achievement. Previous prizes were awarded to the inventors of a smoke detector the releases the smell of wasabi to alert people, a study showing that cows with names give more milk than those who are nameless, and a study proving that listening to elevator Muzak can help prevent the common cold. For those interested in actual scientific implications of this year's winners, interesting summaries can be found here: Here are this year's winners: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/the-serious-science-of-the-ig-nobel-prizes-will-make-you-laugh-then-think/ Anthropology Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elaine Madsen, for collecting evidence, in a zoo, that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees. Biology Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, and Peter Witzgall, for demonstrating that wine experts can reliably identify, by smell, the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine. Chemistry Paula Romao, Adilia Alarcao, and the late Cesar Viana, for measuring the degree to which human saliva is a good cleaning agent for dirty surfaces. Medical education Akira Horiuchi, for the medical report, "Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned from Self-Colonoscopy." Literature Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic, and M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manual. Nutrition James Cole, for calculating that the caloric intake from a human-cannibalism diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake from most other traditional meat diets. Peace Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartin, Constanza Calatayud, and Beatriz Alamar, for measuring the frequency, motivation, and effects of shouting and cursing while driving an automobile. Reproductive medicine John Barry, Bruce Blank, and Michel Boileau, for using postage stamps to test whether the male sexual organ is functioning properly—as described in their study, "Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring with Stamps." Economics Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping, for investigating whether it is effective for employees to use Voodoo dolls to retaliate against abusive bosses.

Never used websites when I was escorting, but here are a couple of possibilities.... Maybe their accounts got compromised/hacked? Maybe it's a security thing (since escorting, etc., is against the law almost everywhere in the US)? Maybe they have to do it in order to make a different city their "home base" because of the website's poor database management?

All things wise and wonderful, the church bus hit them all....

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Too much "I hate fags," etc., in him for me to be interested, no matter what he looks/looked like.

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