" This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. " Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. " It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." " What did people do before 1969?" " Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus. "