Harold asks his son, now aged ten, if he knows about the birds and the bees. "I don't want to know!" the child said, bursting into tears.

Confused, the father asked his son what was wrong.

"Oh Dad," the boy sobbed. "When I was six years old, I got the 'There's No Santa' speech. When I was seven, I got the 'There's No Easter Bunny' speech."

The boy continued, "Then at age eight, you hit me with the 'There's No Tooth Fairy' speech. If you're going to tell me now that grown-ups don't really have sex, I've got nothing left to live for!"