Happy Birthday Dad!

My dad is violently opposed to getting presents or cards on any occasion. For Christmas, I have to give him things he absolutely loves and can't refuse, like a nice bottle of wine, passionfruit jelly, or the BeeGees Live in Concert album. Today is his birthday, so I sent him an ecard, figuring I wasn't actually giving him anything real. I could tell he appreciated it because he sent me one back 5 minutes later. He wrote the message on the card like he thought using Yahoo Greetings! was the equivalent of sending a telegram in 1885:

Thanks a bunch Julia STOP As you can see PAUSE I came back from Miami refreshed and tanned STOP Love Dad END

The card was an animation of monkeys with bananas dancing and singing "daylight come and you wanna go home." Just to be clear: by tanned he meant covered in monkey fur.

First post, whew, I'm tired.