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By COREY LEVITAN

I value not getting me or my family raped, murdered, or videotaped for an Internet sex site more than I do saving a couple hundred dollars. But obviously not much more, or I would have paid closer attention when booking my first Airbnb.

Friends have raved for years about this website, which connects people seeking to rent a spare room, apartment, or house for less than the going hotel rate, with people who have one. One of my female friends uses it for extra cash nearly every weekend.

By COREY LEVITAN & DAVID STROUD

I'll take "things you never think will happen to you in a million years" for $100, Alex.

It was 1994, and my girlfriend at the time, Julie, lived in a house owned by legendary Jeopardy host Alex Trebek. This already sounds much kinkier than it was.

By COREY LEVITAN & JUSTIN YURKANIN

The latest craze in London is speed dating with a paper bag on your head. No, seriously. It's the perfect antidote to the digital narcissism of today's young singles, who regularly lie to themselves when they say looks don't matter.

While traditional, bag-free speed daters wonder why they're still alone after rejecting soulmate-after-future-soulmate because of a bald head or a double chin, these Londoners seem to have hit upon a novel way of seeking romantic compatibility—and of hiding their bad British teeth.

By COREY LEVITAN

Angelina Jolie kicked off her right stiletto shoe. Her black-stockinged toes rubbed their way up the outside of my right jeans leg, then toward the inside, her immense almond eyes lasering into mine to gauge reaction.

No, you didn’t click on a softcore fan fiction site by mistake. THIS REALLY HAPPENED.