Amy Dickinson, the advice columnist in the Chicago Tribune, offered what might be the world’s worst marriage advice in a January column that was quoted in The New Yorker this week:

For fun and to try to mix this up a little, you two might develop a verbal or visual cue that is more subtle than simply asking for sex. For instance, when one of you mentions Vice President Richard Cheney, that’s your code.

Is she trying to kill their marriage?