Destry Rides Again

[dexterjerome]

A few words of advice: when the dentist says to take care of your teeth, please listen! I'm a sorry example of why brushing alone is not enough. Amazingly enough, I have no cavities, but I do have a handful of other dental issues that come from pish-toshing the dental floss

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[mickeytor]

Sadly I don't have an answer for you on this one. When it comes to check ups, I have a really good rapport with my hygenist so we end up gabbing and gabbing so much that I hardly notice that she is sticking sharp instruments into my gums.

On the few occasions that I've had surgery (wisdom teeth) I was a nervous wreck to the point that the doctor had to tell me to behave, and the nurse had to sit on my feet. Scary - AND surreal!

[dexterjerome]

Agh! When I had my wisdom teeth extracted, they knocked me out cold with pills! I was delirious for a day and rambled incoherently about pink fleas and chandeliers -- so I'm told, anyway. I don't remember it at all. What I do know is that for the entire time I was out, when I was asleep, I had Tori's 'Under the Pink' on repeat -- for 24 hours, nonstop.

Can you blame me, now, for hating Tori Amos? I can't hear that album without getting nauseous. (Except for "Pretty Good Year," which is a song about me.)

[qoph]

(Except for "Pretty Good Year," which is a song about me.)

"And Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs"

Yes!!!

[dexterjerome]

The weird thing is, who the heck knew what burning CD's meant in 1994? When I used to listen to that song, I thought she meant, like, putting CD's in a pile and setting fire to them. Maybe that is what she meant, and it came to develop its current meaning later. I think about this sometimes.

Just about everything in that song applies to me, except who is Lucy? Tori got that part wrong when she was spying on my life. And she obviously did, because I was always writing letters, every day in high school and all through every class, I wrote letters -- WITH my birthday pen.

[qoph]

I know! I think that sometimes too.

I think Lucy is just a codemane for someone else. See, she didn't want to make it too obvious that the song was about you. She didn't want to get sued or anything.

[dexterjerome]

ps, You're lucky that your dentist has such a compassionate and chatty staff! Wish I could say the same for mine...