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Skriven 2008-12-03 16:37:34 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: EXPIRATION DATES 81213
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Howdy Glen!
->  
->  -> I will try to stay a fixed number of years ahead of you.
->  HN> And I'll be happy to try and catch up!
-> 
-> You probably will, eventually.
->  
Well, I hope we keep at it for a long time yet!

->  -> Unfortunately my teeth suffered from a period of 7 years working as a
->  -> Public Servant in the Commonwealth Dept of Works in what was then 
the
-> 
->  -> couple of front teeth on a windscreen wiper motor in a minor pre-seat
->  -> belt car crash 40 years ago, and the repair of that particular damage
->  -> has now failed.
->  ->
->  HN> Well, they've lasted long enough that 
->  HN> technology can give you a set of chompers
->  HN> that may exceed your originals!
-> 
-> At a price.  The Filipina dentist who made the last pair of teeth and
-> hung them on the stump of a damaged tooth was very good, but she 
moved
-> to Canadia and is probably rich enough to retire by now.  As I could
-> cross the Pacific for the cost of an implant, that sort of repair is
-> hardly worth doing.  I'll get a much cheaper clipped in denture.  As
-> long as I can bite apples and gnaw bones I'll be happy.
->
Michael says good dental work can be 
gotten in Thailand...or maybe another
trip back to the Phillipines might be 
in order!
  
->  ->  HN> I spent a goodly majority of my youth in more
->  ->  HN> tropic climes, including the South Pacific where
->  -> 
->  -> Even there, in the tropics, the generally high humidity helps to give
->  -> some protection. Southern and central Australia is where the world's
->  -> highest rates of skin cancer occur.
->  ->
->  HN> I hope you're right, I've no wish 
->  HN> to experience the Big C, even though
->  HN> it seems to run in my family quite strongly.
->  
->  -> BTW, where in the South Pacific have you been?  I've spent time in a
->  -> few corners of that vast, lightly populated area.
->  ->
->  HN> Hawaii, Guam, Johnson Island, Wake, and Kwajalein.
-> 
-> Hmmm.  Hawaii and Guam are North Pacific.  Not sure about Wake and
-> Kwajalein, but I think they are north of the equator.  Don't know
-> Johnson Island at all.
->
North Pacific to you perhaps, to me
that was Plenty South Pacific enough!
If you want North Pacific, come on up
my way or Bill Swisher's...we can show
you some NORTH Pacific!
  
-> 
->  ->  HN> You's a cruel one you is!!
->  -> Thankyou!  :)  Just try to imagine the problems your poor dentist faces
->  -> in trying to cut around that broken drill to remove it while still
->  -> leaving enough of the tooth left to justify rebuilding, and be sorry
->  -> for him.  It will probably take him hooouuurrs.
->  ->
->  HN> I have no sympathy for him, he gets paid!
->  HN> I get pain!
-> 
-> Pain in your mouth and your wallet!  Good luck with your dentist's
-> drill bit mining.
-> 
Just finished my colonoscopy today,
now I have my dental visit on monday
the 8th....I'm getting it from both ends now!!

-> My schedule for 2009 has started to fill up, with Darwin daughter and
-> her family arriving just after Christmas and staying into the new year.
-> A week later I have to visit Perth daughter and her family for a
-> fortnight (she bought my tickets yesterday).  My Echo postings will
-> probably become a bit erratic then.
-> 
You should get a cheap laptop with
wifi capability and give us reports 
from all these exotic locales!
OOooooo PERTH!!!!!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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