h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

> "She was surprised at my pallor."



> "I'm pleased at how well the pictures have come out"

You could try selling the remains to some gullible Young-Earth Creationist (on eBay?) as dinosaur "fossils" with intact tissues, ie contemporaneous with humans.

I thought I had replied to this earlier.

Brilliant writing as usual, I would read anything you wrote, you make the dentist and even snot on railway platforms sound entertaining! A singular talent indeed!

We have bought Eats, Leaves and Shoots btw, but Moonglum has nicked it!

I am pleased to hear the gums are healing up well. Do you 'do' xmas, as if you do then it must have made the xmas meal difficult!

Oh Kaz, PLEASE take this in the spirit it is intended which is humorous affection!

Only a few people could manage to get the title of that book the wrong way round, well done! YOU should write the sequel!

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The had 2nd thoughts "oh sod them, it's been a bad day at the office!"

zdt

I just went and checked the last email I sent to Kaz: I got 'em the wrong way round too!

"You could try selling the remains to some gullible Young-Earth Creationist (on eBay?) as dinosaur "fossils" with intact tissues, ie contemporaneous with humans."

Hee, that's an awfully tempting idea!

I'm pleased and flattered that you enjoy my writing, Kaz. But don't let that stop you from showering me with further compliments.

"Do you 'do' xmas, as if you do then it must have made the xmas meal difficult!"

We don't normally 'do' xmas, but this year we did. Gothly spent ages preparing a sumptuous roast dinner with home-made cranberry sauce and all the works, followed by cake and brandy sauce. I ate it all on one side of my mouth. It took a hell of a lot of chewing.

SNAILY!!! Thou shalt be spanked soundly and sent to bed without any supper; tsk tsk, call yourself a grammar expert!!!

Actually, the joke that disgustingly rich author made up would still work if you reversed it; just change the plot slightly. As the disgruntled allotment holder said.

If you can be "disgruntled" can you be "gruntled"????

zdt

She didn't make it up: that joke's been around for aeons.

Will it matter if I enjoy the spanking?

I just love 'words' like 'gruntled' and 'kempt'. Quote from Deswald, playing superheroes as a kid: "you can't hurt me! I'm invun... invuln... I can't be vulned!"

Snailie, may introduce Hati U127053 who also has recent (still healing) dental problems?

You could compare stories and let us others in peace...
Or not...

I can only happily announce that I had no problem with finding a dentist. Actually I have 3 dentists currently. However that doesn't ease my pain. And they didn't give me any of 3 teeth that were extracted 2 days ago. (Front teeth, btw)

Snailrind, although the topic is serious, your journal made me , it's written wonderfully. Your description of how the first dentist failed to do the anaesthetic right, catapulted me back to my very similar experience two years ago. I had had pains for weeks, but hadn't been able to locate which tooth was causing them, and my dentist refused to do an x-ray to find out, so I lived on painkillers which didn't really help, until my tooth finally decided to 'blow up'. After eventually having made an x-ray, my dentist told me that it was a tooth with dead nerves, no anaesthetic needed. I can still feel the pain, I nearly jumped to the ceiling when she stuck the needle into the root . The whole area was so irritated afterwards, that no jab had an effect, so she had to try again and again.
I had to return several times for the treatment, and boy, I was tense every time, clinging to the seat, knuckles white, waiting for the pain .

THREE dentists, Hati? So that's where all the Welsh ones are: in bloomin' Moominvalley. I just read your journal entry. It sounds like you've had a frightful time with your teeth, poor you.

B'Elana, exactly! That needle-in-the-root thing's a killer. I was really pleased to find that the nice London dentist had hand-grips on his chair for terrified clients to cling onto. You've changed your dentist, I hope?

People here find the dental care ing expensive (that is, it used to be covered by health insurance until some years ago) and so they just don't go to dentists much. Exept in ultimate need. And suffering from overload.

No, I didn't change my dentist´. I've tried so many dentists, she's usually ok in comparison to others.
Hati, the dentist is expensive here, too.

Are you in Britain, B'Elana?

Snailrind, I'm in Germany

I have been Banned from the dentist. No, really. He is a social acquaintance, visually a real character, handlebar moustache, plays harmonica & sings. He is very well respected professionally. He assured me "I can sort it, come & see me" so i got dragged kicking & screaming about 3 years back simply for him to have a look.

Eventually he pried my mouth open by singing & playing harmonica "pretend we are in the bar"

Peered in & said "Oh merde!"

I screamed & bit him; as one does. He screamed too. Then a small child in the waiting room screamed also. Dentist rushes out to comfort mother of small child who is also screaming by now "Don't be afraid, this patient is an English lunatic" too late, nice fee paying mummy departs with hysterical child.

He comes back to find i have released myself from the torture chair & am poking away at his bits & pieces with unsterilised hands & smoking a ciggy.

"Terri; you are a friend,& i enjoy meeting you socially but please, please, please, promise me you will never sit in that chair again OK? And don't pass on to me any of your friends; they are all poverty stricken lunatics."

Te he, guess who is undergoing root canal treatment for the last 7 months......

zdt*totally innocent*

Dammit, Terri, you have GOT to write a book!

I am hoping if dentist drills far enough he will achieve a free frontal lobe lobotomy.This may be very good for his professional reputation & medical science in general.

Viking meanwhile is obliged to Be Stoic because He is a Man.

zdt