> David B. said,
>
> >Have you heard about Robin's teeth btw, 'tis the issue of the week
>
> You know, it seems Robin Hamilton has his teeth knocked out on
> a bi-quarterly basis. Back before his nervous breakdown, when I
> still occasionaly heard from him back channel, I remember his
> telling me of at least three gruesome incidents (all three were in the
> subway, as I recall) involving his front teeth and/or incisors. Does
> this man have shark genes, or something, so that he grows them
> back?
>
> Kent
You have this just slightly wrong, Kent. I think the (one) incident to
which you are referring is when three of my upper-jaw teeth +fell+ out,
simultaneously (they were stapled together, and it was a case of fall one,
fall all). And it was on an Amsterdam gondola, not on the subway.
This left me with nothing +but+ incisors in my upper jaw, which soon, under
medical supervision, went the way of all dentine.
The current situation (to which dave obliquely refers) involves not teeth
per se but a dental plate. And superglue.
(I'd just absolutely love to be able to regrow my teeth -- the first thing
I'd do with my sharkish regenerates would be to bite your left leg off at
the ankle.)
Sorry for all these grisly details, but just to keep the record straight.
And I didn't have a nervous breakdown -- I simply went barking mad after
choking on one of your dried heteronyms.
Robin
(Who is going to sleep on whether or not to go to the CCCP Conference in
Cambridge tomorrow. Which will largely depend on the reliability of the
superglue I'm currently employing.)
[And just to further straighten the record, it was +dave+ who's had teeth
knocked out. My current toothless at Gaza by the mill with slaves state is
due to having been brought up by Glasgow dentists on an exclusive diet of
deep-fried Mars bars.
R2.]
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