It is just Wet here today...

[petermcleland]

Well, I've been doing circuit work so no stores...I'll set up some old 40 gallon drums out on one of the nearby glaciers, put some stores on and go and practice diving at them...I'll push a button somewhere and say "Whoosh!" and then break hard and pretend I'm feeling some "CRUMPPPS" underneath

Thinking about what I just said...That is exactly what I did in the Rift Valley in Kenya (we were not allowed to fly armed there)...Later I did it again on the coast near Dubai in a little gully called Ras Sadr...This time we used real rounds and RPs.

[speedbird591]

I have to confess that 'on the mend' is NOT how I feel at the mo. The 'usual' 6hrs of numbness and dribbling is already being replaced by pain and the psycological scar of the bill is making it worse I'll get over it. Another 5p on a pint should take the sting out of it

Sailors are such wimps

I had toothache for a couple of months last year and the dentist couldn't see anything wrong and it eventually went away. Next time I had a checkup she asked how it was. 'It's great now - no pain at all.' She shook her head sadly, 'That's not necessarily a good thing, Mr Middleton.' I disagreed until she explained that an infection had eaten away the roots and was now happily munching on my jawbone. No roots, no pain. No jaw, no eat.

All it took was two and a half hours of root canal surgery, a crown and a £1,000 bill. I asked if she couldn't just take it out and she said 'You'll miss it, Mr Middleton!' 'Not as much as I'd miss £1,000!' says I - but to no avail.....

But I still feel sorry for you, Dave so I'll try and get up to Reading to buy some of your expensive beer. An extra 5p shouldn't be too bad - what's that now £1.55 a pint?

Ian :-(

[DaveB]

£1.55.. I wish. I could afford to drink it myself then!

Whatever was going on isn't giving up without a fight. Even with the offending broken tooth now gone, the antibiotics are finding it hard to get rid of the infection (though it doesn't hurt now) ;-) My good lady says the 'Chipmunk' look will go in a couple of days :o

You ought to have been in the services Ian as route canal work doesn't cost anything While at Comiberlant (NATO Lisbon) in '76, every visit to the (American Navy) dentist brought yet more route canals which, it has to be said.. were the cause of problems 10years down the line :roll: I wonder if she got paid more for doing them as a simple checkup would have you strapped into the chair and another tooth RC'd :o :o She was quite a 'big' girl too and it was more a test of how long you could stay alive with one or both of her upper appendages covering your breathing apparatus Always had a lot of time for USN female dentists since then though 31years on.. I'd lose conciousness now

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[speedbird591]

I was wrong - sailors aren't wimps after all!

Ian

[Garry Russell]

Ahhh Dave

Although a lot of folk never forget Dentist vists they not usually such firm mammaries as in your case :roll:

I sympathise with anyone that has toothache.....I have a multi cavity broken tooth that throbs well enough when it wants :-(

Garry xwink

[DaveB]

T H A N K S for mammaries.. de do de do do.. de do de do do.. Trust you Garry!

I couldn't say how proficient she was as a dentist but after a 24 month posting, I could hold my breath for 2mins while maintaining a smile (think she trained Navy Seals) and it's the only dentist I've known in any command that had a queue ;-)

Sri Peter. What started as an innocent thread has been dragged kicking and screaming onto the lower deck :roll: OFFTOPIC

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[petermcleland]