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Ron.M
Posts: 7051
Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland
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The Dentist's Room
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Hi All, As a break from all this moaning and stuff. I was at the Dentist this morning and was sitting in the small waiting room which had about 5 or 6 chairs each side facing each other about 2metres apart. Everybody was just sitting there for ages in silence, twiddling their thumbs and looking at the floor or the ceiling, listening to the distant high pitched squeal of the Dentist drill and trying to avoid eye contact. I was sitting at the end in the corner, where they had a selection of a few kid's toys in a box. On the chair opposite me, there was a big fluffy soft-toy frog, just sitting there looking at me. In the tense silence, I suddenly had the mental urge to grab the frog and bounce it up and down on my knee saying "Hello Mister Froggie, and how are you today?" ... and rock it like a baby saying "What a good froggie woggie-woo!", just to see what the reaction would be. Is this the sign of some kind of impending senile dementia? Or is it only if I actually DID it would it be serious? I know that both Ed and Ailsa are specialists in that area. Anyway, cheers, Ron
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Date Jan. 16 2009 11:24:30
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henrym3483
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Joined: Nov. 13 2005
From: Limerick,Ireland
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RE: The Dentist's Room (in reply to John O.)
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Ron, i think you've got what some of my mates call the celtic humour gene. basically, when in boring or akward situations we like to have a bit of the "craic" ie not crack cocaine but a laugh. eg's my mate taking the mickey outta the queen's wax model in front of madame tussauds at a high level, saying "would yah look at the face on her no wonder yer man has a long face getting into bed with that mare each night". needless to say, some of the other visitors were not impressed but me and the rest of the gang creased ourselves up laughing. another event involving myself is when i took lessons with el carbonero in 2007, second day of lessons i got called a "guiri" by him and his mate for a joke to test my reaction. 3rd morning i turned up, and manuel was outside having a smoke with his mate and they said "heres the guiri again" i put the case down and started palmas for tangos and sang "soy un guiri, vengo de Irlanda, yo vengo para el flamenco, pero mis amigos no saben nada" a la camaron ie soy gitano and the voice i did was a reall high pitched piss take of camarons singing. to which manuel and his friend creased up either thinking i was mad or simply an idiot. ....anyway i thought it was funny
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Date Jan. 19 2009 1:47:38
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