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Contributed by: Joe McDaniel on 7/12/2006

While living in Tennessee some years ago I heard a funny joke. It went like this:

Q: How do you pay Miss Tennessee a compliment?
A: You say, "nice tooth."

Of course there is always a measure of truth in a good joke. Since riding the Mind Eraser at Five Flags last week I am happy to report that my mental faculties are returning.

You know how there can be something troubling you but you can't quite put your finger on it? There's a gnawing little thought in the deep recesses of your mind that struggles to get out. Well, that happened to me this morning. I suddenly realized that what we use to clean our teeth should not be called toothpaste. We use it to brush our teeth - so surely it is TEETHpaste?

I looked more closely at the teethpaste tube. Nowhere does it say teethpaste. What it does say is, "Anticavity Fluoride and Antigingivitis toothpaste; Total Whitening Paste." The fine, almost illegibly small, print on the reverse side gives directions, "brush teeth thoroughly." At least they got that right, but they forgot to tell us to "apply paste to brush," before brushing.

It seems to me that we pay a lot of attention to relatively unimportant issues in our lives: how the Da Vinci Code, for example, is threatening the whole of Christianity, or whether we should have a constitutional amendment to make English our official language. Perhaps if we start addressing the little things, eventually the bigger issues will take care of themselves.

But I digress. Returning to my morning ablutions, I investigated two different brands of teethbrushes." The Colgate brand (Triple Action!) says, "3 way clean." The Oral-B brand says, "For toothbrushing only." (Should we brush one tooth at a time?) It then adds the important warning - "do not chew."

While searching for the brushes I came across another brand of teethpaste. On the carton it does say, "Aquafresh with micro-active foaming action - Extreme Clean - Whitening Mint Experience." Why couldn't they just call it what it is . . . Teethpaste?

All credit to the manufacturers of Aquafresh though for giving us the following additional information; "For best results, squeeze tube from bottom."

Great advice.

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Submitted By: Joe McDaniel

posted on 6/5/2006 @ 10:21:08 AM

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Eating too many bons bons is the reason we have to pay attention to our oral hygiene.

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Stop complaining and eat some bonbons.

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