Fucking dentist: as tho I didn't have enough problems

[PCIntern]

Three people came in today and jokingly asked whether I kill lions in my spare time. Har de har har.

This murderer...what manner of person goes and shoots a lion?? A miscreant.

In addition, Chaka Fattah is my Congressman. Great day all the way around.

[randome]

1. Maybe you should post a sign: "Lions Killed Since Dec. 1992: 0".

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]

[PCIntern]

3. I like that! Doing it!! Nt

[Orrex]

11. That's magnificent!

[NV Whino]

2. Sorry, PC

You guys get a bad rap all around.

[dorkzilla]

4. FWIW I LOVE my dentist!

He’s funny and kind and he usually has to book extra time for me because we laugh so much it takes twice as long to get anything done.

I’ve seen him murder an egg-salad sandwich but that’s about it.

Sorry you’re having a rotten day.

[Downwinder]

5. Thought there was a little of Doc Holliday in all dentists.

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[Gormy Cuss]

6. Tell them no need, you use 'Little Shop of Horrors' as your pain management guide.

[Scurrilous]

7. Glad I bit my tongue.

My 6 mos. cleaning on Monday revealed a cavity. Had it filled this morning. While passing small talk waiting for the shot to kick in and the gum to go numb I almost (twice) brought up Cecil the Lion to my dentist. Thought better of it though (sore point and whatnot).

[randome]

8. I'm taking my daughter to have her wisdom teeth taken out Friday.

I'll have to keep what you said in mind: avoid making her laugh afterwards. The laughing gas before should be enough.
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[Scurrilous]

12. Good luck with that!

[malaise]

9. Yep this is effed up on so many levels

I have problems killing a roach

[shanti]

21. nah, roaches are fair game

nasty little disease-carrying bugs...

[randome]

22. Now THAT would be a good test of one's skills with a bow and arrow!

Shooting a mammal nearly as big as you? Not so much.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[csziggy]

10. Not something I'd ask my dentist

In his spare time he does pro bono work on homeless and low income people. I've heard him talking about it with his assistants and asked him about it myself.

And the way his office is filled with photographs of birds and animals, I suspect any shooting he might do is with a camera.

Sorry your clients don't know you well enough to be sure you're not like that animal killing jerk.

[question everything]

28. This is what some letters to the editors said

that many people cannot afford dental care, and that he could have gone to Africa to treat kids with dental problems, instead of putting $50K to kill a lion.

[csziggy]

30. Yeah, but then he wouldn't be a Republican

And wouldn't have paid over $120,000 for a sexual harassment case, or been fined for lying about where he shot a bear.

And we never would have heard of Dr. Walter Palmer.


What's bad is that he is probably a very distant relative. I go back on a couple of lines to the first Walter Palmer who lived in America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Palmer_%28Puritan%29 http://www.walterpalmer.com/Walter_Palmer_Bio.htm

But he was a jerk, too. He was charged with beating an indentured servant (not even his own servant) to death and managed to be acquitted of the charges even though he acknowledged that he had done it.

[central scrutinizer]

13. don't take it personally

making a joke is one way to ease tension - many people do not like going to the dentist (maybe they are embarrassed that they haven't flossed for weeks and are afraid of what you will discover)

[Octafish]

14. What lion?

[randome]

17. Finally! A portrait of Octafish!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[Renew Deal]

15. First they came for the dental hygienists and I said nothing...

[BuelahWitch]

16. So sorry. That was very crude of them. n/t

[PCIntern]

18. Please let me say that they are nice and funny people...

it's just that it's like Here We Go Again...Marathon Man, the Dentist(most frightening film ever about a dentist), and many others...

[pinboy3niner]

19. It could be worse

They could be bringing up Tim Conway!

I hope this is one you are able to laugh at and have a brief respite from your day.

[question everything]

29. and the dentist who gave AIDS?

In Florida, some 25 years ago?

[TygrBright]

20. Try this one as a tagline for awhile:

"Dentists Don't Kill Lions. Assholes Kill Lions."

helpfully,
Bright

[PCIntern]

23. I like that! thanks! nt

[moondust]

24. ADA petitions.

American dental association should revoke Walter Palmer's licence to practice

Demand that the ADA suspend the license of Walter Palmer

Maybe more. Maybe dumb. Not many signatures yet.

I don't know if the ADA can do that or not.

[PCIntern]

25. ADA has no jurisdiction over anything involving practice...

that is up to each state dental board. You almost literally have to be a murderer to get your license revoked in most states.

[Turbineguy]

26. I went to the Dentist today.

I'm glad I did not bring that up. We talked about the health problems of men in their 60's. He's become a wizard on prostate cancer.

[tenderfoot]

27. I need to know how this dentist is so much more wealthier than the next.

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For example, I've been at DU for over a decade and know that you're a dentist. Without knowing you personally, you strike me as well off but not like this Palmer character. Is he as wealthy as he is due to the type of dentistry he does? He seems to concentrate on cosmetic dentistry as opposed to family practice.

Thank you.

[PCIntern]

32. I thought that too

Spending 50 grand just to lure them. I sure as hell don't have 10 percent of that for anything. Much less that. Bastard.

[HFRN]

31. what you are seeing, are anti-dentites, and anti-dentism

thankfully, there is a new site 'Zebras against the defamation of Dr Walter Palmer, DDS", who point out that people like him are friends who make their lives better

[PCIntern]

33. Funny all the way around. Thanks. Nt

[HFRN]

34. actually, i stole it from seinfeld

[PCIntern]

36. Possibly the funniest episode

Of all time. It's famous among dentists.

[840high]

35. My sympathy to you on

the slimy dentist and Chaka Fattah.