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There are veterinary dentists, and they do things like root canals and crowns, implants, etc. Why? The most commonly given example would be a police dog who has a problem with a canine tooth (the big "fang" tooth); their job requires them to be able to grab ahold of a suspect, so losing one of their main grabbing teeth could force their retirement, after thousands of dollars and man-hours of training being invested in them. Give them an implant, a new canine tooth, and they can continue doing their job for years longer.

As Dan has pointed out many times, video rental stores are still a thing in the Real World(TM). There's a Family Video within bicycling distance of me in two different directions as I type this. Not to mention the public library has a pretty good collection of DVDs and Blu-Rays.

Our office manager has a chronic cough, not nearly as bad as yours, and she finds that drinking hot water helps. The original suggestion was hot tea, but she found that plain hot water works just as well. Maybe why the soup helped?

This is something a lot of people need to hear, either to make them more understanding of others less enlightened, or to see that they themselves can change and learn.

On Windy City Live, Neil deGrasse Tyson just solved the whole conundrum. "Maybe aliens did come and visit Earth, but they just happened to accidentally show up during San Diego ComicCon."

Neil deGrasse Tyson just speculated, "Maybe aliens did visit Earth, but they just accidentally happened to show up during San Diego ComiCon." ETA And in Out-Of-Context-Quotes territory, in response to a question about time travel, he said "Bill and Tedd are real!" And spellchecker knows how to spell deGrasse! How cool is that?

A small dog. They're prone to dental disease. When you selectively breed to make dogs smaller, their teeth don't shrink as quickly as their heads and jaws do, so they wind up with proportionally much bigger teeth and much less bone around them, meaning any loss of bone from dental disease is much more significant. This poor girl is only seven, but we found and treated a lot of dental disease that was invivsible below the gumline, so we're hoping she'll be much more comfortable now and get a good long time of healthy teeth and gums if the owners start brushing regularly.

Not gerund, genus, or genuflect?

They send a few teenagers to make crop circles, tip cattle, and go joyriding with whatever poor schlubs with no witnesses they can find. While the conspiracy theorists are busy with all that, they go to the conspiracy theorists' mothers' homes and convince them they should throw out any boxes that haven't been opened in over a year. Then they just pick up the boxes that contain the conspiracy theorists' comic book collections.

My sister made reservations for the two of us for the four day Harry Potter package at Universal in Orlando for the end of May, including one extra day at the hotel so we can take a day off from the amusement parks and either go somewhere else or just hang around the pool if we're getting burnt out. Her flight is booked to arrive Saturday night and leave Friday morning. I finalized my plans too. Since I still have those three unused days at Disney after the way my last trip was cut short, I'm staying Fri Sat Sun to use them up and flying back home Monday. I put two three-day weekends in a row so I don't have to use up as many vacation days, or leave my boss working alone too many days. I'm switching to a Disney hotel for the last three nights, so I can get the "Extra Magic Hours" perk that lets you either enter early or stay late for at least one park every day. Well, it just so happens that Disney Animal Kingdom is opening a new section, based on Pandora from the movie Avatar, on the weekend I'll be Disneying, which just happens to fall on Memorial Day Weekend. At first I was annoyed at how crowded it will likely be for the whole weekend thanks to that timing, but I've since learned that they'll be having extra-long "Extra Magic Hours," as in staying open until 1am or later! So, I can get up early, go before the crowds build up too bad, and then go back to my hotel for a couple hours nap when it gets too hot, then head back out in the evening when it's cooling off. Yes, I know all about the best laid plans of mice and men usually being about equal, and I'm sure there'll be rainstorms or other problems, but as long as there isn't a genuine hurricane, I think I'll be able to get my money's worth. :-) If there is a hurricane, I vote it be named Pandora!

Don't know if you mentioned this loss while I was distracted dealing with my own, or what, but if I did miss saying it before, you have my sympathies/condolences. Losing my father mostly made me feel for my mother, who lost her life partner, but when mom lost her dad a year after her mom, she said even though she was in her sixties, having lost both parents made her feel like an orphan. We didn't have a dress rehearsal for my father's memorial, or I might have asked them to tone down the religious-service stuff for my sister's sake. Still, everything went smoothly, a good number of people attended, and the math professor joke the minister told was one I think my dad would have liked. :-) May yours go equally well, if not better.

I wonder if it was an extra or a misfile. Did you put the morning pill in the evening compartment, rather than put one in the morning and one in the evening? I'm guessing if you're not sure you're better off not taking it, unless you're taking it as an anticonvulsant; I have some patients who have a seizure if they miss a dose of their meds, but we don't use topiramate in pets so I'm not familiar with that one, let alone its use in The One Forbidden Species.

Chicken Kow, because I was in the middle of a dental with twenty extractions and didn't get a chance to peruse the menu of the unfamiliar Chinese place the staff was getting food from. Chicken Kow is generally chicken and mixed vegetables in a very boring sauce, which I can at least be sure I can eat, as opposed to picking something that sounds interesting but possibly finding it unsatisfying or inedible, My fortune cookie reads "You business will be successful."

I'm going to make another attempt at finding this information, as so far neither Google nor several other message boards have been able to help. Years ago (not ancient times, maybe ten or fifteen), I came across an assertion that you could tell how old someone was by how they finished the phrase, "Now you know...." The youngest generation says, "....and knowing is half the battle!" This is from the G I Joe cartoon series. The middle generation would say, "....the rest of the story." This is from a radio personality, Paul Harvey, who used the phrase as a sign-off as well as the name of his show. The older generation would say.....something which I cannot remember. I think it was a phrase from a news anchor, but I'm not positive about that. Everybody, ask your parents/grandparents/mentors/chatty neighbors, see if you can help me with this one! I don't know why I'm so determined to find out the third phrase and its source, but for some reason, it's like a pebble in my shoe.

You know, I find it interesting that so many people, in comic and in forum, feel the need to specifically hold up "some fetish" in contexts that make it sound like having a fetish or acting on it is a bad thing. Like Tedd would be a bad person if he were turning into a girl because of a fetish. Human sexuality is incredibly diverse, and I see no reason we shouldn't just stop at "he's not hurting anyone" and avoid the implication that people with fetishes are somehow inherently bad.

The Downton Abbey marathon is interrupted periodically by pledge breaks. One of the gifts for larger pledge amounts is a set of DVDs which come with a signal pull bell, just like the ones the Family use to summon the Staff from their basement lair on the show. What's most amusing is my own reaction, in that I find myself sorely tempted. I can picture hooking it up to the doorbell, or with a wireless remote, or even running a cord from my bedroom to the kitchen or living room, just to be able to show it off to guests. Totally useless, yet fun to imagine uses for!

Charlotte does have manners and speech patterns that could fit an android quite well.

Anyone know a good way to fake your location?

Well, I did say most boyfriends.... I bought it from the Disney World gift shop after discovering I'd forgotten to pack anything to sleep in, and it was definitely labeled as either a "sleep shirt" or "nightie," I forget which. This is the same company from which I have since purchased both shackles (from the Pirates of the Carribean ride's gift shop) and "Imperial Binders" (from the Star Wars gift shop), so they are either kinkier than they let on, or more oblivious/naïve than a megacorp has any right to be. ;-)

I found some videos on YouTube about homemade alcohol stoves made from soda cans, and have tried out a couple of the designs. I have now bought some Liquid Heet alcohol to try them out with, and need to figure out where and when to test them. I find that I'm now lookign at every empty can as potentially useful. ;-) I've also been learning about eclampsia and antiseizure medications (see the What Are You Watching thread), and did a webinar on cat skin diseases which was quite educational.

Been watching a Downton Abbey marathon on PBS, interrupted as necessary by work and sleep. They just showed the episode where Sybil died. (It's been years, I think I'm allowed to discuss that much!) It inspired me to look up what I'd have used to treat seizures, and see what was available back then. The episode is set in 1920, and the most effective treatment for severe seizure, IV diazepam, wasn't released until 1963! The other standard for seizures, phenobarbital, was on the market by 1912, but it was only known as a sedative, not an anti-seizure medication. The doctor who discovered its anti-seizure properties was, unfortunately, a Jewish doctor in Germany (he eventually went from University Chair to Dachau concentration camp before escaping to America) and the journal he published his findings in was in German; World War I disrupted communication and further slowed the spread of this life-saving information. Apparently about all they would have had for seizures at that time would have been bromide, which has a lot of side effects, or paraldehyde, which has been used for seizures since 1882 and is still used, in some circumstances, to this day, or magnesium sulfate, which I'm not really familiar with but was apparently at least known in that era, but one source says it was another decade before it saw routine use for eclampsia. I can only assume that if Sybil had been taken to the hospital, such drugs would have been an option, but the fact that she gave birth at home would limit them to whatever the doctors had in their bags. The death scene also reminded me of when a coworker had grand mal seizure at work, with strong enough muscle contractions that her diaphragm couldn't move properly and she wasn't breathing for a short time. (People use to think epileptics stopped breathing from swallowing their tongue or the like, but that's just not true and messing with someone's mouth at a time like that is a good way to get your fingers bitten.) My friend's breathing resumed as her seizure eased, but I can really appreciate how well they portrayed Sybil's unrelenting seizure and the way she basically suffocated to death from it! It does seem that they should have shown more concern for Mary when she was pregnant, as one of the major risk factors for eclampsia is having a close relative, like a sister, who's had it. It should have frightened everyone, especially Mary and her husband! Getting off the medical tragedy, it's been fun seeing some of the early episodes, especially the first couple last night. I've caught the odd episode frequently and have seen a few several times, but I don't think I've seen the first few since my first viewing. It's also wonderful to see so many strong women characters, something TV and movies are still so sadly short of most times, and the writing is excellent. :-)

Then there's the Vegetarian Bugblatter Beast of Traal, which one might think would be less dangerous. However, they have a tendency to stomp on intruders until they are a fine paste and then use them as fertilizer, so.... (I think my sister came up with this one, but I am not 100% certain of that. )

I have an oversized T-shirt with Tinkerbell on it which is definitely nothing most boyfriends would wear. It was sold specifically as sleepwear. I wonder how many sleep-shirts are purpose-made versus adopting oversize and/or male shirts?

https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=MOEN-WANDS&Category_Code=MOEN. The only wands a Magical Girl needs!

This was used to excellent effect in a recent Doctor Who episode, "Hell Bent"....