You are the reason why we can't have nice things.

Didn't mean it sarcastically, but if it came across that way, I'm sorry.

Heh, you want to discover a wonderful new smell? Check out "ANUG." Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. Army tabbed it "trench mouth." Stinks like a rotting corpse with a freshly pierced bowel.

This one says cut it with at least 50% water, or else.

Never really understood the whole "deathly afraid of the dentist" thing. It's called lidocaine, and it works. And I am actually quite a charming fellow. Kids and dogs love me. (Yeah...cats, not so much.)

Simple answer, "evidence-based medicine." We are also leeching bad blood and treating humors far less frequently these days! In 150 years when self-replicating DNA matched nanobots are maintaining human health, we will look back on current practices as similarly antediluvian. Nerd Mic-Drop.

Then get up close to a mirror while wearing a headlamp, and get something clean, narrow and blunt with which to gently prod your tonsil crypts. Take deep slow breaths and chill out, this isn't brain surgery. If you gag yourself, you are clearly NOT the master of your domain.

As somebody who gets to claim 6 years of graduate work learning the mouth, allow me to put in one word: tonsiliths. Brush waaay back on your tongue, look in the mirror. See white stones on your tonsils? Find a friend who loves you to fleck them off if you can't do it. They reek of putrefaction.

I have been pissed at my high school ever since they had a vote to change our mascot from the Griffins to the Bulldogs. Egregious.

Do models of string theory project the possibility of multiple branes within the multiverse capable of having the same cosmological constants, or are the specifics values of the constants basically a fractal that can only occur once? What would be the implications of two "universes" with identical cosmological…

Need a flag to compete.

What about floor gymnastics? A whole bunch could beat him at that. Maybe not the rings.

The Kenner toy ties it back to my childhood more succinctly, but yes. This wins.

Real, or fake?

From Wiki:
A week into filming, Francis felt the infected (referred to as "Dark Seekers" or "hemocytes" in the script), who were being portrayed by actors wearing prosthetics, were not convincing. His decision to use computer-generated imagery resulted in an increased budget and extended post-production, although the…

This is so unbelievably dead on. The irony is sort of dumbfounding. "It was giant government conspiracy... it is impossible for lone actors to circumvent the protections of our system without nefarious assistance!", claims the guy who just. did. that.

Fluoride. Get some.

Blade II. Pearl got a sunburn.

I always wondered, where is the equivalent backlash against the science of iodizing salt?

Are the protagonists of this story really "dentists and candy companies," or was it more likely a small group of scandinavian dental researchers with a corporate sponsorship? Seems like a pretty broad brush you're painting with there.