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Word discovered in orthodontist's waiting room shock
Posted by Lucas Hare on 20 May 2008 - 12:12pm.
Every six weeks or so, I have to take my thirteen year old daughter for a check up at the orthodontist's in Enfield. She always gets great pleasure out of the reading material available there; and I suggested today that instead of just reading the magazine, she could participate in one of their silly but rather enjoyable games.
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Me too
I found a dog eared copy of word in Cambridge's Regent Street dental practice whilst waiting for a new cap on one of my chipped front nashers last week. I read Good Housekeeping's top ten tips for making the perfect crispy roast potato instead though.
Not a subscriber's copy...
...must be an NHS Practice.
Sniffs haughtily
Open Wide
I picked up on Word because of my local Dentist's.
About 4 years I found a few copies in amongst the usual suspects - gardening, womens titles, yachts (?).
I haven't been to the Dentist since, but became a regular reader of The Word and eventually a subscriber.
Another few years, at this rate,
and you'll turn into a Shane MacGowan look-alike. Get a check-up, laddie, and stop prevaricating.
Open Wider
I found a copy in my dentist's waiting room. A little surprised, I asked him (before I was rendered speechless by the insertion of various instruments) if he was the subscriber. Looking somewhat quizzical, he asked 'to what?'. 'Why that excellent magazine the Word taht you have in your waiting room' I replied. 'We get our magazines as job lots' he said dimissively ' I never read them'.
I swear he twisted those probes into my gums!
Gavin
Where are all these dentists?
I was at my own dentist's surgery having my wallet extracted last week. Despite parting me from almost £400 he couldn't do better than a dog-eared copy of Readers' Digest for the waiting room.
Open Wide
My dentist is the spitting image of Howe Gelb.
Years ago ......
Years ago in my dentist's in some random woman's magazine there was a filled in "How is your sex life" questionaire. Evidently the lady who completed it in had decided against sending it in and donated the mag to the densists waiting room having forgot she answered the questionaire. Right, the husband of the lady's occupation was a dentist (oops) and let's put it this way, he wasn't ticking her boxes, which she'd clearly explained by the ticking of boxes. The sex-life was non existant and yes, she had considered having an affair. What made me laugh out loud though was that her male sexual fantasy figure was Des O' Connor.
I have an NHS dentist
who also stocks a number of Word backcopies.
You're lucky to be able to find one.
An NHS dentist, that is. It seems lots of practices, NHS or not, use the same company to supply their mags, because my dentist too has Word available in the rack for a quick pre-torture perusal.
Was this the result of some cunning scheming from Messrs E & H, or is it just that whoever runs the Mag supply company likes a bit of Supertramp when he's relaxing?
Yep, me too!
I first spotted Word in the dentist as well actually. Was quite irritated when I couldn't finish reading the article...
Root Canal
At the dentist tomorrow, will let you know if there's any fresh copies in. Somehow I doubt it though. Oh the joy, it's quite sad when you look forward to finishing work early to attend the Dentist isn't it?