Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm

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>On Feb 11, 1:21 pm, jdnic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) wrote:
>> In article <yb1sj.40$pl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,Mike Schilling
><mscottschill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >James Nicoll wrote:
>> >> This is from the other Roy Scheider movie people are likely to
>> >> have seen, ALL THAT JAZZ.
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>> >The other other iconic Scheider movie (and the only one of the three
I've
>> >seen) is "Marathon Man".  Scheider *is* Scylla.
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>> >"He was Scylla the Rock, and he had promises to keep."
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>>         I've never seen that one.
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>"Is it safe?"  #70 on the "100 Years...100 Movie Quotes" list.
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> Also not a movie to see with a dentist appointment approaching.
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	I've mentioned I have dentist phobias, right? My first
dentist was unspeakably awful: didn't like to use pain killers,
had a slow drill, tended to use tem****ary fillings if he thought
he could get away with it. Thank goodness for nitrous.   

	[I also have an uncontrollable flinch reflex when it comes
to the eye pressure test that involves prodding my eye with a probe,
although I am not nearly as embarrassed about that as having to make
an ego roll every six months when it is time to get my teeth checked.
In fact, I'd like to ask the guy who invented that device what part 
of "prob my eye with a rigid object" he or she [1] expected people to
like?]

1: I joke. I can't imagine a woman thinking "Yeah, just run a solid object
into their open eye at slow speed. That'll work. And it's not like I can
safely avoid having my eye pressure checked. 

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