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

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David Allsopp  <daa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In message <foq86k$97n$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, James Nicoll 
><jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>       [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.
>
>Don't they have the puff-of-air machines in Canada?  They've even made 
>it to the high-street opticians here in the UK -- I've had my eye 
>pressure checked by them for my last two exams, so that's five years at 
>least.

	We do but for some reason the various optometrists up here 
prefer the poker to the puffer. In fact, the young student at UW 
Optometry who examined me a couple of weeks ago was surprised to
learn that the facility even had a puffer (It was in the corner 
of the exam room). 

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