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

In article <foso8v$t76$4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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John M. Gamble <jgamble@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <foq86k$97n$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>In article
<f45d3fa8-20be-42ff-a394-204d38987beb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <Mark_Reichert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>On Feb 11, 1:21 pm, jdnic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) wrote:
>>>> In article <yb1sj.40$pl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,Mike Schilling
>>><mscottschill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> >James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> >> This is from the other Roy Scheider movie people are likely to
>>>> >> have seen, ALL THAT JAZZ.
>>>>
>>>> >The other other iconic Scheider movie (and the only one of the three
I've
>>>> >seen) is "Marathon Man".  Scheider *is* Scylla.
>>>>
>>>> >"He was Scylla the Rock, and he had promises to keep."
>>>>
>>>>         I've never seen that one.
>>>
>>>"Is it safe?"  #70 on the "100 Years...100 Movie Quotes" list.
>>>
>>> Also not a movie to see with a dentist appointment approaching.
>>>
>>	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.   
>>
>
>Huh.  I wonder if this was a prevailing attitude during a particular
>decade.

	This was in the UK in the early 1960s.

	I think it had something to do with my parents' incredible 
ability to choose bad doctors. For example, when I was getting my 
eye checked two weeks ago, the student was surprised that the 
optometrist who handled my case when I was 6 hadn't bothered to do 
something about my amblyopia when I was young enough for it to matter.
As it turns out, I know someone else treated by the same guy
for the same problem who also didn't get an eye-patch and another
person whose vision actually got worse after seeing this guy. 

	
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