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Grins and GroansFather: "When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he walked 12 miles to get to school." Sign in a veterinarian's office: The doctor is in. Sit. Stay. For-sale ad in Gary, Indiana, Post-Tribune: "Stair-stepper with exercise video. Equipment new, owner old." - Oliver W. Holmes Fun FactThe word dentist comes from the French word dent, "tooth," and was first used in the mid-1700s. At first, the typical English dentist didn't much like the word and preferred to be called a tooth-drawer. Fortunately, the French influence won out over the Old English word töth. Otherwise, today we might be called toothists. Brain TeasersThe ages of a father and a son add up to 55. The father's age is the son's age reversed. How old are they? What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it? Peter and John had a picnic. Peter had already eaten half of the muffins when John ate half of the remaining muffins plus three more. There were no muffins left. How many muffins did they take to the picnic? Forward I am heavy. Backward I am not. What am I? You can't keep this until you have given it. A man was telling me on a particular occasion, "The day before yesterday I was 35 years old and next year I will turn 38." How can this be? What 11-letter word is pronounced incorrectly by more than 99% of college graduates? How may cookies can you eat on an empty stomach? It occurs once in a minute, twice in a week, and once in a year. What is it? One Tough Tongue Twister See if you can read this tongue twister aloud in 25 seconds or less. Esau Wood would saw wood. Oh, the wood that Wood would saw! One day, Esau Wood saw a saw saw wood as no other wood-saw Wood ever saw would saw wood. Of all the wood-saws Wood ever saw saw wood, Wood never saw a wood-saw that would saw like the wood-saw Wood saw would. Now Esau saws wood with that wood-saw he saw saw wood. Dental trivia tidbits When George Washington led American forces in the Revolutionary War, there were no toothbrushes. People were expected to be edentulous (toothless) by the time they reached age 30. Washington had several sets of false teeth, none of which fit very well. False teeth, or dentures, were very expensive in those days and only the wealthy could afford them. Washington had one set made from walrus tusks. Other materials used for making false teeth included wood, ox teeth, elephant tusks and animal bones. People even had dentures made from the teeth of people who sold their teeth for money. Cures for a toothache included biting on a piece of wood from a tree that was struck by lightening and treating the tooth with the extract of a plant grown in the skull of an animal. |
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