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So I did the once for all thing: I called my French friend Ginette at Niort, France. The meaning is what it seemed to be from the beginning , but the genuine French expression, no longer used in today's speach is: "Mentir comme un arracheur de dents".  Translation: "To lie like a tooth jerker" It dates from the days when the word dentiste was not yet in use. I'm not sure if today's dentists are completely free from deceiving actions like their free style predecessors. Sometimes advising expensive treatments which are maybe not that necessairy. (hope not to offensive possible dentists at the board, who of course would never be like that).
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how was your last haircut?
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Free style.
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So I did the once for all thing: I called my French friend Ginette at Niort, France. The meaning is what it seemed to be from the beginning , but the genuine French expression, no longer used in today's speach is: "Mentir comme un arracheur de dents". Translation: "To lie like a tooth jerker" It dates from the days when the word dentiste was not yet in use.
I'm not sure if today's dentists are completely free from deceiving actions like their free style predecessors. Sometimes advising expensive treatments which are maybe not that
necessairy. (hope not to offensive possible dentists at the board, who of course would never be like that).
Wow! You really pulled out all the stops!
Thanks. 
(I hope that was a collect call!)
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how was your last haircut?
Ho! you watchbird in the woods! This is from Wikipedia:
The barbers of former times were also surgeons and dentists. Most early physicians disdained surgery, and therefore, as well as haircutting, hairdressing and shaving, barbers performed surgery of wounds, blood-letting, cupping and leeching, enemas, and the extraction of teeth. Thus they were called barber surgeons and they formed their first organisation in 1094.
So your haircut remark can pass on for fitting in the setting of this thread. I didn't know what it meant
anyway, but there sure is something fishy about that remark
No, Hydra ,thanks, it was nice to talk with her anyway.
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how was your last haircut?
Ho! you watchbird in the woods! This is from Wikipedia:
The barbers of former times were also surgeons and dentists. Most early physicians disdained surgery, and therefore, as well as haircutting, hairdressing and shaving, barbers performed surgery of wounds, blood-letting, cupping and leeching, enemas, and the extraction of teeth. Thus they were called barber surgeons and they formed their first organisation in 1094.
So your haircut remark can pass on for fitting in the setting of this thread. I didn't know what it meant
anyway, but there sure is something fishy about that remark
No, Hydra ,thanks, it was nice to talk with her anyway.
Wow.
I just can't imagine my Dentist giving me an enema!!
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world" -Michael Crichton
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Long as he does your teeth first.
Course, you don't know what he's done with the last patient.
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