First of all let me lay the groundwork for this by recalling the "Friends" episode where Ross wanted to whiten his teeth for a date and left the whitening strip on his teeth for too long. His teeth were not only white they were too white. When the lights went off his teeth glowed in the dark. It was hilarious.
That episode is always in the back of my mind when I watch the news shows that I always seem to have on. It seems to be a prerequisite that an online personality, or anyone that is going to be on air, or wants to be on air, has to have their teeth whitened. The problem has become that the level of white being achieved is not a natural white. We have gone past that. Way past. We have achieved blue-white. Just like the headlights.
Yes, we now have headlights for teeth. And like the annoying, in-your-face brights, you can't avoid the pearly whites in the split screen world of today's news broadcasts. When three of the four mouths going ninety miles an hour are flashing like morse code and one poor little mouth is in a corner merely speaking, you can't help but notice (well, I can't). Sadly, that person is usually a "normal" person, i.e. not in any public relations industry, a lawyer, a legislator, or in show business. And their teeth aren't by any means yellow - their teeth are normal and merely white. Just not glow-in-the-dark blue-white.
Not that there are not good reasons to whiten your teeth. How much whiter can we make them? They are turning faint blue already - take a look. We have halogen teeth, people. This is just a trend that has gotten way out of hand, and I think the next thing we are going to see, and I don't know how long it's going to take to see it, is the costly repair of over whitening. There's a reason nature didn't want us to glow in the dark when we smiled, and just because we don't get pounced on when we smile at night now doesn't mean we need to do it. Moderation people, moderation.
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I understand your rant,but have you made your appointment yet? I have been to the Dr. and he was very helpful this time. Could be that the accident he had while mountain biking shook him a bit. It was about the time Pop thought he had broken a rib.The Dr. had 7 broken ribs and several other things.
I have enjoyed your rants and I hope you keep them up. It is somewhat my laugh for the day. I miss you very much and just haven't been able to blog so this is good for me.
Missing you a bunch,sigh. Love and kisses to all(yes even Ozzie and Sheba.
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