Moon River, wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style

This is my last blog for Dentaprime.

When the overestimated sun takes the place of the gorgeous, underestimated moon,
I will take on a new challenge.

For quite some time now, I have a still largely unwritten book on the shelf, which lies on top of some excellent ideas about professional (blog-)writing. Also, I enjoy taking photos like the above.
Therefore, as of tomorrow, I will give self-employment (combined with a new part-time job) a try.

Remember:

Avoid alliteration. Always.

Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

One should never generalize.

Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

Be more or less specific.

Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

One-word sentences? Eliminate.

The passive voice is to be avoided.

Who needs rhetorical questions?

Take care and let Dentaprime take care of your teeth!

The lion sleeps tonight

There is something about this lion's eyes.


The first time I looked at them, I saw sadness.
The second time, thoughtfulness.
Then wisdom.
At last weariness.

The lion sleeps too tight?

The lion does not sleep at all?

If your teeth give you sleepless nights, give us a call and we will guide you through the dental jungle.

I wanna break free

Freddy Mercury's huge overbite is world-famous. Mercury did not want any dental work done, because he was afraid it would affect his voice.

The overbite was caused by 4 extra teeth that pushed their way to what they thought was second best to freedom: the front of the line.


Such an overbite (but also a smaller one) can cause serious dental problems and soon turn a Bohemian Rhapsody into a Rhapsody in Blue.

When you look in the mirror with closed teeth and see less than half of your lower teeth....
When you look from the side and see your teeth stick out more than normal....
You have an overbite.

You will wear fixed braces, followed by a retainer and after perhaps 5 years, the teeth can participate in a line dance again.

We do not place mercury but we do place veneers, which will be the cherries on the long-baked cake....

Bubbling Almelo (last time, a truck had lost its load of washing powder)

This week, I will spend a long weekend in the Eastern part of The Netherlands. I will probably visit Enschede (do not try to pronounce it; your throat may not survive the brave attempt.)

On 13th May 2000, the SE Fireworks depot in Enschede exploded. 22 People were killed (amongst whom 4 firemen) and 947 were injured. This is what the houses looked like, some time after the explosion.

This part of my country is highly underestimated. Hey, if I did not have two best friends and 7 wonderful cats living in Almelo, I would never even come close...

These people have

a strange accent

at least one wishy-washy soccer team (have to be careful: friends read this blog)

a ridiculous pop band called Normal

a brewery not called Heineken but Grolsch

an industrial zone called Furious Filthy (Dollegoor)

a comedian named Herman (after the first transgenic bull in the world)

etc. etc. etc.

And now -for 3 days only- they have me.

Look, Potter! You've got yourself a girlfriend. (Draco Malfoy)

I am a huge Potter fan, but The Halfblood Prince left me disappointed and annoyed.


Disappointed, because Potter's 6th was more like a highschool story: Harry, Hermione and Ron falling in and out of love.

Annoyed, because ever since I was born, I hate open endings.

The open endings of horror movies keep people coming back for more.
Did you watch Friday the 13th, part 12?
Nightmare on Elm Street, part 8?
Halloween, part 9?
Or did you get a good laugh with Scary Movie, part 4?

At the end of the Greek tragedy Antigone, the protagonist's sister Ismene simply disappears after saying goodbye to daddy Oedipussy and burying her brother Polynices.

Unfinished work from composers never leads to complete satisfaction. I always have the feeling that the best is yet to come. What to think of John and Yoko's 'Two Virgins'?

Dental treatment is one of the things that should not have an open ending. There has to be a clear treatment plan, a more or less reliable cost estimate (medical treatment always involves certain risks), and reasons why someting is (not) done.

Worrying about Harry's dental health (in none of the books or films he has a consultation), I look forward to HP7.

In Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, when Harry finally meets Voldemort, the lad turns out to be a dentist....

On the edge of a nervous breakdown

These are houses. Real houses, not Lego-built.

Let's try to find another picture.....

Slightly better but it still makes me feel nauseous...

My sign is Cancer and that means I am very, very conservative. I prefer sticking with the old to trying something new. I always go to the same restaurants, ordering the same meal for years. If there is a new owner or the menu changes radically, I'm gone.

The architect of these houses may be a very nice, competent man, but his design gives me the creeps. Living in a square house would make me very insecure.

In something called ' hyperbolic geometry', squares with right angles do not exist.
Where would I put my huge flatscreen tv? Where my Kingsize bed for Queens?

In 'spherical geometry', a square is a polygon whose edges are great circle arcs....
See.... again a square with round edges!

In 'Euclidean geometry', finally, a square is a regular quadrilateral.
I cannot pronounce the second word, but the first sounds good to me: regular.

Thank God for Dentaprime's waiting room, where the edges are.... uhm..... round?

Stand up comedy in Bulgaria

“How could they choose Leonardo di Caprio for the movie, he is so effeminate. They should have chosen Bruce Willis.”

“If it were Bruce Willis, the Titanic would never have sunk.”

Bruce Willis' ex, actress Demi Moore, recently published a photo on the Internet where she visits the dentist and misses a front tooth.

Now GI Jane is rich enough to pay the dentist and have the missing tooth replaced by a bridge or an implant. Other people, however, have to tolerate an ugly plate, an old-fashioned Maryland bridge or -even worse- a gap.

'Mind The Gap'

is an announcement that is used by the London Underground when a train arrives at a station.
The biggest gaps to mind today are at Bank Station and at Waterloo Station. The female voice on the announcement is nicknamed 'Sonia' by tube drivers, because her voice 'gets on yer nerves.’

In recent tests somebody mimicking the voice of Marilyn Monroe proved to be a favourite.

I would prefer Joanna Lumley:

'Oops... Mind the gap,

sweetie daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarling.'

(Pats falling into the gap.)

Anyway..... please ask me about the options to replace a missing front tooth.