Dispensary Corner 05 Aug 10
August 5, 2010
ANYONE for 2nd hand dentures?
Winston Churchill’s dentures
have been sold at an English
auction for a whopping $27,000.
The former English prime
minister led the country between
1940 - 1945 (during WWII) and
again between 1951 - 1955.
His specially made dentures were
an ever present facet of his life,
designed to fit into his mouth loosely,
in order to preserve his famous lisp.
Former owner of the dentures,
the son of the man who created
them, Nigel Cudlipp, told media
that his father used to regale him
with tales of how Churchill would
put his thumb behind the front of
the teeth and flick them out of his
mouth when frustrated.
“My father used to say he could
tell how well the war effort was
going by how far they went across
the room and whether they hit the
opposite wall,” Cudlipp said.
THANKS a bunch for eating my
toe Kiko!
A 48-year old man, Jerry
Douthett, who woke in a drunken
stupor to find his Jack Russell had
gnawed off half of the big toe on
his right foot has praised
his pooch Kiko for saving his life.
Upon waking in a pool of his
own blood and seeing Kiko
sporting a new blood coloured
coat, Douthett woke his wife, a
registered nurse, who immediately
rushed the him to hospital.
It was in the hospital that the
story gets weird-er, as it was there
that doctors discovered Douthett
was in fact actually suffering type
2 diabetes and his gnawed toe
was so badly infected by
complications caused by the
disease that surgeons had to
amputate what was left.
“The moral of the story is that
the dog saved my life, because
otherwise I never would have gone in
to see a doctor,” said Douthett.
His wife Rosee told local media
that she was ‘amazed’ at her
dog’s ability to sense the danger
to its master.
“He kind of chewed off the
infected part and stopped at the
good bone,” she said.
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