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Article #104984Re: Recently my son, Jack, committed suicide after loosing the account he worked on for about two years on Eve-online.
From: Gerry Quinn
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:25
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:25
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In article <1146761518.935167.126160@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>, linch9@gmail.com says... > magnate wrote: > > > > P.S. What's the origin of the thing about Brits having bad teeth? I was > > watching Family Guy on DVD and there's a hysterically funny episode > > about that. It's been in the Simpsons too, and other comedy - where > > does it come from?? I mean, why are we lampooned for our teeth instead > > of greasy hair, bandy legs or any other physical impairment? > > > You have to blame Mike Myers of Austin Powers who started all things. > Though, he make it popular in some of his skits while he was with > Saturday Night Life. Whatever started it, it wasn't Mike Myers. I'd guess it goes back to the 50s. Probably British dental care was not great, whereas USians started getting their teeth whitened and straightened to a degree which Rightpondians found as freakish and unnatural as silicone tits. So both sides were inclined to rib the other about it. - Gerry Quinn
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!news.indigo.ie!not-for-mail From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: Recently my son, Jack, committed suicide after loosing the account he worked on for about two years on Eve-online. Message-ID: <MPG.1ec44964c45a2cbd98add7@news1.eircom.net> References: <1145936738.576311.111730@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <fTe5g.9728$ca3.6581@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net> <4fue52ltgv24d1pfb02qudidbje694md24@4ax.com> <1146585226.050740.7420@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <_C16g.4281$yM.3853@tornado.socal.rr.com> <oaa3a5iyypj6.145vrqqnadg6.dlg@40tude.net> <1146754633.077732.62490@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1146761518.935167.126160@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> Organization: Bindweed Entertainment Software MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.60.2060 Lines: 25 Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 18:25:31 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.42.32.114 X-Complaints-To: abuse@eircom.net X-Trace: news.indigo.ie 1146763531 86.42.32.114 (Thu, 04 May 2006 18:25:31 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:25:31 BST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit