BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???

Subject: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 05:43 PM

Okay, seems like more and more of the plus-60 generation got danged tooth picks stickin' out of their mouths like they were some kinda status symbol???

What the heck gives???

I mean, not just men womenz, too...

B;~)-

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 05:59 PM

When you get to that age, there's lots of things get stuck in your teeth (not just tooth-picks).

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Paul Burke
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 06:35 PM

Why don't they just use nose- pickers?

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: MarkS
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 07:25 PM

For many it is a substitute for cigaretts and is a quitting aid.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 07:56 PM

I hadn't noticed such but I live in East Overshoe, New Brunswick, Canada and we are behind times so I guess I'll have to wait for the trendy stuff to catch on here in a while.

Or, I could have said...WTF are you on about?

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 09:22 PM

It's the flossers that have been tossed away that gross me out.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 09:32 PM

Well, Rap... You ever had a big goober stuck in yer teeth and looked down in front of the greasy spoon that you just ate at and you tempted to pick up a toothpick outta the parking lot and get the goober out with it???

BTW, this same question is on the Wes Ginny I.Q. test so give it some serious thought...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Gurney
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 09:34 PM

Receding gums are the very reason that we get 'long in the tooth.' Since your teeth taper as they go into the gums, more food gets lodged..... Do I need to go on?

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 02:31 AM

How 'bout them tooth pickers, ain't they swell?
They'll have clean teeth, but they're going to hell.
They'll go to hell with them nasty teeth flossers,
Who litter the world, them teeth flosser tossers...

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: kendall
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 11:51 AM

When I see someone with a toothpick it indicates that they have teeth.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 12:23 PM

That's the Treasury training class in observation and deduction talking.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 12:24 PM

Toothpick chewing is a potentially dangerous activity. People have been known to inhale the things when some unexpected occurence has caused a sharp intake of breath.

Somehow, my desire to look like a Bubba doesn't stack up very well against my desire to avoid going to the emergency room to have a toothpick removed from my trachea.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: saulgoldie
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 12:59 PM

Picks made of teeth? Um, mine are usually plastic.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 02:16 PM

I think there is a nerve disorder that causes the jaw to sag, the mouth to hang open, and the tongue to protrude. People with this disorder find it easier to hold their mouths shut if they have something to hold in their mouths at all times. A toothpick or a straw works.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 02:19 PM

It all started way back in the late 60's in the movie "Bonnie & Clyde". Warren Beatty, playing a devastatingly handsome and devil-may-care Clyde, was shown chatting up Bonnie (Faye Dunaway), whilst suggestively playing with a toothpick that he kept twiddling about fetchingly in his teeth. That scene was followed by an armed robbery and a fast getaway in a stolen car.

The sheer sexiness and adventure of it all blew people away, and they've been using toothpicks ever since to make the world realize that they are just a little like Clyde Barrow...or Bonnie Parker.

Try it! Statistics show that you WILL impress people and score lotsa hot dates by walking around with a toothpick in your mouth, specially if you twiddle it just right.

George Clooney does it.

Richard Gere does it.

Tommy Lee Jones does it.

Why shouldn't you?

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 02:53 PM

It's silly.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: JennieG
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 04:27 PM

Perhaps it is suggestive, but of what? Something quite short, thin and wooden?

Um.........nuh.

Cheers
JennieG giving the girly point of view

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 05:40 PM

Humph. Sceptics! Cynics! You people would never make it in Hollywood.

;-D

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 06:08 PM

I don't think it's prevalent around here in Michigan. My father, a Minnesota farmer, "accessorised" with a toothpick just about constantly for many years before his death in 1980; his formal education was only eighth grade, but that wasn't by choice, and I don't think anyone ever took Dad for a "Bubba" type. Hadn't thought about the toothpick thing one way or another for long years.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: kendall
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 07:35 PM

Calvin Coolidge used to do that and you can't call him sexy.

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 09:24 PM

Well, there are some people who even a toothpick can't help! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What's with all these tooth-pickers???
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 09:46 PM

I actually bought toothpicks the otherday for the first time in my life. It's a late middle- aged receding gums thing; now i'm 57 and I have a mouth full of expensive dentistry, i'm far less willing to let the debris take care of itself than I used to be.