07-02-2012, 09:22 PM
(07-02-2012, 06:38 AM)NuurAbSaal Wrote:(06-29-2012, 11:28 PM)LavCat Wrote:(06-29-2012, 09:53 PM)NuurAbSaal Wrote: Excuse my welfare-state communist ignorance, but is this the origin of the sometimes heard phrase "but we have good dental" in American movies?
It's the fluorides in our body fluids.
Hard as it may be to believe, that was actually a serious question. Watching movies as a youngster I for the longest time had trouble figuring out what that phrase was supposed to mean.
take care
Tarabulus
There seems to be a longstanding trope that British teeth are terrible and by comparison American teeth are better. Having done a little looking I cannot find the origin of it.
But if it's not obvious, my film reference was to Dr. Strangelove.
"I may be old, but I'm not dead."