<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "hugheshugo"
> <richardhughes103@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 5/14/06 9:42:47 A.M. Central Daylight
Time,
> > > richardhughes103@ writes:
> > >
> > > What is it with Americans and English teeth? Do you still all
> > > worship Donny Osmond or something?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I think Americans just bred out bad teeth over the past three
> and
> > a half
> > > centuries. Most of all my ancestors came from England starting
> > about 1640
> > > through 1680 and my teeth and my families teeth have all been
> > straight, like "Donny
> > > Osmond's"!
> > >
> >
> > No way! I thought it was all down to heavy dentistry when young,
> all
> > those retainers and everything.
> >
> > When my sister moved to California her two kids had "normal"
> english
> > teeth, the next time I saw them they had the typical American
> ruler
> > straight dazzlingly white gnashers, the full Osmond in fact.
> >
>
>
> What a great _expression_: "The Full Osmond".
>
> It should become part of the Lexicon of the English
language: "teeth
> that appear as perfect cylindrical chicklet-shaped choppers
> constructed in the American dentistry school style."
>
And a good definition too, shame it won't get used much in England!
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