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Question for November 19 - December 2, 1998:

Which would you rather be trapped in...

A Blood-Pressure Suit

OR

A Dentist Chair?

 

Details:

  • These options require a good bit of explanation. This is the first alternative: You know the blood-pressure gauges that doctors use? Well, imagine having on a whole suit that's like that thing. And there is a doctor standing there holding the pump, and from time to time he looks at the gauge and says "I don't think it's quite tight enough yet," and squeezes it a few more times, tightening the entire suit.
  • Second option: You are strapped down in a dentist chair (you can't move your arms or legs). Sitting beside you is a dentist with his full array of tools, and he keeps picking up random ones to use in your mouth next (e.g. the hook thingie, the vacuum thingie, the electric toothbrush thingie...) and there is no end in sight. If you refuse to open your mouth, he's going to do his best to use it in your mouth anyway.

Special thanks to Devang Gujarathi for this week's second option!

RESULTS:

Dentist Chair: 8
Blood-Pressure Suit: 2


Name: dev
Choice: Suit
Comments: i can afford to lose some weight and thighten up those not-so-tight "problem" areas.


Name: Becky Apgar
Choice: Chair
Comments: I would be scared of getting permenently stuck in the blood-Pressure suit. FOREVER!!!!!!


Name: Bonnie
Choice: Chair
Comments: As unpleasant as the dentist chair may be at least you'll have clean teeth after it's all over.


Name: Scott Hardister
Choice: Chair
Comments: i would rather be stuck in the dentist chair because i have good health, but i need my teeth cleaned


Name: Cliver
Choice: Suit
Comments: I don't know if i can do this, but i woulda voted for the guy with the hook if i had had a chance last time. Anyway not that there is any thing good about a blood-pressure suit, but the dentist thing just makes me cringe. If he is anything like my dentist, he just talks to the nurse(or whatever you call those people) paying little attention to what he is doing with my teeth, the most "permanent" part of my body (the very things that iddentify me after my fingerprints are long decomposed). Occasionally he looks down and says "hold still." then he makes that sucking in sound like something is wrong. Anyway, what was i saying... Oh yeah, Im not so sure that T-Bone is a real dentist anyway no matter what the back of his jacket says.


Name: Scott "Anesthesia" Galbraith
Choice: Chair
Comments: I can't stand blood-pressure stuff, plus I think dentist chairs are the most comfortable seats in the world (besides Kevin's twin chairs, and if you haven't tried sitting on one next to Kevin, Ladies, you should try sometime). I can easily stand the pain of the Dentistry tools, plus I'm sure he'd faint from my bad breath.


Name: Taylor
Choice: Chair
Comments: I would choose the dentist chair, because, you said that he was picking things up to use in my mouth. You never said that he/she was actually using them. Anyway in my version the dentist is Jennifer Lopez and she could do anything to me that she wanted. That my two cents and now I'm broke.....


Name: ryan h
Choice: Chair
Comments: just because


Name: Noremac
Choice: Chair
Comments: Well I have never really minded the dentist. Whereas a certain someone (I won't mention any names...but her initials are Emily Schreiber (that's right Megan's Sister)) once took my b.p.for practice and my arm started turning blue and going numb. Needless to say it was not a pleasant experience. But just to set things straight I am not bitter and now that she has had more practice she can take my b.p. anytime. (have to throw that in incase any of the fam stops by)


Name: Joe "Pantalones" Slack
Choice: Chair
Comments: I don't mind the dentist, plus after a few pumps, I wouldn't be able to breath in the blood-pressure suit. I have never hd a cavity either, so I don't know how awful all of those tools are. Hence, it can't be that bad and I can still breath. Lastly, I have just one word: NITROUS!!!!!!!!!


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