teachers' personal lives

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190244



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> Sssusan:
> >> WHY is there any witch or wizard with rotten or yellowed teeth?

 Bart:
> > It's a Brit thing.

Geoff:
> > What, what, what, what, what.....?

> > Would you care to enlarge on that statement, good sir?
 
Bart:
>
> It's an old stereotype, but one that I have heard the British tell 
> on themselves. There are various reasons, most recently because of the 
> difficulty in getting NHS dental care; rather than put up a bunch of 
> links, just type british bad teeth into any search engine and you will 
> get dozens of sites discussing it. Even the Beatles made fun of it in 
> the George Harrison song, "Savoy Truffle".

Geoff:
This is going dangerously OT and will probably have to be deported to 
OTC before much longer, but I might just say that I haven't heard Brits 
telling this kind of thing against themselves - and I'm English. HAnds off 
our NHS.

If you do look for links, there's quite a lot of criticism on the way that
some Americans have to have teeth which are too perfect to be natural 
and too white also.

This link reflects your comment to a point but also has a few sharp things 
to say about the US nice teeth fixation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7633254.stm

I had crowns some years ago because I needed them but the rest of my teeth 
are my own, bless 'em. They are not yellowed and I may have a crooked one 
or so, but so what?

OK, so Fenrir probably has grotty teeth; there are one or two references to them
but one might expect that judging by the sort of character he  is.