"Hello dental centre (USAF) experts. I was in here last week for a filling and the chap from Marathon Man suggested that I may need root canal treatment if his efforts failed."
(blank stares re Marathon Man ref)
"I have toothache, permanently."
"Would you like an appointment to see a dentist?"
"No, no, I just popped in to find out which tooth was playing up and then smash it out with a chisel and mallet."
(silence ...... what have they heard re Brit dentistry?)
MM
They're going to replace the anaesthetic with H20 tomorrow... bugger.