Just another manic Monday?

[benjenbav]

Eau Kay, peeps. Lissen up and hit me wid yo ideas.

On Monday morning I have an hour's worth of root canal work to look forward to.

Clearly I am not going to feel like grinding through 8 hours' worth of legal problems afterwards and, in truth, if I did the quality of advice might be patchy: anywhere between genius and "omg I think you just killed the corporation".

So, bearing in mind that I will be flying on some non-prescription medication and with most of the day to fill, what shall I do?

Plan A is to head for the boat and burn some serious diesel.

Suggestions...

 

[rafiki_]

Plan A. Plus ensure that there is plenty of medication aboard in the fridge, should this become necessay.

 

[EME]

BenJenBav

if I did the quality of advice might be patchy: anywhere between genius and "omg I think you just killed the corporation".

Far be it for me to question, but would not your clients be delighted at the potential improvement? Some folks will find any excuse to go boating

 

[benjenbav]

Eifrion, thanks for the vote of confidence I think my clients are too used to "resolutely mundane" as a service level to be able to cope with anything else.

Mind you, I was absolutely on fire the other day...

 

[EME]

Eifrion, thanks for the vote of confidence I think my clients are too used to "resolutely mundane" as a service level to be able to cope with anything else.
Mind you, I was absolutely on fire the other day...

LOL .. I empathise. Everyone around here says more gets done when I'm not around .. and why I get despatched to all the boat shows.

 

[bumpy_the_dog]

Root canal work's not that bad. Man up and get back to work!

 

[jfm]

Root canal work's not that bad. Man up and get back to work!

Exactly. And what's this 8 hours thing? That's a half day surely?

 

[benjenbav]

Root canal work's not that bad. Man up and get back to work!

You haven't met my dentist:

For some reason he keeps on asking me, "Is it safe?"

I've told him that it's very, very safe but he seems to be strangely dissatisfied with my answer.

 

[jfm]

Must be tricky being a dentist to a lawyer. I bet the teachers marking George Carman's children's homework were similarly concerned and just marked everything A+ to avoid any trouble

 

[benjenbav]

Exactly. And what's this 8 hours thing? That's a half day surely?

That put me in mind of the old one about the lawyer being met by St Peter at the Gates of Heaven (lawyers being so angelic that that's where they tend to go, of course).

"Hullo," says St Peter, "John Smith aged 87. You're on the list."

"But", says the lawyer, I'm only 51.

St Pete checks the list again and replies, "Oh, yes. I see what's happened, we were working from your timesheets."

 

[mm1]

wrong forum

not sure why your dentist has to moonlight working on canals & surely this is the wrong forum anyway regards mm1.

 

[Kawasaki]

surely this is the wrong forum anyway regards mm1.

Precisely
Hope yer dentist can navigate down a canal better than you can on the forum Benje

Here's an oldie but a goodie

5 lawyers were out on a boat fishing trip in shark infested waters
One leaned over to far whilst inspecting a catch another lawyer was trying to land and fell in
A shark charged towards Him
The others froze in agast
The shark picked the lawyer up on it's snout and lobbed the lawyer back in the boat!!!
'What the heck der call that' ? said one lawyer to another
'Proffesional etiquette ' tother replied



Back to your origional question however Benj
A Monday will not be long enough for rehab, blimey you need at least till Thursday, then Friday
Just ease back into work slowly

 

[benjenbav]

Anyhow, steering back to boat related activities. When I've finished being dentisted on Monday and get to the boat, where shall I go? I was thinking that it might be a toss up between a cruise up the Beaulieu river, pint at the Master Builder (I'm sure it'll mix with the novocaine) then pick up a buoy lower down the river, have a little snooze and a cuppa and then home or maybe Cowes or the Hamble or maybe even just head west and see where the mood takes me.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Wimp, don't bother with injections, it's not really that bad, well at least if you've got a decent dentist.

 

[lenseman]

Do you need any Imray or Admiralty charts for the Root Canal?

 

[benjenbav]

A man, a plan a canal, Panama.


Is that, at 21 letters, the longest palindrome which actually makes sense?

 

[jfm]

Not sure it actually makes sense. But "Deliver no evil, live on reviled" is 26 letters and kinda makes more sense

Anyway, how did the post-root-canal excursion unfold? Where did you go? Beaulieu and a pint?

 

[vas]

A man, a plan a canal, Panama.


Is that, at 21 letters, the longest palindrome which actually makes sense?

ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ

that's slightly older and 25 letters long

 

[benjenbav]

Well, thanks for the palindromes. I hadn't heard the deliver no evil one and, although it's a bit iffy I kinda like it. It sounds like something Black Sabbath would have painted on the back of the tour bus if they re-form! The other one: elvish?

Update on root canal: I had the work done on Monday; then had a rush job at work which made a client a humungous profit in return for my prostituting my talents until 3 am on Tuesday morning. So no boating. Mais, cest la guerre!

Wednesday saw me back at the dentists having the root canal work re-done: "localised tenderness" having turned into: "omg it hurts" .

Saturday; the level of pain had reached: "writhing about and banging on the table like Meg Ryan in when Harry met Sally" - but not in a good way.

I have reached the conclusion that I have an abscess under the adjacent tooth to the one on which the recent work has been done and am currently consoling myself with painkillers until I have my next dental session on Wednesday morning.

 

[jfm]

Blimey, sorry to hear that. Though thanks for the Meg Ryan and Black Sabbath reminders. If you were in SofF you could buy Amoxycilin OTC to zap the offending abscess on a diy basis. Here you'll have to get a prescription and all that malarky. I hope you can get out on the boat Wednesday afternoon

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