My dentist lives in rural Alabama he has a historic grave yard ful of broken headstones while I live in rural Mississippi and I have a wife and child and a back molar a family besieged with tooth problems I tiried the old string to the door knob ; then I tried rubbing "shine " on the affected spot ; finally I gave in and called the Doc up ...We trade tooth for stone .... . His studio is a lage multi tiered long cabin complex raised on ten huge steel I beams over a magical river All the logs are 150yrs old and hand hewn . The inside has hand carved M&T circular stair way made of cypress stairs anchored into a peeled sycamore tree The Doc ( a nationaly well known oral sugeon ) has h 1.5 mil in computers and equptment installed in there My wofe ( the architect ) needs three implants ; Peanut has two broken teeth (soccer & baseball);and whatever else kids have I need a crown at the top and bottom of my mandrill for not keeping my yap shut . We get there and the both of them are in the chair at 9am ; I get five broken headstones "set" by noon . They got Peanut on the nitrous and shes talking to blue elephants. ; the Mrs is doing ok but communicates by sign language and guttural sounds that are most unbecoming . She has another hour in the chair ; . I take a quick repast at the local with a ploughmans lunch and a bowl of the home made split Pea soup ( with the Hamhocks) while imbibing two jars of the oatmeal stout then its back to the bone yard . I get another two big ones set using long clamps and the Sika 31 for the structual rigidity broken headstones require . I used to use pins but no more ;(unless necessary for slippage ) after Katrina went trough one graveyard the repaired headstones with pins did more damage to themselves than the ones not pinned . If a headstone is to break again you want it to break at the repair I get into the chair at 3pm and I am getting the nitrous Peanut sez I was "funny" I don't remember . ;but I do remember talking epoxies with the Doc . He shows me a little plastic syringe that ejects a small amopunt of epoxie to replace the missing emnamel of a tooth .It comes in four zones of tooth color and costs the doc $80 bucks a whack for one small syringe . While my epoxie costs $134.00 for about two gallons We go back next week for round two ; and most likely another one after that I figure I have another two days and an afternoon to putty cracks N" awlins finishes up in two weeks ; what a city and I m not talking just the quarter Wild ..Crazy in a Berlin /Wiemar republic sort of way with a cast of characters right out of mid night cowboy mets the French commune and Not a bad meal anywhere ; try the Char broiled errsters ; red fish cajun or Poorboys mounded high with so much fresh crab you can't finish or fresh shrimp ;or roast duck or ;roast beef all under ten dollars includes a cold jar of the dark Abita "Jockomo " will send pictures of Spirit statue as I am a bit of a Ludite ...Peanut will have to guide me to make sure they are sent /Py -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>