Like Pulling Teeth
Nov 14, 2007 at 05:43PM
Doug in Humor

Another oldie, this one from Michael…

A guy goes to the dental surgeon to have a tooth pulled. The dentist pulls out a freezing needle to mask the pain.

dentist_06.jpg“No way! No needles! I hate needles!” the patient insists.

So the dentist starts to hook up the laughing gas and again the patient objects. “I can’t do the gas thing. The thought of having the gas mask on is suffocating to me!”

Frustrated, the dentist asks if the man has any objection to taking a pill. “No,” the patient replies, “I’m fine with pills.”

The dentist hands the patient a little cup containing a blue pill and says, “Here, swallow this. It’s a Viagra tablet.”

The patient says, “Gee, I didn’t know Viagra works as a pain pill!”

“It doesn’t,” replies the dentist, “but it’ll give you something to hold onto when I pull your tooth…”

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