Comments on: In Which Smokey the Magnificent Crosses a Line By Posting Photos of Her Dainty Knee on Her Blog

By: smokering

smokering — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:29:02 +0000

I was referring to Miriam’s question about having a whole sapphire tooth. But I suppose the gangster thing is a valid concern, unless you simply learned to smile with your mouth closed.

By: Kovac

Kovac — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:14:56 +0000

I wouldn’t think that the gem would be embedded right through the centre of the tooth or provide a visible path to the inside of your closed mouth.

Wouldn’t it be more of a surface attachment to the tooth?

I would hesitate to get such a piece of ostentatious “bling” for fear that I would be taken for a gangster and killed in a drive-by shooting.

By: smokering

smokering — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:17:19 +0000

You’d have to make sure you chewed with your mouth closed, or you might be able to see the food through the tooth, if it were a paleish sapphire. (Ceylonese, those are; I have one.) And that would be nasty.

Also, I think topaz would be the worst, or yellow sapphires. But I’m not keen on yellow gemstones at the best of times.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:43:32 +0000

It’d be better than an emerald. You could go for one of those cornflower blue sapphires, rather than a midnight blue one, April, then it shouldn’t look too dark.

What about a *whole sapphire tooth*? Like, if you needed a false tooth, just having it made of a sapphire instead of enamel or porcelain or whatever they use? Would that be better or worse?

By: AprilElf

AprilElf — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:29:32 +0000

I like sapphires! Though in a tooth it might appear black rather than blue on first sight, so that might look a bit yuck.

I remember the skates rubbing on my ankles when I went ice skating too. But only realised it was painful when I stopped skating.

By: smokering

smokering — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:37:01 +0000

Yes, but you’d be known for the rest of your life as the girl with the sapphire in her tooth. And people would make bluetooth jokes. And it might get caviar stuck in it.

My knee connected with the ice… repeatedly. I also have a grazed ankle from the skate rubbing, generally sore muscles from unaccustomed movement, and a warm smug glow of virtue on account of the latter.

By: AprilElf

AprilElf — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:06:23 +0000

So you get a sapphire and a million bucks? I think that’s a win-win situation.

Ouch-eeee! What a mighty bruise! What did your knee connect with - the ice or the sides of the rink?

By: Miriam

Miriam — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:52:51 +0000

Whoa, that is an über bruise. I am jealous.

By: Mother

Mother — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:15:05 +0000

But only if it was flush with the surface of the tooth and not in any way sticky-out. As I said at the time.