Conference back40::soapbox

Why?  Are you down in the mouth about the Digital Dental Plan?  Looking for
something to bridge the gap?

    
    
    I think MOLAR::DELBALSO should address this issue......

    Everyone is going to have to bite the bullet eventually.

    YAGN

    Well I will be having some expensive work done
    soon and I am looking for a way to pay for it.
    If I could find a dentist that charged what J.H.
    calls reasonable costs, I would be afraid to use
    them :). J.H.'s 80% usually works out to be 50%-40%.
    

According to my father, a dentist, the best plan is to either
marry a dentist, or have one of your offspring marry one.

Your father's a dentist?  That explains why you're named Molar.

    Did you say your father was a deist?

    
    	RE: Topaz
    
    	You wanna explain that for Raq & Deb?  Thanks.
    

	er, why would you think raq or deb would need an explanation, shawn?
	

    
    Get a clue, Shawn 8^p.  

	shawn has not answered the question posed in .13.  raq or
	deb, would you care to explain the question to shawn? ;>

    
    Well, I would, but I'm so dumb I have a hard time understanding words
    of greater than one syllable.
    
    Isn't that right, Shawn.

    ...
    

    
    Oh good, all those words only had one syllable each.
    
    {flutter}{flutter}
    
    

    
    	RE: Di/Deb
    
    	Actually, I was pretty sure Raq would need an explanation, but
    	I didn't want to single her out so I added a 2nd name ... and
    	Deb's was the 1st one that came to mind.
    
    	[So I guess you'd heard that joke before, eh Deb?  8^)]
    
    	And notice I didn't limit this to 1 syllable words ... sort of
    	like "etymological gymnastics" for the language impaired.
    
    	8^)
    

    Call me clairvoyant, but I sense Shawn is gonna get smaqed. :-) :-)

    Well I don't want those big words to loosen
    any teeth
    
    	o  o
          ^
       $$$$$$

re .19:

Shawn, you're digging yourself in deeper.

re .20:

Shouldn't that be "smaqqed"?

    
    Actually, I think it's smaqed.
    
    
    

    
    Did it ever strike you, Shawn, that casting aspersions on someone's
    mental capacity is NOT the way to make friends and influence people? 
    Is it any business of yours whether or not someone needs a joke
    explained to her?  You could have let her make the request herself if
    you were so concerned about increasing her humour quotient.
    
    I didn't need to have heard the joke before to understand it.  I CAN
    read, and I believe Raquel can read also.

    
    
    Miss Deb, who are you kidding, we here all know that you women just
    don't have the mental capacity to understand things like us men can. 
    It's a biological chemistry type thing (that means it's natural).  Now
    just sit there and look pretty like a good girl.
    
    hope this helps,
    
    Mike "valuing differences" Wannemacher
    

	.19  man, oh man.

    
    	Alright, maybe it's not the greatest idea in the world to use
    	my mother or my 25-year old sister as reference points for the
    	whole female gender, but I do.  If you don't explain a joke to
    	them, in detail, with diagrams, they just don't get it.  And
    	even then, it's a coin flip.
    
    	Now lighten up!!  8^)
    

    
    
    Why would you have to draw diaphrams?????

    
    	Yeah, right ... just what I'd need is something else getting in
    	the way of an explanation!!
    

    
    well Shawn, you seem to be tripping over your words, without Mike's
    or anyone elses help for that matter.

    
    first of all, for the record, it's {smaq}'d (or smaq'd without the {}).
    
    second of all, shawn, dear fellow, if your mother and your sister are
    what you use as a stereotype for all females, then i predict you are
    going to be a bachelor for a very long time.
    
    thirdly, i didn't need the stupid joke explained to me.  i don't
    normally need any explained, tho i admit there have been some.
    
    next time you choose to insult someone, at least get the punchline
    right.
    
    

    Eye dont unnerstand enny off this mans tawk.
    
    

    	re .9
    
    	Isn't that a racist joke?
    
    	re .0
    
    	We Orcans (?  nee DECcies) are finding that the Oracle dental plan 
    	is much better than the one that DEC offers.

| Eye dont unnerstand enny off this mans tawk.

	Mans tawk eeezzz me specialty!

    What is the Oracle dental plan? 
    

    Sounds more like a consulting firm than an insurance plan...
    Is there a phone number?
    
    

	sort of like a toothsayer then.

Groan!

    Re: .35
    
    >We Orcans (?  nee DECcies)
    
    I've used the term "Oracleer."

    	I like Oracleer better than Orcan.  (Or Orcoid, Oracalite, 
    	Oracalian, Oracler, ...)

    	As for why the Oracle plan is better, so far I've found that
    	they are paying a better percentage of non-maintenance stuff,
    	and they are paying 100% of all maintenance stuff.  Also they
    	pay 50% up to $2000 for orthodontics.  If I recall, DEC only
    	paid 50% up to $500.  Also, Oracle in essence picks up the
    	employee-paid portion of the dental insurance plan which is
    	$38/month for the full family plan.

    	Sounds good, does anyone have a phone # for Oracle?
    
    	thanks.

    
    number for Oracle?? sure its 1-800-crystal-ball. HTH

    	Um, I misread the basenote when I originally replied.
    
    	Oracle is not a supplementary dental plan.  It is the 
    	dental plan that we who work at Oracle Systems get as
    	a dental benefit, just as you get one from DEC that you	
    	feel the need to supplement.