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Author: Arivne

Jun 8th 2011 at 1:39:09 AM

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* ''ThePinkPanther Strikes Again''. The BigBad (former Chief Inspector Dreyfus) gets a bad toothache and sends for a dentist. Clouseau pretends to be the dentist and performs dental malpractice on Dreyfus.
->Dreyfus: He has pulled the wrong tooth! There's only one man who would pull the wrong tooth. It's Clouseau! Kill him! Kill him!

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* ''TomSawyer''. Tom has a toothache and his aunt Polly decides the tooth has to come out. She ties one end of a string to the tooth and the other end to a bedpost, then frightens Tom with a hot coal. When Tom jerks away, the string yanks out the tooth.

You can find more examples [[http://tinyurl.com/3g9dgvm here]]: it's a Google search for the word "toothache" on this Wiki. An example from it:

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* StanislawLem's short story "Highest Possible Level of Development" in ''TheCyberiad'' had a drug, Altruzine, that caused tele-empathy. A man with a toothache has the painful tooth ripped out by nearby people who don't want to feel his pain.