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He uses a phrase to underline this: You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. | He uses a phrase to underline this: You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. | ||
| β | Putting toothpaste back in its tube is often used as an analogy for something irreversible, such as how you can't undo speaking. Megan, however, rejects this assertion and says that you actually ''can'' put toothpaste back in its tube, which is certainly possible in some cases. There are many ways to do this, and none of them are recommendable | + | Putting toothpaste back in its tube is often used as an analogy for something irreversible, such as how you can't undo speaking. Megan, however, rejects this assertion and says that you actually ''can'' put toothpaste back in its tube, which is certainly possible in some cases. There are many ways to do this, and none of them are recommendable, but she chooses a particular nasty one where she would blow the paste in her mouth back into the tube. This is obviously much more unsanitary than simply returning unused toothpaste to the tube, which someone might reasonably want to do after squeezing out more than they wanted. |
Cueball is so disgusted by this suggestion that he states that Megan's suggestion is the worst thing <i>she</i> has ever said. | Cueball is so disgusted by this suggestion that he states that Megan's suggestion is the worst thing <i>she</i> has ever said. | ||
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Toothpaste is normally loaded into the tube from the back, before it is crimped shut. However, it should ''technically'' be possible to push an extruded amount of paste back in from the front by wrapping one's lips around the whole front of the tube and blowing the paste you have in your mouth back in. This positive pressure can re-inflate the tube the same way one blows up a balloon. However, blowing the toothpaste back into the tube would be highly unsanitary, and as the main purpose of toothpaste is to clean teeth, the end result is both counterproductive and disgusting.{{citation needed}} In some cases paste coming out of a tube will be sucked back in if the pressure is released. Such containers would probably be able to suck toothpaste back in, if it was still lying on the toothbrush in one blob (or on the table/in the sink if dropped). As above mentioned this would be unsanitary as germs etc. could get back inside the tube, where the paste is supposed to be clean. | Toothpaste is normally loaded into the tube from the back, before it is crimped shut. However, it should ''technically'' be possible to push an extruded amount of paste back in from the front by wrapping one's lips around the whole front of the tube and blowing the paste you have in your mouth back in. This positive pressure can re-inflate the tube the same way one blows up a balloon. However, blowing the toothpaste back into the tube would be highly unsanitary, and as the main purpose of toothpaste is to clean teeth, the end result is both counterproductive and disgusting.{{citation needed}} In some cases paste coming out of a tube will be sucked back in if the pressure is released. Such containers would probably be able to suck toothpaste back in, if it was still lying on the toothbrush in one blob (or on the table/in the sink if dropped). As above mentioned this would be unsanitary as germs etc. could get back inside the tube, where the paste is supposed to be clean. | ||
| β | The title text spoofs a common line found in toothpaste commercials: "9 out of 10 dentists recommend using our brand." This statement is very easily manipulated through any number of basic marketing tactics (such as only asking 9 dentists, whom are all paid handsomely), and | + | The title text spoofs a common line found in toothpaste commercials: "9 out of 10 dentists recommend using our brand." This statement is very easily manipulated through any number of basic marketing tactics (such as only asking 9 dentists, whom are all paid handsomely), and it's ubiquity lends it to spoofing. In this case, it's spoofed by saying that nine out of ten dentists are ''dis''satisfied with Megan's approach (or with [[Randall]] and his ideas, as it is usually he who speaks in the title text; if it refers to Randall himself it is reminiscent of all the [[:Category:Banned from conferences|conferences he has been banned from]]) and have banned the toothpaste spitter from their offices. |
It may actually say more about any dental establishment that does ''not'' disapprove of what Megan apparently is not just theorizing about doing - but maybe they are disapproving too, just not considering it bad enough to ban her from office. | It may actually say more about any dental establishment that does ''not'' disapprove of what Megan apparently is not just theorizing about doing - but maybe they are disapproving too, just not considering it bad enough to ban her from office. | ||
