363a - How Many Doses Of Orajel Would It Take To Numb "The Crowd"?

(One big one! - Mr. Silver)

[11:46 AM] Ms. Rose:

Ever had any Orajel? Holy cow, my face is numb! (Which is good, because my broken teeth were trying to climb their way out of my jaw.)

I'm gonna go see if Sam's Club sells "family size" Orajel in a tub. And just dip my whole head into it.

[12:05 PM] Mr. Silver:

So as far as euthanasia or execution goes...you'd go with Orajel?

[12:06 PM] Mr. Brown:

That would be a strange execution

Death by Orajel

[12:17 PM] Ms. Rose:

As long as Mr. Oleo is still attracted to a hobbled fat chick who drools all over herself, then Orajel is my new drug of choice. Easier than paying $12k for new teeth. I may even stop drinking. (Nah, probably not.)

Ooooh! I wonder what happens when whiskey passes over an Orajel-soaked tooth socket. Hmmm. Looks like I'll be experimenting this weekend!

[12:36 PM] Mr. Silver:

(voiceover, B&W hospital footage) 

"This non-intuitive chemical reaction, dubbed 'The Bullet Train of Pain', was discovered the night of 9/11 by a Ms. Rose after doctors eased the rictus and lowered her heart rate long enough for her to speak ... 4 weeks after her experiment.  Her mistake?" 

(expert in doctor coat appears over footage) "She reported she forgot the Rose's Lime Juice."

[12:40 PM] Ms. Rose:

Hhhhhheeeeeyyyyyyyy ggggguuuuuyyyyyys! Orrrrrajjjjjellllll annnnd whissssssky issss awwwwwesssssommmme!

[12:40 PM] Mr. Brown:

Just eat cloves

All the time

[12:40 PM] Ms. Rose:

LOL, both.

[12:42 PM] Mr. Silver:

Slows time, eh?

After approximately 7.25 ounces, time stops.  If just 7.5 can be downed quickly enough, time starts going backwards.

[12:44 PM] Mr. Brown:

I have maple Jim Beam

[12:44 PM] Mr. Silver:

"Good on pancake flavored vodka"

Speaking of drying out...I've been drying out this week. 

Bah

[12:49 PM] Mr. Brown:

I have pumpkin ale every night

[12:49 PM] Ms. Rose:

This weekend (tonight at 5:31 pm) we are actually doing the whole carmel-vodka-apple-cider thing. To ring in fall, ya know.

[12:50 PM] Mr. Silver:

To ring in the spins and ringing and falling?

[12:50 PM] Mr. Brown:

I have at the most 6 beers in a night

Most nights its just two

Unless it's a drinking night then I drink 12 or more

[12:51 PM] Mr. Silver:

We will fall as autumn leaves...over furniture...shoes on the floor...nothing...

[12:51 PM] Ms. Rose:

There's so much sugar in both the vodka and the cider that you basically just wind up cleaning the entire house.

[12:51 PM] Mr. Silver:

Heh

[12:52 PM] Ms. Rose:

Why are you drying out this week, Mr. Silver? Is it working? I always thought that was a magical idea for fitness-heads.

[12:53 PM] Mr. Brown:

It helps nothing

I feel worse when I don't have at least one beer

[12:53 PM] Mr. Silver:

I was marveling at how fast a bottle was going down over how long and started fearing the worst.

When the last of the vodka ran out I resolved not to get any more for a while

[12:54 PM] Ms. Rose:

"The worst" being folks like myself, the actual alcoholics?

[12:54 PM] Mr. Silver:

I was coldly observant of how irritable that decision made me.

[12:55 PM] Mr. Brown:

Yes, I'm an alcoholic but I'm a functional one

[12:56 PM] Ms. Rose:

Mr. Brown, please remove your head from your own ass. You are nowhere near the definition of an addict. I'll bash my face on your truck just to prove it! LOL

[12:56 PM] Mr. Silver:

Trouble sleeping, was really fidgety and pacing the one night.

"Bored"

"Sleepy" at odd hours...like...8pm

Today I actually feel good

I sure didn't sleep well, but yeah...felt lighter.

[12:57 PM] Mr. Brown:

According to alcoholic definition, I am one

Which makes me wonder how they came up with their definition lol

Drink a glass of wine and a glass of milk go to sleep

[12:58 PM] Mr. Silver:

Barf

Having the split personality abilities helps I suppose.  It certainly wasn't the one who wanted to get a drink that suggested it and has been taking notes.

[1:05 PM] Ms. Rose:

"Abilities." Funny. Heh heh :)

[1:05 PM] Mr. Silver:

My addictive tendencies are firmly ensconced in The Depression Guy (points him out)

Good writer...not as smart as some.

He can be sent to his room without his snacks and drinks and computer binges.

Oh no...I actually consider it an ability.

As long as I had to go mad anyway, I might as well keep the skills and use them.

[1:10 PM] Ms. Rose:

So you've never been in any legal or otherwise outside-the-home trouble concerning your issue?

[1:18 PM] Mr. Silver:

What...loony bin refugee?

No...all disguised by college angst for the most part. 

I recovered by force of will and personality - on my own - after a year or so of the worst ever.  The shifts came and went before and after that for a long time though. 

But all the little separable selves are still lurking in there...strong ones anyway. 

I bounced my psychological control method off of a psychologist I made friends with years later. He adjudged it "brilliant".

So yeah...I'm probably drooling mad inside here, but I-Public keep a tight rein on the worst - they're not allowed to talk much.

Some of them are characters in my books.

Dialogues can be easy to write.  ;)

“I need a sociopathic killer and an overconfident priest for this next scene.  Ok, guys, here's the scenario...”

[1:34 PM] Ms. Rose:

*silently judges you from Ancient Alcoholic Perspective*

[1:37 PM] Mr. Silver:

Started before I could drink, thank you. :P

[1:47 PM] Ms. Rose:

Us AAs (Ancient Alcoholics) are pondering your use of "little" and "separable" to describe your "selves."

We'll get back to you just as soon as we finish this bottle...

[1:48 PM] Mr. Brown:

I have a rage-something lurking inside that I keep chained to a wall. Every so often I call on its power

I also have this Strange Mad Hatter character that giggles out every so often.

[2:02 PM] Mr. Silver:

Having multiple personalities, despite always having company at home in the apartment, is not actually comforting.

At my worst I'd cycle a couple weeks of deep depression and anger and paranoia...then one of the people shouting for attention would "win"

And I'd be that for another couple weeks until it all fell apart and the personality ran out of gas or failed it's goal.

Rinse...repeat...year or so...

I listened to a simulation of what it sounds like inside a schizophrenic's head.  "Eh...close...not very creative."

[2:03 PM] Mr. Brown:

I've always fought my Mr. Hyde

[2:10 PM] Ms. Rose:

I think your problem(s) are that you think of and treat these issues as "separate" personalities or moods or whatever. If only your tiny boy brains could just entertain them all at once. That's what female hormones do for us, I think. I don't really know because I'm whacked out on Orajel now. But that sounded really good! Didn't it?

[2:13 PM] Mr. Silver:

Well that was the problem...on the low swing I had to deal with "the crowd"

I don't want to deal with the crowd

Everyone has a crowd

They usually do their business quiet-like in their cubes.

These were piling into the office and yelling at me every waking moment.

So...over time...I kicked them out.

They're still out there though.

[2:15 PM] Mr. Brown:

I have that problem with my animal rage guy - always wants to play

[2:19 PM] Ms. Rose:

You should both definitely be hermits. Divorce your wives, etc. Crowds and "animal rage guy" are here whether you want them to be or not. It's not your fault.

[2:19 PM] Mr. Silver:

I just said the crowd is normal.

It's all the yelling sessions and arguments that aren't

Little ones, sure - it's how you make decisions and stuff.

[2:21 PM] Mr. Brown:

Yeah, I talk to people around me that are not there lol

Like my papa and such

They answer me, and I always get the job I'm doing done or find what I'm looking for.

[2:25 PM] Ms. Rose:

I say again. Boys are weird.

[2:25 PM] Mr. Brown:

LOL

Ever feel like you have a wolf trying to come out ?

[2:31 PM] Ms. Rose:

Out of my uterus, yes.

[2:42 PM] Mr. Silver:

Nice

My lycanthropy days are long long gone.

I turn into a crane, mostly. The bird, not the vehicle

[2:43 PM] Ms. Rose:

If it were the vehicle, I'd call you on word-usage.

Back to my original topic please!

Practical dosage.

So, when the Orajel box says "use up to 4 times daily" that means more like 8 times, right? For people with "extreme" pain...?

[1:54 PM] Mr. Brown:

Use only 4 times daily or suffer unimaginable toilet sounds later

[1:56 PM] Mr. Silver:

It means 'use a bottle up to 4 times daily'.

[1:56 PM] Ms. Rose:

"Use 4 entire bottles up to 'Wheeee, unicorns!' times daily." 

Got it.