THE BONE GUYS OCTOBER 2023 NEWSLETTER
THE BONE GUYS COME OUT AT NIGHT
Boooo… one guys!
Yes, even though our name is already synonymous with the kinds of things that rattle in the night, we had to throw on some extra spookiness for October.
The Bone Guys fright-festing our way into the fall with terrifying, but occasionally delightful news headlines and kooky crawly hilarity about teeth and gums, as well as all the latest updates from our friends and partners.
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THE MOLAR EXPRESS
—Maryland fisherman Brian Summerlin freaked out the internet after snagging a record 17-pound Sheepshead fish that possessed a mouthful of “human teeth.”
—Fighter Melanie Shah had her teeth knocked out competing in bare knuckle boxing in Salem, Virginia.
—A Ukrainian man broke two Guinness World Records for pulling the largest number of cars with his teeth and being the fastest to pull a taxi 30 meters with his teeth
—A look into one of Canada’s creepy abandoned dentists offices.
—Tom Hanks is mad that his AI-generated image was used in a dentist plan ad without his involvement.
—A new species of slimy fish or eel with a circular arrangement of sharp teeth was discovered in India.
—A British woman high on cocaine and drinking heavily used her teeth as a weapon in attacking a man, his daughter, and a police officer last March.
The Five Creepiest Types of Cinematic Teeth
As The Bone Guys have discussed before in great detail, horror villains often get their greatest scare factor from their teeth, whether it be the gargantuan choppers of a great white shark or the razor-sharp incisors of your average vampire.
In celebration of Halloween, we’ve rounded up five of the creepiest types of teeth you’re bound to see on the silver screen, as you scream in delight at the latest slasher flick or horror masterpiece.
Let’s get into it!
Teeth type: Gross rotten teeth
As Seen On: Sloth in The Goonies, Hell-Cat Maggie in Gangs of New York, a possessed Regan in The Exorcist, Freddie Kruger, the old, chin-biting woman in Drag Me To Hell, Hellraiser’s Chattering Cenobite
Why They Freak Us Out: We’ve all had run-ins with that friend whose breath is really, really bad. The thought of any one of these sets of grody, gross, slobbery teeth even approaching us makes us want to run for the nearest box of mint-waxed floss.
Teeth type: Sharp Fangs
As Seen On: Dracula, Jaws from Dr. No, the Orcs in Lord of the Rings, Christopher Walken’s Hessian in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Pennywise the Clown in It
Why They Freak Us Out: Just when you thought a murderous clown/seductive Transylvanian count couldn’t get any more threatening, they bare their needle-sharp incisors and crack their powerful jaws, revealing a secret weapon that is much more vicious than the regular ol’ human dentures you’re packing.
Teeth type: Big, crazy animal canines
As Seen On: Jaws, Jurassic Park’s T-Rex, Cujo, the fish Piranha, Lake Placid's giant croc, Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi
Why They Freak Us Out: After 200,000 years of living in the wild, our human brains have a natural ability to turn towards terror as it comes to dying in the mouth of a large ferocious animal. A good instinct for self-preservation, really, when one thinks about it.
Teeth type: Teeth. Where There Shouldn’t Be Teeth.
As Seen On: The teeth-covered Tooth Child in Channel Zero, the ballerina in Cabin in the Woods, Dawn O'Keefe and her private parts in Teeth
Why They Freak Us Out: There’s something jarring about misplaced anatomy, scrambling our natural ability to recognize faces. Or private parts.
Teeth type: Teeth from galaxies far, far away
As Seen On: Alien, Aliens, Predators 1-5, the eponymous organism in The Thing
Why They Freak Us Out: They’re essentially elite apex predators whose advanced evolution has equipped them with sleek killing machines. Right in the same hole you and I use to place Wacky Wafers, cheese, and Hostess Ding-Dongs.
HUMOR HAS IT....
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P.S...
“Sour Candy is almost as bad for your teeth as battery acid…
A report by Northwest Dentistry says sucking on sour candy can be nearly as bad for your teeth as consuming battery acid. Teeth start losing enamel at pH 4, and many sour candies have a pH of 3 or less. Battery acid has a pH of 1.
Several candies have a pH very close to that, including WarHeads Sour Spray (pH 1.6), Wonka Fun Dip Powder (1.8), and Pixy Stix Powder (1.9). Even original Skittles and Brach’s Gummi Bears have a pH of 2.5."