I'm pretty sure this is from the Henry Rollins story, "That time Ian MacKaye got us fired from our summer job as dental hygienists."Workers were readying commercial space at the T.B. Converse Building, located on North Patterson Street in Downtown Valdosta, when they found an estimated 1,000 teeth buried in a second floor wall. [...]Greensboro and Carrolton, two Georgia cities, both have had buildings where teeth have been found in the walls, Hill said. She said those buildings were former dental offices.
"I'm not sure if it was a common practice between dentists at that time, but it's very strange that there were two other people that said, 'Hey, we've had that happen, too,'" she said.
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
My first thought was, "Er, either serial killers or dentists..." Possibly peanut M&Ms for the tooth faeries from Hellboy. Would still be fun to extract DNA from every tooth and determine the relative degrees of relationship, e.g. how many teeth came from the same individual (or their twin), how many from people in the same family, etc. Chart it all up with some nice colorful infographics and curate in a giant, cut-glass candy jar near the front door of the local museum...
"There were worse things than crucifixion. There were teeth..." --Stephen King
Cheers,
J.
That'd be real fun until DNA testing reveals they all came from the same individual.
And by "fun" you mean fodder for The Magnus Archives.
And they say you're hard to shop for.
jwz and Guillermo del Toro both
Old fashioned medicine cabinets used to have a slot to dispose of old razors. The spent razors just accumulated in the wall below the cabinet. “Infinite “ capacity.
And, as a follow-up:
I'm with Mark on this one; I'd rather have a jar of teeth than a hundred Itchy-and-Scratchyland Fun Bucks.
See now I want to search for "human teeth" on eBay but I'm afraid I might be unable to avoid clicking buy.