$23,723 Teeth

[moshquerade]

They really don't look too much different from what today's partial dentures look except this one is fabricated from gold.

Sold: Winston Churchill's 'Teeth That Saved the World'



Yesterday a top set of dentures worn during WW2 by Winston Churchill that were specially crafted to keep his well known lisp sold at auction for £15,200 ($23,723). Churchill nominated his dentist, Wilfred Fish, for a knighthood.

http://gawker.com/5600389/sold-winston-churchills-teeth-that-saved-the-world

 

[JM Aggie08]

So many awesome insults and quips have passed through those teeth.

 

[oddyager]

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

 

[destrekor]

Wait, they were crafted in such a way that allows Churchill to maintain a lisp? So, he liked his lisp?
I never even knew he had a lisp.

 

[moshquerade]

Wait, they were crafted in such a way that allows Churchill to maintain a lisp? So, he liked his lisp?
I never even knew he had a lisp.

'He pronounced “s” as “sh”.'
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/he-stuttered

And by the sounds of it his lisp would've disappeared had he had a lingual frenectomy. (He was tongue tied)

 

[techs]

Winston Churchill quotes:

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.