Rapid Fire: Loose Tooth Extravaganza  | The Daily Campus

If we’re lucky in the Opinion section, we work through our beliefs completely and support them with great arguments. But sometimes, we don’t need a deeper reason to hold our convictions. Rapid Fire is for those tweet-length takes that can be explained in just a sentence or two — no more justification needed.

This past Sunday, Oct. 20, Opinion Editor Tomas Hinckley got two of his front teeth broken in the annual Pearlman Cup Flag Football Match vs. UCTV. In the spirit of the Opinion Section, this led to great debate at work later that day over the pros and cons of getting different parts of your mouth injured. So, for today’s Rapid Fire, the Opinion Section seeks to answer: If you had to get any of your teeth broken and couldn’t fix them, which teeth would they be and why?

Tomas Hinckley, Opinion Editor: After almost losing two of my current front teeth, I can safely say that is NOT the correct answer. Although the pictures of me posted to the many thousands of followers of DC followers on Instagram were dope, that is not a look for the long term. Wisdom teeth are a cop out answer too, not those ones either. The real optimal answer is to lose one tooth slightly on the side of your mouth so that you can whistle out of it, as someone who can’t whistle, I think that’d be cool.

Evelyn Pazan, Associate Opinion Editor: Considering that it is Halloween, I would like to lose my top canine teeth so that I can replace them with some crazy fake vampire fangs and call it a day.

Patrick Minnerly, Weekly Columnist: I don’t have wisdom teeth yet, so I can’t pick them. I’d probably choose one of the bottom teeth at the back of my mouth that are hard to see.

Dan Stark, Campus Correspondent: Wisdom teeth would be my choice. They’re already useless, so getting them knocked out would do me a favor.

Raegan Skelly, Contributor: I think for this you need to go big or go home. One of the most exciting parts of being a little kid was losing a tooth at elementary school and getting to wear it in a little necklace for the rest of the day (I hope other schools did this too or else this sounds very weird). We need to fully pay homage to the six-year-old charm and lose the two-front teeth. My little cousin Chloe is currently rocking this look, and it’s iconic.