Cusp is the grinding (cutting) edge of a molar or premolar.
Overbite is referred to as class 1.

Bingo! Daphne. That’s me.

A moustache or full beard then, but never a goatee. The only living person ever to have carried a goatee with success is Sylvester Stallone in his “Expendables” incarnation. But then, that’s Sly.

U overbite tigi Cusp?

Daphne above wrote “When he is prime minister, he said, he will ensure that there is separation between church and state, having failed to notice that we’ve long had that already.”

I am simply stating that when chapter 1 of the Constitution grants the power to the Roman Catholic Church to teach (and hence decide) what is wrong and what is right, one cannot state that there is a true separation of church and state.

Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is another debate.

[Daphne – It is compulsory for Maltese schools – state, independent and RC – to teach the Roman Catholic religion (unless, obviously, they are schools set up under another religion, like Islam). But attendance at RE classes is not compulsory. It is merely the default position. Parents are free to specify that their children need not attend those classes. I went to an RC boarding school. It was the only boarding-school for girls in Malta, so the sisters of all the non-Maltese boarders at St Edward’s and De La Salle were there. They were excused from mass and from RE classes – none of them were Catholic.]

At seven you became a Communist Young Pioneer (Holy Communion) and by around 14 you were confirmed a member of Komsomol – the young communist league. As a good Komsomolets you had a chance to join the priesthood – by becoming a KPSS secretary at the factory where you work, for instance, and then working your way up the very, very high, egalitarian ladder. The religion’s pyramid was topped by a pope, of course, who held the keys to Lenin’s Church. They called him Generalniy Segretar.

This religion was also taught in schools and universities in the form of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was their bible – The Soviet Bible. Classes in ‘Istoriya KaPeEssEss’ were highly regarded by the authorities – just like religion classes in Church schools.

You had the Soviet ‘parishes’, their ‘saints’, even blasphemous behaviour… one could go on. The Soviet Union was only nominally secular. In truth, although it had banned traditional religions, it installed a non-secular belief system.

And yes, they DID have a god. His name was Vladimir Lenin and he performed industrial and social miracles, as did his disciple Saint Stalin. And although Lenin was not born of a virgin, his mother was a venerated Soviet saint.

He once told me, (I promise you, he did) that as he has such a young face he was once advised a goatie would give him the mature look. I think all it does is make him look like a real prat.

He’d look even fatter without the goatee.

Dental surgeons refer to faqmi as Class 3.