October 4th, 2007
not on trees
What does the tooth fairy get out of it?
There must be some sort of economy behind the whole transaction otherwise she wouldn’t be able to afford to leave money… teeth must be worth something…
…but what?
What does the tooth fairy get out of it?
There must be some sort of economy behind the whole transaction otherwise she wouldn’t be able to afford to leave money… teeth must be worth something…
…but what?
Sean on 
Maddie on
Maybe there’s a secret underground subculture of teeth enthusiasts out there. The Tooth Fairy collects teeth to sell to the highest bidder!
When I was little, the story went that she collected teeth because she didn’t have any of her own.
I like when you rhyme.
When I was in high school many years ago, I used to do all kinds of stupid things. One of the stupid things I used to do was to open soda bottles with my teeth. My mother told me not to do it; she said that I’d hurt myself… this is starting to sound like an episode of “For The Hermits”.
Anyhow, one day I did hurt myself. I fractured a tooth. The dentist told me to stop using my mouth as a multipurpose tool. I pledged then to live a life of virtue, and never again opened bottles with my mouth.
Yesterday at work I was eating a cookie when I felt something strange. I touched my tooth with my finger, and the entire side of it fell off! It turns out that the minor fracture I got in high school had been steadily growing over the past decade and a half.
So, to all the high school students out there, don’t do stupid things with your teeth. It will come back to haunt you.
I can puncture a soda can with my teeth then drink the contents. If I drank alcohol this would be an awesome party trick.
Perhaps it is like norse mythology, with the boat made of toenails?
Terry Pratchett does a good take on the tooth fairy.
Teeth aren’t ivory, oh wooly mammothed
one. They are enamel, hopefully lead-free,
which is used in beadmaking, effetre glass,
cloisonning and porcelain. The tooth fairy
makes a pretty mint off your teeth!
The TRUE story behind the tooth fairy (and also the easter bunny)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=120
Mr. Bivins? Of XKCD?
I like to rhyme… that’s pretty scary though, the idea of a fairy without any teeth.
Joseph, having lost one of my (front) teeth whilst at school I can relate to that. The specific tool I was using my mouth for at the time however, was ‘punch stop’. I still have it though, screwed into my jaw.
GJB, alcohol or not, that’s still pretty cool.
Y’know there’s a rumour that Terry Pratchett based Ankh-Morpork on where I live… Lancaster and Morecambe.
As for referring to teeth as ‘ivory’, it’s common slang around these parts for teeth, especially false ones. though Seraphine, you get geek points (I’m going to start a league table) for correctly identifying them as enamel.
Deadlytorque, that’s one of the best explanations I’ve heard yet
I’m sorry to disillusion you but I think it was your mum who took your teeth and I’ll bet she still has them in a little snuff box somewhere in her jewellery box.