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Originally posted by Fazumzen Fastfist:
Jo mommy.

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I concur.

Also, this is a blatant test of my new sig. It's a kinder, gentler, Pooh-loving Toktuk. ph34r.

-Tok

[ 07-23-2001: Message edited by: Toktuk ]

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Originally posted by Fazumzen Fastfist:
Jo mommy.

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*Bonks Faz and throws an open 1L can of Ogre Green paint at Tok*

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Originally posted by The Last Strider:
A tooth with wings, a tutu, and a wand. Isn't it obvious.

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THANK YOU.

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Originally posted by Ruvyen Warblade:
*Bonks Faz and throws an open 1L can of Ogre Green paint at Tok*

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AH! You can't hurt me! I love Pooh now!

-Tok

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Originally posted by Ruvyen Warblade:
Just WHAT THE HELL a tooth fairy is?

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Kids put their teeth under a pillow (one that've fallen out), and a fairy comes and replaces it with money.

Conclusion: Your parents are tooth fairies

There was a time where people believed that there was a thing called "Sympathetic Magic". The short version is that if your enemy has some bit of you, something intimately related to you, they can ply that into a spell that could affect you. Young children, the most vulnerable of people with the most to lose, lose their teeth, which (at the time) seemed very similar to bone, and often had blood on them in the gum-side crevice. Bone and blood were powerful elements in sympathetic magic, so an enemy's child's tooth would be potent. So that's how a lot of people into medieval classic literature think the tooth fairy bit started. The tooth fairy, parents would tell children, has taken your tooth. And left you this token. All the while, the parents took it and disposed of it safely (burying it or what not).

Over the years it was kiddified like most fairy tales, and became little more than an excuse for a parent to give a child a buck a tooth as a rite of passage sort of thing.