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That tooth fairy was the only thing I ever believed in!  When I was a kid, I actually put some teeth from a dead sheep under my pillow.

 

 

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That tooth fairy was the only thing I ever believed in!  When I was a kid, I actually put some teeth from a dead sheep under my pillow.

 

Did you wake up to find some nice grass there instead?  

 

 

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If CrimSafe security screens are crim safe, why aren't they used in goal cells?

 

Because when the goalie misbehaves, he's usually just given a red card.

 

 

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Because when the goalie misbehaves, he's usually just given a red card.

 

Convicted on the evidence of auto-correct!

 

Etymology of the two words.

 

jail (n.)

 

c. 1300 (c. 1200 in surnames) "a jail, prison; a birdcage." The form in j- is from Middle English jaile, from Old French jaiole "a cage; a prison," early versions of “jail” (iaiole and iayll) appeared in the 1300s.

 

goal (n)

 

comes from the Norman French gaiole or gaole, Early versions of “gaol” (like gayhol and gayhole) first showed up in English in the 1200s.

 

The two versions of the word were spelled all sorts of ways in Middle English, when our language had no letter “j”: gayhol, gayhole, gayll, gaylle, gaille, gayole, and so on. The “gaol” and “jail” spellings first showed up in the 1600s. Modern usage is for the word "jail", but it does persist in legal writings. It is said that newspapers promoted the use of "jail" simply becasue it took up less print space than "gaol"

 

For their protection from homophobic prisoners, male homosexuals and transvestites were sent to a separate gaol in NSW. I suppose that prison could be called a gayhole. ?

 

 

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Gayhole sounds about right for prisons. I'm reminded of the American advice about going to jail (gaol).

 

This is your a***hole, before you go to prison ...... o

 

This is your a***hole, after you've been to prison ...... O

 

 

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A woman comes home and finds her husband hanging from the ceiling with a noose around his neck He had a note pinned to his chest. She read the note and said "You spelled 'constant criticism' incorrectly.

 

 

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A woman comes home and finds her husband hanging from the ceiling with a noose around his neck He had a note pinned to his chest. She read the note and said "You spelled 'constant criticism' incorrectly.

 

Check Planey's topic "the beauty of marriage"... a picture tells a thousand words!

 

 

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Gravity is a force which tries to pull two objects toward each other. Two of the objects in the Universe with the strongest gravitational force are an expensive tie and a forkful of gravy.

 

 

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