A foolish thought from the pub

[simont]

Everybody knows what wisdom teeth are. But under the influence of booze it occurred to me to take the concept in an unusual direction.

Strength teeth must surely be the molars; the sheer leverage available to them allows them to effortlessly crush things that the front teeth would have a hard time getting into.

Dexterity teeth are the canines: they grip on to things to allow them to be manipulated.

Charisma teeth, as ptc24 pointed out, are the incisors right at the front, which are conveniently placed to (if properly cleaned and polished) catch the light photogenically when you smile.

What I'm not so sure about is where intelligence teeth and constitution teeth come in. Premolars are still to be assigned, but I can't make a good case for them being either of those…

Comments

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, was it me? It doesn't sound like the sort of comment that I make - my natural habit (I think, people can contradict me if I come across differently) is to keep my teeth out of sight - to prefer closed-mouth smiles to open-mouth ones.

Possibly there's the case for canines - carnivore teeth - for being Strength, and the rather more herbivorous molars would be Constitution.

I'm a bit short on premolars, and I reckon my Con is lower than my Int, so premolars are Con somehow?

Wikipedia: "In primitive mammals there are four premolars per quadrant. The most mesial two have been lost in Catarrhines (Old World monkeys and apes, including humans). Paleontologists refer to human premolars as Pm3 and Pm4.[7]" - which suggests premolars may be anti-Int.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Perhaps all teeth are Constitution teeth - the more you retain, the higher your Con (she says, with four crowns and no wisdom teeth giving her Con 32-4-4=24)

[songster.livejournal.com]

Conversely, maybe crowns are Constitution teeth - titanium being that much tougher than the real thing.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Ah, maybe if you lose teeth that shows you have a low Constitution, but when you get them crowned your mouth turns into a constitutional monarchy.

(Edited for userpic - they call me Kingmaker!)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I think the back teeth to which one is fed up are Con teeth. Or possibly the teeth in which one is long.

[writinghawk.livejournal.com]

Then there are the eye teeth, which one would exchange for a particularly desirable return.

[writinghawk.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what this six-way typology is (which seems to make me an atypical reader) but it does occur to me that if you need more teeth to assign, you have so far done nothing with milk teeth.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

They're from Dungeons and Dragons - each character has a Strength stat, a Dexterity stat, etc.

Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich

[gerald_duck]

The front incisors are surely comeliness teeth rather than charisma teeth, which might be those required for good elocution?

[megamole.livejournal.com]

CON teeth are the ones that break easily - back teeth for me.