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.