Coda

[brightncheerful]

An old priest got sick of all the people in his parish who kept confessing to adultery..

One Sunday, in the pulpit, he said "if I hear one more person confess to adultery I'll quit"

Well everyone liked him so they came up with a code word. Someone who had committed adultery would say they had "fallen".

This seemed to satisfy the old priest and things went well, until the priest died at a ripe old age.

About after a week after the new priest arrived, he became very concerned so he visited the mayor of the town.

The priest said "you have to do something about the pavements in town. When people come into the confessional they keep talking about having fallen."

The mayor said "there is nothing wrong with the pavements" then, realising that no one had told the new priest about the code word, the mayor laughed.

Before the mayor could explain, the priest shook an accusing finger at the mayor and said "I don't know what you're laughing about, your wife fell three times this week."

[stewamax]

Says much for the Victorians' dual standards of morality that they had fallen women but not fallen men