The New Adultery Code

In the pulpit one Sunday, an old parish priest who had gotten sick and tired of all the people in his parish, who kept confessing to adultery, said, "If I hear one more person confess to adultery again, I'll quit." Well, everyone liked this old amiable priest, so they came up with a code word. Someone who had committed adultery would just say they had, "fallen".

This seemed to satisfy the old priest and things went well, until the priest died at a ripe old age. A few weeks after the new priest arrived, he visited the Oba and seemed very concerned. The priest said, "My king, you have to do something about the sidewalks in this town. When people come into the confessional, they keep talking about haven fallen." The Oba just bust out laughing, realizing that no-one had told the new priest about the code word.

But before the Oba could explain, the priest said, "My king, I don't know what you're laughing about. Even your wife fell three times this week."