Code Word
There was a priest who heard too many confessions of adultery, that he threatened that if one more person was to say the word “Adultery,” he would quit his job as a priest. The citizens used the word FALLEN as a replacement for the word “adultery.”
Ten years later, the priest died. A new priest arrived in the town, unaware of the code word. After many weeks of hearing confessions of people falling, the priest went to the mayor. He told the mayor that some repair work should be done on the town’s streets because many of the citizens are falling.
The Mayor started to laugh hysterically at the innocent priest. Then the Priest said, “You shouldn’t be laughing, your wife has fallen 3 times this week!”