Much gnashing of teeth

Sabre-tooths are extinct, cat-like carnivores that are characterised by their large upper blade-like canine teeth. Sabre-toothed cats existed from the Eocene through to the Pleistocene Epoch (55.8 million to 11,700 years ago). The best known species is this one, the sabre-toothed tiger (unrelated to modern tigers) Smilodon fatalis which roamed North America and Europe from 23 to 2.6 million years ago.

This is really just an excuse to recount to you a Scottish tale as told by Norman Harper and Robbie Shepherd in their book Anither dash O'Doric:

The story comes from the files of Professor Donald Francis Tovey, of Edinburgh. In the 1930s, the professor told often of an old minister on the Banffshire coast who would thunder and roar at his flock that every one of them would be sure to end in an eternal pit of damnation, a bottomless pit, where every last one of them would spend for ever weeping, wailing and gnashing their teeth.

Then he would pause, look around his congregation, see that most were elderly people and add:

'And for those of you without teeth, teeth will be provided.'

That's the way to tell 'em!