Hey Gibbo!!
I was going to ask you, too, what a "removalist" was.... I thought maybe it had to do with a guy who went around and pried the jars of Vegemite out of Aussies' hands when they died, or something!
I LIKE it.... I mean, that the removalists had few teeth.... and yeah, it went with the joke perfectly!
There was a good friend back home, who had company come and visit once from the big city. The visitor was a tall, urbane, rather handsome man, and when they went for a walk in the little village where I am from, they ran into one of the locals. I mean, LOCALS.
My friend was polite and introduced the visitor to the local yokel, and the guy stared at the stranger in awe and said:
"NICE TEETH!"
No kidding! My friend was so mortified, yet he was also laughing his butt off. It became one of our favorite Hometown Stories.