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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 809153, member: 20205&quot;]Roald Dahl was basing that on a popular type of sweet or &#039;candy&#039; in Britain during his childhood, and to a lesser extent today. &#039;Gob&#039; is British slang for &#039;mouth&#039;. A common phrase used for telling someone to shut up is &#039;shut your gob&#039; (although these days a coarse anglo-saxon word ending in &#039;ing&#039; is often used between the &#039;your&#039; and the &#039;gob&#039; when this phrase is now used).</p><p>&nbsp;You can&#039;t talk much when you are sucking one of these sweets, therefore its a &#039;gobstopper&#039;...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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