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Discussion in 'Cheeniya's Senile Ramblings' started by Cheeniya, May 20, 2017.

  1. Novalis

    Novalis Gold IL'ite

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    @Cheeniya I am excited when I chance on humour which is bare and incisive about a mood. I found an internet epigram in that delightful humour about the stoics, cynics, Diogenes who appeal to both of us.

    How many stoics does it take to change a light bulb?
    None, they just start a 'Coping With Darkness' support group.​

    I wonder how internet jokes capture eminent sense in short gags.
     
  2. Cheeniya

    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    @Novalis
    You have now sent me on a witch hunt after the dental history. I could lay my hands on this:

    Egyptians are believed to have started using a paste to clean their teeth around 5000BC, before toothbrushes were invented. Ancient Greeks and Romans are known to have used toothpastes , and people in China and India first used toothpaste around 500BC.

    Ancient toothpastes were used to treat some of the same concerns that we have today – keeping teeth and gums clean, whitening teeth and freshening breath. The ingredients of ancient toothpastes were however very different and varied. Ingredients used included a powder of ox hooves' ashes and burnt eggshells, that was combined with pumice. The Greeks and Romans favored more abrasiveness and their toothpaste ingredients included crushed bones and oyster shells. The Romans added more flavoring to help with bad breath, as well as powdered charcoal and bark. The Chinese used a wide variety of substances in toothpastes over time that have included ginseng, herbal mints and salt.

    5000BC! Can you beat it? I know some guys even today who show great reluctance to wash their teeth. They believe that the food that they eat is fully capable of cleaning their teeth. I often wonder how someone like Ravana managed to wash his teeth in ten faces day and night. Did he have a few slaves to do it for him?
     
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  3. Cheeniya

    Cheeniya Super Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    @Novalis
    Very true. Here is one for you.

    Diogenes went to look for an honest lawyer.
    "How's it going?", someone asked.
    "Oh, not too bad", said Diogenes. "I still have my lantern."
     
  4. Amulet

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    Indian grocery stores in America sell banyan-tree and Neem-tree sticks for teeth cleaning.
    I found the following on "chew-sticks" in wikipedia; Mohammed and Guru Gobind Singh, both didn't want bad breath in their congregations.

    History[edit]
    Chew sticks are twigs or roots of certain plants that are chewed until one end is frayed. This end can be used to brush against the teeth,[1]while the other end can be used as a toothpick.[2] Most commonly plants are used that have a high content of tannins (astringent and antibacterial) or other compounds that benefit the health of gums and teeth.[3] The earliest chew sticks have been dated to Babylonia in 3500 BC[2] and an Egyptian tomb from 3000 BC;[1] they are mentioned in Chinese records dating from 1600 BC[2] and in the Tipitaka,[4] the Buddhist Canon, purported to be giving account of events which took place in the north-western India around the 5th century BC.

    In Africa, chew sticks are made from the tree Salvadora persica, also known as the "toothbrush tree".

    In Islam, this tree is traditionally used to create a chew stick called miswak, as frequently advocated for in the hadith (written traditions relating to the life of Muhammad).[5]

    Traditional Sikhs still use datun today as it is written in their scriptures:

    ਦਾਤਨ ਕਰੇ ਨਿਤ ਨੀਤ ਨਾ ਦੁਖ ਪਾਵੈ ਲਾਲ ਜੀ ॥ (੨੩)

    ("Dear/beloved, natural twig brush everyday and pains you shall never get. (23)")

    — Guru Gobind Singh, Tankhah Naama,[6] as written down by Bhai Nand Lal
     
  5. Thyagarajan

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    :hello:What was considered primitive is becoming modern as per media ad for tooth paste. A girl with an entourage rushes with placard enquiring a man already been with a grimace gum under seething pain. Seeing his plight She asks him only one question before vanishing.
    “Do you have salt in your tooth paste?
    Multinational promoting great grand parents’ products under different avatar.
    But brush or blush teeth is required on robust gum.
    Hope @Cheeniya Sir listening.
    God saves one by skin of his or her teeth?!?
     
  6. Novalis

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    Cheeniya, was Ravana born with that superhuman excess or had acquired that in a boon? Even if the multitude was acquired through a boon, you cannot fault him. These lone aspirants who flee to the dark jungles and icy mountains on penance are thoroughly dehydrated and emaciated having lost their foresight and wits by the time the Lord manifests to grant them a boon. Ravana, too giddy in such inhospitable climes, just blurted the foremost haunting that came to his mind: ten heads! with no heed to consequences.

    These hapless must be accompanied by some shrewd consultant or a pettifogging minister to interfere in that crucial negotiation with the Lord. But these fellas bid goodbye in haste and ride away alone with no clear thought on maximizing their encounter with the Lord. Who would ask for nine more heads when the upkeep and grooming of one head itself is troubling.

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    The outlandish sketch is not odd for an Indian envoy. If Indian slaves were busy attending to his twenty hands, then Ravana should have imported the Roman slave Caius Tiddlus as his consultant to forewarn him about his wishful heads. You know, those itsy-bitsy Romans are good at budget and tax.
     
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    I enjoyed your hazarding a guess for Ravana’s hygiene!
    Regards.
     
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    Thyagu, only white teeth is no longer prospected. Everyone is lured into super extra-white teeth by the marketing genius, teeth that when flashed blind the onlookers. Salt or sand grit, anything to polish the teeth for that larger-than-life canine glare.

    I am intrigued by ancient woes rediscovered by modern historians. The mummified remains of the Egyptian dead offer insights into the prevalence of tooth decay in those improvised times. Do you recall those horror-stricken mummy movies? A howling mummy with a trail of shriveled bandage staggers towards the terrified crowd .....trying to say something ...Errraah ...Aaaraah ...Errrh ...May be the mummy is just trying to communicate: Help! Help me! Tooth Ache!

    Cheeniya advocates that blush is exclusively for beard though I would love to hear from him whether any salted styling gel has ever been invented to groom that blushing beard.
     
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    Herbal is a rage across the planet. Patanjali is a worldwide consumer brand now.
    Their toothpaste tastes like a tree stick! My mom sneaked in a tube into my luggage this time. She swears, teeth will outlast even the iron implants in the body with Patanjali.

    (It smells and tastes like a bark, but it grew into me slowly :rolleyes:)

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    Never heard of that Patanjali. Naturally, doubts arose.
    What if the bark is from a wrong tree ?
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    Googled to check the label:
    "Akarkara and babul protect the gums; neem, timbaru, turmeric and cloves remove and offer protection from bacteria; pudhina and pipli refresh the gums; peelu and maju phal make gums stronger. Dental problems such as pyria, gingivitis, and bad odour begin to diminish when used every day.
    Some of the stuff is common to chutneys !!
     

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