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a key role of olive oil in ancient times
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami 
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oiled men in Roman era grimy gritty soaking sweating in thermal waters of ancient Bath olive skin Roman minds thermal heat ancient baths scraping silent olive sweet |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL   now I might not want to cook with olive oil for a long, long time. Nice imagery  |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
LOL now I might not want to cook with olive oil for a long, long time. Nice imagery ====== ha ha.. yes, but of course, you don't have an ancient Roman mind. Olive oil was called only "sweet oil" until one century ago. Never called "olive oil". Why "sweet oil"? I don't know, but that it was the only vegetable oil in wide useage. Pleasing flavor. It did not turn racid as would animal fats in that era of not much refrigeration. The oil lasted well, remaining "sweet" as opposed to going off or rancid. -Bath: Bath, England. Site of the best preserved ancient Roman bath. -Thermal: the waters at Bath come from thermal springs. Natural heat. -Heat: body heat -Oiled men (women, too, but they were sequestered in their own bathing chambers). "Oiled" because there was no soap yet. Olive oil emulsifies body soil. Is good for the skin -Scraping silent: After a hot soak and rubbing down with oil oil the flesh was scraped with a dull knife. The bathers or their attendants did this work communally. I don't suppose there was much talk going on. At any rate, we today cannot hear their voices remarking about...what? Business? Home? Government intrigues and scandal? Extramarital affairs? Time has erased the recordings.. this scraping of oiled skin must be dead silent. The poem is more didactic than formal poetry. So too, are ancient sites of former ways of life. OH--- Olive oil was essential to then-modern Roman life. It was the oil in the lamps; the source of the only light after dark. It was the cleanser for skin. It was a staple food: drinkable, even; or just dip your bread into "sweet oil". No doubt olive oil lubricated society in many ways both literal and figurative. Imagine the dirty, grimy world it was then. Communal bathing was the most important social activity for those highly civilized ancients. Olive oil is good for us even today. There should be more poems about olive oil? Got one to hand over, anyone? I do. Ha, but it won't be serious, not the second time I write about the olive. oye! [This message has been edited by netsky (04-05-2005 06:44 AM).] |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, and Popeye loved Olive Oyl! Oyvay! You absolutely MUST write another oily piece, maybe this is the tip of an oil iceberg? I have seen some ancient Roman baths, understand about the scrapings. Ah, the benes of oil are endless! But then I am one who daily climbed olive trees as a child, and can vouch for the nasty side of raw olives. PHLLBT! or however one might write that sound. LOL. I don't like green olives, only the shiny pearly black ones. Not that anyone has asked, though.  |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
hah  Soo.. more olive. and you -don't like the green ones?--- I have a poem to counter -that- (grin) and because it's a true-junk poem I'll place it right here, instead of junking up the main list further. I little humor goes far in Critical Commentary- esp. considering how quiet this neglected board used to be. We lube seriousness with mutual squeezes. OK! I yam whut I yam. Kuhkuhkuhkuhkuh! ----- |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
-refrigerate after opening- Olive green you are my fruit. Oily essence of female taste I pluck you up by my strong grip and bite you hard I get your nut round that heart that hard inside sweet flesh surrounds the good in me Olive, olive I am yours. And you unjarred calming stomach me the man who admits much lick for you my salty olive never drab |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
olive me felt a giggle reading this one LOL, ok, so the reply is corny  |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
corn is oily pour some corn apply some heat then let us eat each other's fluff corny poem for olive girl olive porn corn is oily so is love so is trust slippery must; but we dare to pop a kernel. but don't trip into inferno -burma shave-!  [This message has been edited by netsky (04-05-2005 09:50 PM).] |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, corn porn? now that image rips the cobwebs offal the cob! OK, now, try to top that for udder silliness. Never mind, I don't have any moomoo jokes under raps... nor jazz or blues. Huh??? Pour another glass of wine and whine, then sashay back for some crit time. I DO have one or two comments to make... BTW, thanks for your replies to my 'submissions' in Open. I still don't like any version of the word 'submit' |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
corn porn ha ha My spirit will rise |
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