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Post by scooter on Nov 3, 2014 16:36:38 GMT -5
******!!! YOU LIE!!!  |
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Post by bandito2 on Nov 6, 2014 0:53:54 GMT -5
There's only one way I can reply to that, scooter-- EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >'Kat Don't worry. It's all very macho. Oil wrestling (Turkish: yağlı güreş), also called grease wrestling, is the Turkish national sport. It is so called because the wrestlers douse themselves with olive oil. The term "güreş" is shared with other forms of wrestling practiced by Turkic-speakers across Europe and Central Asia, such as the Uzbek kurash, Tuvan khuresh and Tatar köräş. The wrestlers, known as pehlivan Persian: پهلوان meaning "hero" or "champion") wear a type of hand-stitched lederhosen called a kisbet (sometimes kispet), which is traditionally made of water buffalo hide, and most recently has been made of calfskin. Unlike Olympic wrestling, oil wrestling matches may be won by achieving an effective hold of the kisbet. Thus, the pehlivan aims to control his opponent by putting his arm through the latter's kisbet. To win by this move is called paça kazık. Originally, matches had no set duration and could go on for one or two days until one man was able to establish his superiority, but in 1975 the duration was capped at 40 minutes for the baspehlivan[clarification needed] and 30 minutes for the pehlivan category. If there is no winner, play continues for another 15 minutes—10 minutes for the pehlivan category, wherein scores are kept to determine the victor. The preparation H is for if you strain yourself and get a hemorrhoid. hahaha My sentiments concur with those of SylvreKat. That pic creeps me out. Macho you say? Not in my book. Of course I'm a westerner and just don't see the manliness in that sort of foreign activity thing but rather something else. Damn, but it's really difficult to be PC about that. In any event, all it would take is for one of them to grab the jewels of the other and squeeze the poor fella into submission.... That is if either or both are not castrato or evirato. They did have that sort of thing going on in the ancient near east (which includes Turkey BTW) long... long... ago. So, olive oil, pliers, a jack and preparation H? Must have been kin to Macgyver and that's conceivably how compression releases were developed for bikes..... since daddy took the T-Bird away and he was stuck getting around on a skanky old bike that was too heavy to push start and he was too much of a weakling to kick start it effectively. OK, with Mike Kiester and Bud Tugly out of the way.... any more puzzlers? |
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Post by scooter on Nov 6, 2014 5:43:45 GMT -5
Yes, wrestling in general can be a little creepy.  Congratulations on solving the puzzle, Bandito! |
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