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There! I have gone and done it, informally committed myself in so many words in a reply to a comment. And you know all about me and my commitments, formal or informal. I stick by them, come hail or sunshine. So the good news is that you lucky people are going to be badgered every single day with a new post this August. Do take note though: Terms and Conditions Apply. After all I have to make allowances for things not in my control.
Here I especially point fingers at viruses and such nasty things who scarce pay attention to heartfelt entreaties. Please, not in August, I gotta blog all month, you know. But I am open to being attacked, for a few days mind you, in September or October. How about that? Maybe you could leave now and come back later? Not that it worked the last time I tried. Tchah! replied the viruses merrily streaming through my system, creating much havoc and sufficiently derailing it to make me crawl into bed and stay put there for the next two weeks. See what I mean? Hence T&C apply.
Having settled all that, let me turn my attention (and yours) to toothbrushes. If the question being asked at this point is ‘why?’ the answer is, it is because toothbrush is the daily prompt word today and when I saw it I thought, ‘why not?’
Nifty things toothbrushes, you have to agree. Cleans your teeth of unwanted food residues and keeps them sparkling, and hand-in-hand with toothpaste, keeps your mouth fresh. What a boon for everyone else concerned with us. Did you know, a version of the present bristle form of toothbrush was first used in the late 1400s in China? I didn’t, I just googled it now. The bristles were actually the stiff, coarse hairs taken from the back of a hog’s neck and attached to handles made of bone or bamboo, I read. Imagine, that.
The present day toothbrushes come in so many varieties, soft, medium and hard, inter-dental. The color, the handle shape, the bristle arrangements, they all differ. But…why am I boring you with things you already know? Instead let me lead you to something you did not know and which I have revealed here: The Truth About Toothbrushes. A modest attempt at humor, if I say so myself. Hope you enjoy it.
©Shail Mohan 2017
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Toothbrushes, I remember reading somewhere, are one of the biggest land polluters given that they are made of non recyclable plastic and nearly the entire population of the world, give or take, uses them routinely.
Yay to your commitment. May the virus stay off coast.
This reminds me, just the other day I was thinking humans should by now have found something to do away with toothbrushes altogether. How about some liquid you swish in your mouth and voila, your teeth are clean. No non-recyclable toothbrushes littering Earth, and no boring brushing to do every morning and night. 😉
Actually, I think we did. The neem and banyan sticks were much more ecofriendly and we did away with them for plastic brushes.
I remember the umikkari (powdered charcoal) we used as kids. Very eco friendly though bad for the teeth. But all that won’t do for lazy me. I need something quicker and easier. 😉
Chewing gum perhaps? Certainly not quicker, but easier? You need to spit it out though… 😉
Yeah 🙂
Aha! An interesting take on toothbrush and lovely read. I am quite fascinated by them and keep changing my colors every 45 days. It was the only month that I used mine for three months, quite a depart you see.
Toothbrushes do come in lovely shades 🙂 Thanks for dropping in, Vishal.
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Me sa considering jumping in too.
Yay!!!!
I used to love kid brushes which had cartoon figures on the top and came with a case to protect the bristles.
I was gifted a baby toothbrush in college by classmates for ‘the one with the best smile’ 😛 😀
How cute!
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