Today's comic...

[spqrblues]

...will be posted tomorrow.

I spent today lying in a steaming hot tub of LUSH-brand Black Pearl bath salts. Remarkably good at holding angst at bay. And the only bath salts I know of that come with a fortune-cookie fortune in the middle.

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[kyleen66.livejournal.com]

You know, the rule on fortunue cookies is that you're supposed to end the fortune with... "in bed."

So when I read yours.... I laughed and laughed...

(and nope, I didn't make that up. It's a game we all play in Chinese restaurants. Heh.)

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I like that game and the one where you ask a question about your life or the future and the person whose cookie most appropriately answers their question is the winner. Probably of a slice of orange. Mine from last night's restaurant trip was something like "Cherish memories of the past, and you won't worry about endings" that made me feel like it was saying "You may keel over from old age in 2007, but at least in the rest of your life you got to... uhm... there must be something... somewhere..."

My LUSH fortune was THE HEALTHY SOUL IS IN THE HEALTHY BODY. Hmm.

The Black Pearl bath was nice and fragrant, but lacked the sheer smelly power and silky-skin emollients of LUSH's honey bath bomb combined with their honey/chocolate bubble-bath square. Alas, it's back to cheap bath salts again today!

[b2creative.livejournal.com]

I was just flipping idly through channels earlier. I came across two characters in a Chinese restaurant. The woman opened her fortune cookie, read it, then after a pause she said, "in bed."

Weird.

[la-colere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how it got translated in this house on New Year's Eve. (Resulting in needing the morning after pill four hours into the New Year. *G*)

[passiveangel.livejournal.com]

*squeals* You mentioned my favorite store! :-D I haven't tried Black Pearl yet... My favorite bath ballistic thingie is Big Blue. It really is just like having the Pacific ocean in your bathtub, only it's warmer and it smells lovely. And Karma bubble bar is the best! Okay, I'll stop now... :-P

Bath time is the Best time

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried either of those--only Black Pearl, the honey and something pink involving roses that I've forgotten the name of. You'd think I'd know the proper name of the honey one, considering I like it so much. I've only actually bought from them 3 or 4 times. If I had the income, I'd use something of theirs in every bath, and always have a supply of Honey I Washed the Kids soap!

A friend gave me a few bath-type things that claim to be made on ancient Roman formulas. I haven't tried them yet, because I weirdly hoard pretty smelly objects waiting for just the right moment to toss them into the tub (SPQR Blues comic number 200?).

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[passiveangel.livejournal.com]

Mmmm...Honey I washed The Kids... Although Flying Fox is as close to divinity as you can get for a shower gel. Yes, if I had the income I'd have a lovely little hoard of Lush bathstuffs too. But they make such great skin and haircare products that I use them every day.

Oooh! What do the Roman bathstuffs smell like??? *curious*

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[(Anonymous)]

"What do the Roman bathstuffs smell like?"
Fish-pickle sauce of course. You're a bunch of sybarites, you know. Out here in Texas, we have to soak in buffalo dung and are glad to get it. DRW

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[(Anonymous)]

Of course you realize the great advantage of buffalo dung over fish pickle sauce as a bath oil is that rendered bufffalo dung doesn't draw bears. How do you think the Romans got all those bears anyway? Fish pickle, the ultimate bear lure. DRW.

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[passiveangel.livejournal.com]

Fie, I say! Fie! All can have the wonders of Lush (http://www.lush.com). You just have to pay for shipping and wait a few weeks is all. ;-P

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[(Anonymous)]

Wait-wait, I've got a keen story idea. What if the Volcano is doing fine, just minding its own business until somebody in the fish-pickle business decides to commit ecological mayhem by dumping a bad shipment of sauce (how bad does it have to get to be considered inedible anyway?) into the caldera? The resulting volcanic indigestion leads to a small steam explosion, which cracks some critical rocks blocking the vent, resulting to an eruptive event that cascades into by mass mayhem, huge loss of life and property... all because Mus was too lazy to follow the EPA regulations on disposal of toxic waste? Great, huh? DRW.

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[passiveangel.livejournal.com]

Those ancient Romans have been known to do crazier. I'm not sure how factual this is as I heard it in 6th grade Social Studies, but I seem to recall something about using lead pipes for their plumbing and the upperclasses using lead goblets for their drinking...

Gaius, with the Lead Pipe, in the Tepidarium

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Whew, leave a post alone for an afternoon, and look what develops!

The Latin word for "lead" is plumbum. Hence, the word "plumbing." So, yes. You were probably better off getting up early every morning to draw your water from a well instead of having convenient indoor spigots, but the water might have been ferried to the well through lead pipes anyway.

Also, a few drops of belladonna in the eyes make them bright, and lead makes the best white for face powder.

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[meritahut.livejournal.com]

Also, I'm particularly looking forward to the bay laurel, goat's milk, and honey bath salts from Unguentia (http://www.unguentia.com/). Their site is only a single intro page at the moment. They don't list fish-pickle sauce in the ingredients, but you know it's there.

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[b2creative.livejournal.com]

Oooo ... they have one by me - I'll have to check it out.

Perhaps the honey one was Honey Bee? The Ma Bar looks good too - cocoa, orange and honey - whoot!

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[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I think it was Honey Bee. I'm generally not hugely into orange in my cosmetic smellies, but this hair oil I am currently massaging into my scalp has Mandarin peel, so we'll see how that goes.

[fallenkalina.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, LUSH. I used my last Black Pearl the other day. I got them from the store, and they weren't nearly as fresh as they should be.

And they discontinued my ginger bomb. Although, I could get paid in Avobaths and be happy.