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Glad you all enjoyed that! This week’s winner is Texas Book Lover. Come back next week for more! Giveaways, that is. Not Turkish oil wrestlers. Though if I had more of those, I’d share them with you, I swear.
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So today’s post is all Christine d’Abo’s fault, because she sent me this link to a Buzzfeed article titled “Turkish Oil Wrestling Is a Totally Legit Sport.”
Because it is filled with pictures like this:
And this:
And this.
You’re welcome.
(All photos on the Buzzfeed post came via this Tumblr, should you need a bigger hit.)
Oh! Were we supposed to be doing a giveaway? Okay — free associate today. Wrestlers, olive oil, Turkey, slippery things . . . just run with it in the comments, and I’ll give away a $10 gift certificate to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or iTunes to one randomly selected commenter tomorrow morning.
Damn! That’s hot!
hmmm….what an interesting way to spend this snowy day!
Yum!
Guilt free dressing—I’m putting Turkish Oil in my daily diet!
TGIF! Thanks for the awesome Friday smile! What’s not to love about wrestlers, muscles, olive oil, turkey, and other slippery things? I’m not normally into sports, but I might just have to re-evaluate my stand on this sport.
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Screw writing. How soon can I start my new gig as a Turkish Oil Wrestling referee/apres-oil towel girl? #agrownwomanwithtweenproblems
Well, women have wet T-shirt contests, mud wrestling, and lingerie football, so why shouldn’t men have something similar we can ogle at?
(Also, I love how there’s absolutely no stigma associated with probably-mostly-straight men engaging in an activity/sport that would undoubtedly be dubbed homoerotic in the US… I mean, just look at the tone of the Buzzfeed article. Europe, I love you and your forward-thinking social attitudes and am glad I was born in you. Even if I betrayed you to study in the US)
BTW, do they have professional referees? And how soon can I start my referee training? I think it’d be a most excellent use of my science doctorate.
Also, do they use good olive oil? That stuff can be expensive, but the cheap stuff has quite a pungent odour!
Gives new meaning to the term “Slippery when wet”. I have to agree, I wonder who oils them up?
Maybe we should start a less violent version for us. Olive oil has got to be a great moisturizer!
OMGoodness. Is it hot in here?? Or did I just have a hot flash?? I want a front row seat!!
Oh Ruthie,
I saw this early in the week. Anyways, so many ways to go wrong with the thoughts. I’m sure we can find an oil that can taste better. I better stop with that thought.
Thanks so much! You absolutely just made my day!
This is MY kind of March Madness. In fact, let’s make it an Olympic sport: this beats ribbon dancing EVERY day of the week.
I have to be honest and say that Turkey is one of my least fav countries but I have to admit that the pictures are HOT!
If this doesn’t increase the sale of oil olive…I don’t know what will. Am I the only on who keeps playing with the rubbing gif on buzzfeed?
You are most certainly not the only one. If you watch the movie, that clip is in there, only he sinks his hand EVEN DEEPER, and it’s EVEN BETTER.
OMG! Check out that video like picture at the end of the post too! I heard they are no longer going to include wrestling in the Olympics – maybe they could replace it with this version?!
Five minutes ago I self-identified as a woman who was so not into greasy, sweaty men. Now I know better. Also, I kind of want to high-five the photographer.
Agreed on both counts.
Oh I needed this. Sick with bronchitis so this is a welcome distraction
Bow chicka wow wow …. Holy Hotness !!! O_o
My eyes are very happy at the moment
Thank you for sharing with us!!!
I had to send this to my single friend going through a dry spell. Good. God. Thank you.
Have you been to one of these events? Are you going to write about it in one of your books?
Hahahhaaa. I was JUST telling a friend, today, my story of our hot Turkish waiter when we were on a cruise. I’ve determined I must have been about 13. It was my mother’s birthday while on board, and my dad and I had arranged for a special dessert to be delivered. Murat came out with the fancy dessert and proceeded to give my mother a rather grand kiss.
I might have muttered something like, man, I wish it were my birthday, and low and behold beautiful soccer player Turkish Murat, waiter of extraordinary manly pulchritude, turned and gave pitiful lil me a chaste kiss on the cheek.
What my parents didn’t see from their angle at the table was that chaste kiss was HALF WAY on my lips. Oh. I thought for sure he’d find me on the beach the next port and rub suntan oil all over me and finish what he started. Hahahahaaa.
It was true love. And might have been written about grandly in a journal entry and/or a postcard to my envious BFF back home.
Oh, to be 13.
Terrifying!
I don’t know why they do it. I can only be grateful.
ooohhh… pretty
Highlight of my week. I wasn’t kidding earlier! You just can’t go wrong with it…. now to get this happening in America, too!! Have a great weekend!!
My goodness, Turkey’s been at the top of my travel list for years, but if I could bump it even higher, I would. I had no idea…..must talk the hubs into a trip sooner rather than later.
Okay, did you know that if you play with the rubbable gif on your iPad, you are basically rubbing your finger up and down their bodies? I’m ashamed to admit that I had to try it several times just to make sure I had the correct rubbing motion. (Practice makes perfect. What? Don’t judge me).
I just want to know if they need someone to rub the oil in, I’ll be more then happy to volunteer
Oh, my! Do these guys need help getting oiled up? And then cleaned up afterwards? I volunteer!