Little clippy weighted objects that attach to long braid that allow you to attack with your hair. Swish your head from side to side and the objects start orbiting your head at high speed. Lean forwards to deter attackers. Works with ponytails, too. And multi-braids.

Inspired by some video of a girl with pigtails swinging them around.
-- DesertFox, Mar 10 2005

Half-baked by [Dog Ed] Bolo_20Ponytail_20Fasteners
(though not for the same reason) [angel, Mar 10 2005]

Half-baked by Konami http://www.zxscreen...fu_2_screen3_64.gif
[Jinbish, Mar 10 2005]

would mainly harm the pigtailee, I fear.
-- po, Mar 10 2005


Why does this make me think of three inch hula hoops dispensed with Viagra to check degree of stiffness? The skilled can spin them without moving the hips.
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 10 2005


Ouch! "me eyes, me eyes!"
-- skinflaps, Mar 10 2005


Would lead to friend and colleagues repeatedly walking past you wearing plant pots on head, without trousers, with both thumbs up nose etc. just to see you do a double-take <thwack,THWACK>.
-- squeak, Mar 10 2005


[Farmer John] "Why does this make me think of three inch hula hoops dispensed with Viagra to check degree of stiffness?"

I think that is something we are all wondering. Why does it?
-- Basepair, Mar 10 2005


I can imagine the psychotic girl in the Crazy 88s from Kill Bill having something like this.
-- Machiavelli, Mar 10 2005


Half-baked to the max! One of the characters from an old 8-bit computer game** had "Iron Pigtails" as his special weapon. I haven't found any evidence of this as a real technique but the linky shows him in action.

**Yie Are Kung Fu 2 for those that are interested and the character was Yen Pie. I owned this for the Commodore 64. It was ace- Oh How I remember the days... <goes all starry-eyed>
-- Jinbish, Mar 10 2005


You'd totally whack yourself with this. Although my brother (who teaches Karate) told me about a whip-type weapon that is worn as a belt so that you can take it aboard airplanes...
-- ignorantimmigrant, Mar 11 2005


it could be some kind of wig that you remove to use as a weapon.
-- po, Mar 11 2005


Touché toupee?

[Basepair] I asked first.
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 11 2005



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