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Public: Punishment: Humiliation
Static hairstylists   (+10, -1)  [vote for, against]
Works best if they own a motorbike or have to leave via a rotating door

Unexpectedly invite an ex-friend round one night for a meal. (Preferably a frizzy blond or someone with very long, but thin hair.)

During the usual after meal banter, ask them if they'd like a go on your Van de Graaf Generator* (they always say yes, those sort of people can't rest the temptation).

During the entertainment, and just when their hair's at its most peculiar, reveal a hidden can of hairspray and let them have it!

Then send them packing.

*If you don't have a Van de Graaf Generator, use a cat and an ebonite rod.

(I can't accept all of the blame. My nephew and niece thought this one up - I just added the malicious streak)
-- Dub, Apr 06 2006

Soldiers of Destruction http://www.artofthe...truction_photos.htm
Hairspray? Try mulberry juice and epoxy resin. [ConsulFlaminicus, Apr 08 2006]

Big Bad Hair http://www.baycityw...images/big_hair.jpg
[Dub, Apr 09 2006]

Argh http://www.phys.vir...n/Bitmaps/Hair1.jpg
[Dub, Apr 09 2006]

Eerk http://www.kfunigra...%20der%20Graaff.jpg
[Dub, Apr 09 2006]

Aw http://www.planet.n...-209.onlineBild.jpg
[Dub, Apr 09 2006]

Hair Raiser Hair_20Raiser
[DrCurry, Apr 09 2006]

As Hairstyling Aid Van_20de_20Graaf_20Haircutting_20Aid
[DrCurry, Apr 09 2006]

(???) Wall of Hair http://www.israelly.../phil%20spector.jpg
[thumbwax, Apr 10 2006]

I like it! Except for not finding anything malicious in it--it all seems like good fun to me.

Based on my time in a powder-paint booth, I'd say that the particles of the hairspray might pick up a charge and repel away from the hair. If you could put the opposite charge on the hairspray can, it might work better. Might, I say. Definitely a croissant.
-- baconbrain, Apr 06 2006


Thanks for the bun (from my nephew and niece).

Well they'd been musing on the bus over one of the other passenger's hair-do (We were on our way to the Science and Natural History Museums in London - so we had static on our minds).
-- Dub, Apr 06 2006


Science Museum? - Do you have any idea what happens when matter meets anti-matter?
-- Dub, Apr 08 2006


sp. Van de Graaf Generator

Great idea. Post some photos when you're done.
-- dbmag9, Apr 08 2006


sp. Ta. [Links]
-- Dub, Apr 09 2006


I thought we'd kinda done this one to death already - see links.
-- DrCurry, Apr 09 2006


thumb: you wandered into one of those fairy mounds where you don't come out untl 100 Internet years later?! Anyway, that link doesn't work so well for me.
-- DrCurry, Apr 10 2006


Link still works for me OK - just Google Images for the thankfully inimitable - Phil Spector - (who must make you surely not pine for hair) and you'll do fine. While I've been out and about for a spell, I've sent more than a few New Yawkers to your Curry and f-stop sites. If so challenged 50 years from now, I could draw many a baker's pic from memory, certainly yours, and when all is said and done, that, not buns or fishbones, is what counts.
-- thumbwax, Apr 10 2006


Very strange.
-- DrCurry, Apr 10 2006


Cheers DrC - As [dbmag9] pointed out I can't spell Van De Graff (I naughtly relied on Google's "web's most common spelling" method to check, rather than a physics book) - and then I didn't find anything when I searched HB - BTW - I can't access Wall Of Hair
-- Dub, Apr 10 2006



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