Don't mess with the do.

July 11, 2001 7:50 AM

Don't mess with the do. OK, so you have a hair product and you get NFL quarterback Brian Griese to promote it. That's like hiring a lawyer named Freida Convict.
posted by lheiskell (18 comments total)

Dippity-Bop?
posted by dong_resin at 7:57 AM on July 11, 2001

"don't want no FOP, I'm a Dapper Dan man" (been using 10W30, as the 40 weight interferes with my healthy shine)
posted by clavdivs at 8:30 AM on July 11, 2001

I've always been curious as to what hair gel is. I was a big consumer of the stuff back in the early 90s. So I asked Jeeves, but he came up rather clueless.

Google got things going. Check this out: homemade hair gel. A recipe. What's in it? Gelatin and water. That's it. But if you look at a commercial product's contents, it has a myriad chemicals. What for? I wonder.
posted by hijinx at 8:30 AM on July 11, 2001

To make it smell nice, and make it keep longer than gelatin and water would, and to give it an attractive hue, and probably most importantly, to make the gelatin not melt in hot weather or light rain. Ewww.
posted by jennyb at 8:39 AM on July 11, 2001

I'm intrigued by the way Brian Griese is looking at me. It's sort of tough, yet sort of empathizing. It's like he's saying, "Hey, you. Yeah, you. I'm going to throw you the football and I'm going to miss by a mile. Anyway, buy this gel!"
posted by Skot at 8:43 AM on July 11, 2001

"Gee, your hair smells like Lime Jell-O!"
posted by hijinx at 8:45 AM on July 11, 2001

So I asked Jeeves, but he came up rather clueless.

isn't that pretty much the story of poor jeeves's life?
posted by chrisege at 8:53 AM on July 11, 2001

Hair gel is so passe...what about pomades, styling putty, texturizing cream, molding wax, shine enhancers...I could go on you know.

You don't want to be a dippity-dork you know. ;)

(And yes, I have most of the above in my bathroom. Including the hair gel.)
posted by melissa at 8:56 AM on July 11, 2001

> Hair gel is so passe...what about pomades, styling putty,
> texturizing cream, molding wax, shine enhancers...I
> could go on you know.

What's wrong with plain old epoxy?
posted by jfuller at 9:04 AM on July 11, 2001

The Bukkake joke writes itself, here.
posted by dong_resin at 9:34 AM on July 11, 2001

dong_resin has a
new obsession which is this
unknown bukkake thing
posted by Dreama at 10:33 AM on July 11, 2001

Goggle it.
Carefully.
posted by dong_resin at 10:42 AM on July 11, 2001

Er, I obviously meant to google it.
posted by dong_resin at 10:48 AM on July 11, 2001

"Gee, your hair smells like Lime Jell-O!"

I had a girlfriend once who, while in high school, was on the synchronized swim team. They would all pull their hair back into tight buns for competitions, and they would use gelatin to hold it in place - unflavored gelatin.

Well, it seems that one rookie couldn't make it to the pre-meet get-together where they all made gelatin and did each other's hair, so she told them she would do it herself at home. Only, she didn't know it was supposed to be unflavored gelatin.

End result? Green pool as the lime Jell-o dissipated in the water. Eww...
posted by starvingartist at 12:23 PM on July 11, 2001

Er, I obviously meant to google it.

From what I've heard about bukkake, goggle was probably the right word.

Ahhh, anyway, what were we talking about?
posted by turaho at 2:30 PM on July 11, 2001

I have no idea what this link is about.
I also have no idea what "bukkake" is either...
posted by salmacis at 12:45 AM on July 12, 2001

Let us just say now
that bukkake ain't nothin
but human gravy

uhhh, i think.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:10 AM on July 12, 2001

I'm so very glad that I forgot to turn off Net Nanny before I engaged in that search. So very, very glad.
posted by Dreama at 10:12 AM on July 12, 2001