February 14, 2005

Hair Fairies nit-zapping.
  • Wow -- these are true entrepreneurs.
  • It's a good service to offer, but I would *haaaaate* to work there. I'd shave my head.
  • I always felt bad for that one kid who got pulled out of the classroom due to lice.... Though it was an easy way to get a date if the target was female... (after she returned). Somehow, being the only kid who will sit within 20 feet of a person makes it alot easier to get on their good side.
  • So, LA is mow a hotbed of nitpickers. Wot will they think of next?
  • As i understand it there is a real market for this. But then my kid just gets the flea dip every so often and that seems to do the trick.
  • Hear hear. The quidnunc parents used to dip me in vat full of fleas all the time and it ain't done me no wrong! save that I married a cockroach.
  • The adult division, Follicle Freakz, offers the same sevices for crabs. OK I made that up.
  • My moms used to shave one side of my head, set the other on fire and get 'em with the hammer when they ran out, but this seems like it just might work too!
  • My sisters and I had head lice for what seemed like years. I hated the hurtful little combs needed to remove the eggs, the killing of each individual lice by squashing its body between the cement floor of the patio and the killer's thumbnail, and the constant scratching of my scalp to a bloody pulp.
  • I never had head lice but those kids look so happy and enchanted that I feel like I missed out on something magical.
  • hmmm... nit picking as a new business. i think i'd prefer starting a dog poop scooping business. ew, i'm getting all itchy now...
  • I've had a fairy doing my hair for years
  • why is the kid in the drawing wearing a "lucky strikes" t-shirt?
  • PY, you make it sound so special!
  • Yeah, we were so special that we were kicked out of Supercuts. There are no prices listed for their services (just for their products). That's some pretty labor intensive work though, so I'd imagine it costs.
  • Back when I was 24 (ages ago) I got lice from a chick who got it from her daughter who got it in school (school-aged kids are bug-&-germ spreading machines), and I really over-reacted. First I used that RID shampoo till I got dermatitis on my scalp, which freaked me out because I couldn't tell what was itching and burning then and got afraid I had poison-resistant superlice, so I shaved my head and *that* was when I discovered the chemical irritation. One or the other would probably have done the trick, and now I think there was no need to use lice shampoo three days in a row. Now I'm balding anyway so I'd just shave my head first thing, then do my laundry and vacuum. Eh, typhus can be treated. The problem would be if my girlfriend got it: she's got thick hair to her waist.
  • monkeyfilter: the constant scratching of my scalp to a bloody pulp
  • Ode to Brother Roach Little polished rump of mud, your wings are useless as the old archangel's. Akk night the rain pelts down on your funny house. You are the garbage heap's midnight eye, all dark oil. You are the dirty jewel, the cursed black pearl hidden in the opalescent walls of morning. Slippery brother! You are the secret bead in the rosary of reviled things. -- Susan Kelly-Dewitt
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