I know service has been a bit spotty around here lately, so I’m trying to make it up with this little three-day series, presented without interruption for your viewing pleasure. Thinking of a title for today’s post, it occurred to me that no variety of establishment goes for awful puns in a name more than hair salons, at least around these parts. It’s always something like Mane Event, A Cut Above or Hair It Is. You get the idea. When I was a boy, my mother worked as a hairdresser in a shop named Beauty Unlimited. It certainly was a disingenuous name, but at least it wasn’t a lame attempt at a pun. Me, I got my hair cut at Ozzie’s Barber Shop.
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Yeah, mine, too. I really liked her as a redhead, but now she’s a dirty blonde again. Her hair color, I mean.
Mark in TTown, if you ask for a short haircut and he cuts it too long, you can always cut off more. Time and again, when I’ve gone to a new barber and carefully explained that I like it on the long side and just want it neatened up, the a**h*** makes me look like an Army lifer. This happened again last April, and my hair is just now starting to look close to decent. About May, I met a new friend who is a barber, and I haven’t been able to patronize my friend’s business yet.
Argh, dozed off again. Good night all. Zzzzzz
Name I saw on a family hair-cutting establishment: Shear Delight.
Corporate America’s idea of a snappy name for a hair salon chain: Supercuts. Or Cost Cutters.
Well, no one ever said that Corporate America had much of a sense of humor.
I’m starting to get the dreaded Dilbert pointy haired boss look. As I get balder on top, I’m fighting that thick ring of hair look, where the remaining thick starts on the side next to the bald top always looks funny unless you just buzz it all the way
I used to go to “Shear Delight” near Dallas, but it’s closed now.
I dreamed about my pulchritudinous, curvaceous and exiguously clothed hair stylist last night.
Must be time for a haircut. š
GR6, Warren Buffet advised that you never ask a barber if you need a haircut. ????
Sorry, forgot my new emjoi no workie with WordPress. š
Good morning, all. LOvely day, here. Run went fine, back in The Office Is My Life. For a few hours, anyway. Reread today’s vintage A&J and decided I don’t get the second strip. Is Arlo riffing on Lugosi’s patent-leather hair of the original Dracula or is he excited by seeing the nape of Janis’ neck? Inquiring minds…
Lurker present warning…..beep beep beep……
Saw this and thought of you villagers: http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/#.U9_9oPldWSo
Re: hair, have been Symply avoiding the young lady, (who if I lived near GR6, I would think she’d know us both!) with some odd results…Fargone long hair!
Munchkin, I took it as a combination of both.
It was the third of the cartoon trilogy that got my attention, reminding me of the long-ago day of elaborate hairstyles when women went to the beauty salon every week to get their ‘dos done and then did their upmost to preserve them until their next weekly visit. It was in that context that a lady friend told me that the definition of a nymphomaniac was a woman who would go to bed with a man just after she’d had her hair done.
Hey, SF. Symply fargone good to hear from you. I take it, then, that you too have a pulchritudinous, curvaceous and exiguously clothed hair stylist. Must be a feminine sub-type. š
And on another front, “Stone Soup” today got demoted from the “Webcomics” folder to the “Annoying Webcomics” folder, which consist of comics that have made me say, “Oh, shut up!” out loud at least twice. Promoted to her place: “That Is Priceless”
Used Book Stores (a dying breed, I know) also go for the puns. My favorite, from Farmington, Maine is “Twice Sold Tales.” Brilliant! Almost as good as JJ’s puns . . .
Ha! My second-favorite email Subject Line found in my Spam Bucket: Perchaser Medicamentk Onlinex. Well, I guess that Russian “Wiagra” won’t sell itself.
Be advised, Munchkin, by following TIP regularly you will be exposing yourself to portraits of a certain number of chubby, untanned, long-haired females who are 99-100% naked. (I did the math.) I certainly don’t mind exposing myself to such (wait, did that come out wrong?), but I just wanted to give you a heads-up. š
Ghost: I am a student of pictorial art. I have already noted the peculiar weakness of Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo artists for dumpy females in inadequate clothing. I am immune, as I go to the local Wal-Mart at least once a week and see worse.
When I was in high school my mom would take me to her hair stylist, a lady who had her shop in a room in her basement-one sink and two dryers. Once I was in college I vowed never to cut my hair again (the occasional trim for neatness, but that’s all) and Mom’s friend retired, so I have not been to a stylist since.
On Arlo’s comment in the first panel, when Husband has been to his stylist (the same shop Bryan and Indiana Sam go) and the people at work go “you’ve had a hair cut” his answer is “no, I’ve had a LOT of them cut!”
Munchkin, I myself prefer to visit the local PetcoĀ© store as often as possible.
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Weigh-in day at Weight Watchersā¢…
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I know, I know…but I belong to Weight Watchers; I go to the meetings; and I’ve seen some members who take off almost that much before they step on the scale.
I watch my own weight. If I don’t, The Boss Of My Life gets cranky and Rule #1 around The Office Is My Life is not to get her cranky. I was 104# this morning, so all is well
^Ā°^Ā°^Ā°^Ā°^Ā°^Ā°^ has memories of two young stylists that did his hair in the early to mid seventies. They called their shop “The Top Off.”
Was that the name of their shop or the dress code there? š
Jackie you are probably familiar with this quote I just ran across, but in case you are not…
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
–William Arthur Ward
I guess Jackie is busy with her boaty business. I miss her…:(