Monday, April 28, 2008
Highlights
I tried to highlight my hair the other day, and there's this little brush you use to sort of paint them on, and it occurred to me that I could use it to spell words across my head. And then I remembered that while my hair is slightly wavy, sometimes I try to blow-dry it straight (but can't get it as pointily so as the stylist did the first day, of course. Never in the history of the world has a woman's hair looked the way it looked the day she got it done) and sometimes, when it's rainy or misty, it gets ringlet-y. So if I chose words whose letters had certain shapes and calculated the, um, sine and cosine of the various waves my highlights could feasibly display one word when my hair was wavy and another when it was straight.
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One would have to be mighty careful if spelling words with highlights in one's hair...I would assume a mirror and some backwards writing would need to be involved. Of course, if you were going to restrict your word choices to ambigrams it becomes less important. Unless, of course, your intent is that the viewer should also have to view your hair in a mirror. Which gives a whole new perspective to the idea, so to speak.
I do believe that the ENTIRE BAG of Pirate's Booty (with AGED white cheddar) that I somehow just inhaled has affected my thinking.
That little "YES" banner is curious. Did you know they're called "violators" (and in this I liken them to "spoliers" on cars)?
A-HA! I did not know that. Violators, indeed. Interesting name. I believe they do violate my very sense of what I should and should not believe. Subliminal, and yet blatently obvious. Subliminal in it's obviousness.
czprob, n.: the formula by which one can determine if your friend's ginormous engagement ring is or is not a cubic zirconia without actually asking her and risking injury.
Looks like this: (ct size of ring ÷ years together as a couple) x (fiance's monthly salary x 2) +[trust fund balance] ÷ probability of fidelity (expressed as a decimal). If czprob ≥ 1, it's a diamond. If < 1, it's a CZ.
And ok, it took me so long to write out my mathematical formula, I got another verification too good to pass up:
shttax, n.: what people should be charged for not cleaning up after their dogs in public.
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