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[sabotabby]

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EDIT: Read this first and then this. (Hat tip: zingerella.) Also, this is good. (Hat tip: Making Light.)

Comments

[fannishnonsense]

Well, I guess if you were in hairdressing school...

Oh I give up. There's no way for that sign to be anything other than stupid.

[sabotabby]

And yet...the store seemed to have more than one employee.

More than one person thought that this sign was a good idea.

The mind boggles.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more! :D

[sabotabby]

Hair is important.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

It's full of grades.

[sabotabby]

I think my hair fails right now.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

I was a pretty erratic and inconsistent student. It must have been the mousse.

[sabotabby]

I had a shaved head through most of university. This explains a lot.

[lemur-man.livejournal.com]

No hair = not graded or symbol of 'assignment not completed as requested'?

[king-felix.livejournal.com]

I'm so used to the non sequitur in advertising that it actually took me a minute to figure out what was wrong with this ad.

[sabotabby]

Even as far as non sequiturs go, this is weird.

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with it is that they just up and spelled out the logical fallacy instead of masking it with visual and rhetorical tricks. It would be like if those iPod billboards said, "Remember: when you want to dance like a black, you need earbud headphones."

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I sorta snorted with laughter when I read this.

[ironed_orchid]

I'll remember this when I'm next grading papers. Maybe I could just get the students to submit photos instead of essays.

[sabotabby]

You then have to post them in an LJ poll so that we can evaluate collectively.

[ironed_orchid]

Deal.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Why stop there? You could have them compete in the beauty contest. The girls getting 1st, 2nd, and 3rd all get A's.

[ironed_orchid]

Why just the girls? I've had some very pretty boys in my classes. Surely they deserved As.

[montreality.livejournal.com]

Would you happen to know what hair care product I can buy to make my freaking lab project work? I'd like to graduate in June.

[sabotabby]

I recommend Ice. That's what made my hair go traffic-light red.

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

The great thing about camera phones (or phone cameras) is never missing out on capturing even the smallest amusements of daily life, not for those cheesy Kodak pictures with happy families and picnics.

[sabotabby]

That's why I carry my digital everywhere (I don't have a cell).

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

Perhaps sub-par hair care products cause brain damage?

[sabotabby]

I hope not. I've been using crap.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

This may have something to do with "brainwashing"? (snicker)

Of course, let's not forget the Wal-Mart in East York, Penn., whose "Back To School" sale a few years ago included shotgun shells. A full variety was offered, from small game loads to skeet rounds, at $29.80 for "a large box." A store spokesman said the same "Back To School" price placard was used for all sale items throughout the store (but still....).

[sabotabby]

Hahaha. At least it wasn't in Littleton. That'd be tasteless.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Jesus Fucking Christ! What IS it with you all!!??

The hair care sign is cute, I'll admit, but why the fuck isn't everyone talking about those awesome statutes!!??

They.are.in-credible!

Then again, nobody commented on my Tom Otterness post ages ago either. I guess people don't appreciate amazing statuary.

[sabotabby]

Thank you for noticing the statues. (One reason why no one may be talking about it is that I added it as an edit after.) I don't think most of them are all that "strange," but most are pretty awesome, and I'm not generally one for appreciating sculpture.

Bit of a dial-up killer, though. Does anyone still have dial-up?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Speaking of awesome installations, guerrilla artist Banksy hits Disney.

[sabotabby]

I should just quit with the pretense and propose to him already.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Hands off, I saw him first. lol.

[ironed_orchid]

Oh, that's fantastic.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I've been looking at additional statues people have posted in the comments thread. (Jeez, some people are stodgy troglodytes.) Have you seen the Cat Mask Statue? Here it is again without a human. I confess a certain fondness for the cartoony works. This is a "Monument to Happiness" in Russia.

[sabotabby]

I didn't read the comments; the page itself almost killed my browser. I do love the cat one. The dog one I find bizarrely depressing.

[(Anonymous)]

The dog one I find bizarrely depressing.

Either it's ironic or it's a happily sated wolf zoning on lamb-tryptophan.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

That was me.

[lovableatheist.livejournal.com]

I've got a picture of myself next to the statue of the old woman in Bruxelles. It's near the post office where I bought a stamp.

The first one is my favourite though. I love that he's beating all of those kids off of him.

[sabotabby]

It's just evil. And so it makes me laugh.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Salamander loves playing with tape. I'm not sure what she'd do with the bacon, though.

I wish there were better sculpture around here. So much of it is what I see as neo-fascist - idealized skinny white people looking athletic, instead of sturdy, muscular white people. There were even people all in a twitter in a town not far from here about the installation of nude sculptures in a public place. Twits.

[sabotabby]

I was thinking of trying the experiment out with Marinetti. But we have a bacon-free house. Maybe veggie bacon...

I'm happy to say that our cows got in. I love those cows. But most sculpture in Toronto sucks.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Where did you see any of this on making light? All I see are posts about Bush.

[sabotabby]

It's on Teresa's Particles, top left. Although I like the Bush posts too.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Belatedly topical Onion article.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Also this.

[sabotabby]

A lemur is its own reason.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I need to move to whatever university whose students are the advertisement's targets. I need GREAT HAIR CARE PRODUCTS, and LOTS of it.

[sabotabby]

Ryerson. I'm not sure that this particular store stocks great hair care products, though. It might have been a generalized statement.