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Taking the sham out of shampoo
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this is something that never struck me before it was brought
to my attention by my mate Stewart up in Cairns - but have
you noticed how tough it is for blokes to get good shampoo?
There's a bazillion and four for the girls and they cover
every type of hair/follicle/condition that has ever been dreamt
up by advertising tossers.
You can just picture the mobile-phone bedecked, overpaid
drongos sitting around in their offices thinking up new ways
to sell damn-awful stinky shampoos to the masses.
Anyway, despite the fact I'm getting on I do like to look
and smell good for the lassies at the home and with a couple
of dabs of Brut 33 on I went for a whiff-test down at the
local chemist.
Could I find any shampoos that didn't smell of - as Stewie
says: "bloody strawberries or flowers"? No way.
Not one.
I asked the chemist if there was a shampoo that had a nice
smell, but not an over-the-top pongy one.
Try this, he said, and handed me a bottle of Stan's Super
Shampoo for Blokes. Righto, said I, and tottered off home
for a quick wash. Unfortunately, Stan's product turned me
into an electrified echidna and there were strands sticking
out everywhere. It took matron three hours with the blow drier
to fix it up.
Next, I tried Burt's Beaut Bouffant - daggy name, but it
didn't smell too bad. Problem was that Burt's little effort
had my mane of hair coming out at the roots. That got washed
out pretty damn quick, let me tell you!
So, it was then out with the old bottle of beer and a quick
rinse with that to seemed to work okay. Now don't worry, I
only used NZ beer, so it wasn't a waste of the good Aussie
amber fluid. Anyway, while my hair had a beautiful sheen it
did tend to attract the wrong sorts and I had to fight off
a couple of desperate winos.
Well, I guess I'll have to try a good old block of soap,
unless anyone out there has got a better idea.
If there is something that has really got up your nose,
let Grumpy Old Coot know at grumpy@webwombat.com
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