h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Bad Hair Day - A5264552
Author: Galaxy Babe - U128652

Short but sweet - looking forward to comments.

Y'know, this might potentially make an excellent collaborative entry, if you're willing to go with that. Ben had a wunnerful entry on memories of kisses - something similar *could* be done here, I imagine.

Just a thought. I personally don't have bad hair days (but that's just because my hair's too short to vary much from day to day)

You could do a lot with this one, for example:

http://cbs5.com/watercooler/local_story_217214926.html

Right now it's much too short to meet the guideline "write articles of appropriate length"...but that's just one opinion.

Alopecia..When bad hair day is no joke...

http://www.thisislocallondon.com/display.var.619743.0.when_a_bad_hair_day_is_no_joke.php

Thanks.
Working on this...

I've started adding researcher quotes, I've not forgotten about this

Even though I can't open the link at work... Mmmm... Angelina Jolie...

I haven't had a bad hair day for about two years (ever since I started grown my hair) previous to that every day was a bad hair day on account of my having spiky messy hair (and it wasn't trendy spiky either, where each one is carefully crafted and sits only on the top of the head... this was proper Sid Vicious-style spiky).

A combination of wavy hair and humidity can lead to the ultimate bad hair day. We went to Bali for our honeymoon, where the humidity seldom drops below 85%. I'd begin the day with normal if slightly untidy hair and as time went on it would get bigger, and frizzier, and messier until I resembled a dandelion clock about to strike midnight. Even the humble scrunchie could not save me - putting my hair up resulted in my having something sticking out of the back of my head that looked a lot like a pom-pom.

This is the most compelling reason I have for not moving somewhere tropical...

How's the entry looking now?

It's quite a big entry now, and I've credited everyone whose quotes have been used, as co-author.

It's really worth reading through, I promise. I found some great quotes all through h2g2 & have listed every contributor as co-author.



You were right, Jodan, it's made a fantastic collaborate entry and Kerr Avon found a great site where she found out who coined the first "bad hair day" in print

If nobody minds, I'm going to pull this entry out by the roots and offer it to <./>thepost</.>

Curses! And there I was hoping to get my name on an Edited Entry with minimal effort.

Go ahead, GB, it's your baby after all.

Well I'll leave it if you want me to, I was just a little lonely here in this thread.

Seriously, it's up to you... but I see what you mean about the lonelyness

Yea...if a scout doesn't pick it, it'll never get edited.

I'll leave it in case one needs to make numbers up...

I think maybe the block of researcher quotes is a little too big - could you put them into categories perhaps?

I think this is great! But unfortunately I'm not a scout...

Can't really see anything that needs changing. And I totally agree with the person who said your hair always looks best just before you go to bed - why is that??!!!

Good luck on getting this one into the EG!

Lbclaire

Thanks LBC & AlexA, what kind of categories do you suggest?