Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id JAA09486 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:07:23 GMT Message-ID: <A4400389479FD3118C9400508B0FF2300411A1@DELTA.newhouse.akzonobel.nl> From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Message From Sue Blackmore on her Hair Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:45:59 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Richard: I wish I had hair.
This reminds me of something that happened back when I was a lecturer at
Liverpool JMU. I was sloping off early on a quiet Friday afternoon, and
just as I was crossing the car park behind the Science building on my way to
Lime St Station, I heard a distant voice shouting, "Wiggy! Wiggy!". I
stopped for a moment and looked around, but there was nobody to be seen.
The car park was nearly empty of cars. I took another few steps and again
heard the voice: "Wiggy! Wiggy!". This time it occurred to me to look
upwards, and just as I did so I saw a head disappearing into the window of
one of the labs on the 5th or 6th floor. Surely not referring to me, I
thought, but there was nobody else within range. Needless to say, when I
got home I carefully examined my hair to see if it did indeed look like a
wig. The more I looked in the mirror, the more worried I became. Since
then I have tried numerous different hairstyles, but all seem to settle down
into a highly convincing toupee effect. I often wonder if all the students
(or even, horror, colleagues) always thought of me as 'the guy in the wig'.
The only solution seems to be to do a David Beckham (those of you who follow
football will probably remember a Scotland international manager of the
1980's who was also afflicted with 'wig-like hair syndrome', and who like me
was born in Barrhead - can it be genetic????).
Hair, you can keep it! Where's that razor????
Merry Christmas
Derek
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