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[Guest]

I think I remember Vitalis; I'm 48:

Was that the stuff that came in a big bottle that looked like a 5th of vodka, and hardened on your hair and made it real stiff?

And the commercial used the expression, like, "No more greasy kid stuff."

Or was greasy kid stuff the name of another product?

Maybe that VITALIS will work on my goop.

There was a product I remeber that had those properties...
Dipity-Doo.
My brothers had some and me being the youngest, wanted to be right there with them, so after they left for school, I got into my brother's dresser, kyped one of his dickies, (False turttle neck, just the neck portion) slipped it under a paisley shirt, which complimented my green fat chord pants and rat fink jacket, then proceded to gob on about half of a bottle of that stuff on my hair.... I was stylen!!!
I think the other one that you were talking about was called Score... My brothers had some of that too... It was like adding motor oil to your hair.

[IraRat]

I remember Dippity-Do, and that wasn't it. I also remember the DD commercials! Score, I don't remember.

This stuff came in a really big bottle, it looked clear like water, and lazy mothers used it on their their sloppy kids so they would always have neat hair.

Rock-hard, epoxy-like, brittle, carcinogenic hair... but NICE hair!

And Dean--I REMEMBER THAT WHOLE RAT FINK CRAZE! They sold a ton of stuff with those characters! There was even a Leave It To Beaver episode where Theodore was the only one to wear his Rat Fink shirt to school, the other kids chickened out of the agreement, and he got in bog trouble.

And I think that's where this expression started:

"If the other kids jumped off the Empire State Building, would YOU jump off too!?"

[Bigwoods]

I worked in MPLS. with the mother of now San Diego Chargers receiver Larry Fitzgerald. Larry Sr. was a sports reporter and friend of many Vikings. One Saturday afternoon, many years ago, my wife came to pick me up from work with my 3 year old daughter in a stroller. Vikings #59 Matt Blair came into the office. A huge man, he was wearing shorts and had legs like tree trunks. As it happened, he was standing in front of my daughter in the stoller and I saw her eyes pan from his feet to his head. Her eyes were huge and her mouth wide open she said "WOW, you are a big black dude!"

Not sure he could understand her, but he was laughing at her and I didn't get killed.

[gailkaitschuck]

I remember Dippity Doo. It was strange pink gel, slightly toxic, that girls used to glue their hair before they rolled them into large rollers, held in place with sharp pins that made sleeping impossible.

In the morning, with luck you were able to unroll the roller, leaving a curl that was unbendable and uncombable. Sometimes it looked like you had pink dandruff.

I believe Dippity Doo was a close relative to that stuff on The Blob (the Steve McQueen movie involving some space glob that wished to take over the world).

Gail

[bledsoe3]

Anybody hear from IraRat yet?