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    Posted 8 years ago

    SpiritBear
    (813 items)

    I'm a moderator on a chat-site. One of the people on there I have "muted" several times and have even kicked out (after repeated warnings) for "trolling" (not the fishing type) and mimicking my name/impersonating me.

    Anyway, said member I often talk to is a Texan whose family is known for premature balding. So I told him I'd find him a hair-product bottle to help keep his hair (I was being sarcastic on the last part, but he loved it.)

    He didn't believe that I'd actually look for one. So a week later, here's what I got and showed him-- much to his disbelief:

    VEG. For water-waving and invigorating lifeless hair. Patent applied for by C. Nestle Co., inventors of permanent waving (of the hair) in 1905-- a 2-hour process-- and still around in the 1920s.

    I couldn't find anything on VEG, their vegetable compound. It's a tooled bottle (top finished off by hand,) so it's probably before 1920 (and after 1905 as it talks about C. Nestle Co.'s permanent waving invention.)

    I decided to open it. It looked to delicious too pass up opening (just kidding on the last part.)
    It smelled nothing like what I expected.
    In fact.... it smelled pleasant, of a light perfumed scent.
    I then promptly resealed it and sealed it further with rubber cement.
    I guess it was scented to be more appealing to put in one's hair.

    Later I shook it up. It's now the colour of mushy banana.

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    Comments

    1. AmatoorPikr, 8 years ago
      Reminds me of: Vita-Meata-Vega-Min,...ha, ha, ha, ha.........!!!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZK2-Tfc84
    2. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      It actually got me to laugh a little. LOL. Thank you.
    3. SEAN68 SEAN68, 8 years ago
      LOL!!!! This is awesome!!!
    4. antiquerose antiquerose, 8 years ago
      lol.............That is what I thought of with Lucille Ball. here it is:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZK2-Tfc84
    5. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      LOL. Glad everyone is enjoying it.

      So many responses so quickly, too!

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