Speaking of babies - one just plopped down in front of me at the coffee shop

[Rabrrrrrr]

We'll see how this goes...

it's with mother and, I assume, grandmother, though whether paternal or maternal I can't say with any sense of authority.

It's a very cute youngish baby (maybe 6 months?), and mother entertains it now with a rattle thingy.

Apart from the somewhat annoyingly cute baby sounds mother makes, and that she's chewing gum in front of the baby, all is quiet and good.

Nowhere near as loud as the little clutch of 3 middle-aged women with Evangelical Hair catting away for the last twenty minutes, who finally just left.

[Left Is Write]

1. I don't know why I want to know - or even if I want to know - but what in the hell

is Evangelical Hair?

[AllegroRondo]

2. I'm guessing Tammy Faye?

BIG hair, with so much hair spray you dont dare light a match near it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. It's that homogenous, ugly fucking hairstyle that Evangelical Women

are required to wear.

I can spot it a mile away.

[Left Is Write]

5. Do you mean like Mary Kay hair?

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Yes, like that - it's usually short, bobbed in an ugly way, highlighted slightly

feathered perhaps.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Here are some examples:

They especially love platinum highlights. All part of the prosperity gospel bullshit they preach, I suppose.

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[Left Is Write]

16. How do you separate Evangelical Highlights from Non-Evangelical Highlights?

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. The vacant look in the eyes

[Left Is Write]

19. Okay, so then this conglomeration of highlights and lowlights would not be considered

Evangelical Hair, right?



Because, really, my hair does like to mind its own business and does not proselytize. Much.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Nope, that's perfectly fine!

One can tell by the eyes.

Plus, the hairstyle is just a little too wild for the Evangelicals. You clearly think independently.

[Left Is Write]

23. Okay, just checking.

I have so few avenues for expressing my wild side.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Jan Crouch.

[racaulk]

7. Now I know that has to be a WIG!!!

But real hair or no, it's an ugly hairstyle just the same!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Gee!

Ya think?

[Left Is Write]

13. See the Mary Kay photo upthread.

If that's not a wig, I'll skip naked down main street.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. She looks like Cousin It is trying to wrestle her to the ground, and she doesn't even know it.

[deadparrot]

11. See Michelle Duggar, evangelical mother of 17:

Characterized by copious amounts of AquaNet.

[Left Is Write]

12. I tend to think of Michelle Duggar as having "high school hair."

You know, the woman who wears the same style she did way back when.

I am still oddly fascinated yet creeped out by her mullet-with-a-curling-iron look.

[deadparrot]

14. She can't remember the nor birth order of her children,

but, boy, can she do some fugly hair.

[grace0418]

18. Well, high school is probably the last time she had time to style her hair, what with all

the sex and birthin' she's been having since then.

[Left Is Write]

20. No kidding.

The other quintessential "high school hair" do is the topknot ponytail and the bangs done in one giant curl with the curling iron.

[grace0418]

22. One giant curl that you DON'T brush out in any way after curling.

Now *that's* a nice look.

[Burma Jones]

10. Is that where they come from? My son's been asking........

[Midlodemocrat]

24. A baby in a coffee shop? That mother should be tasered.

If for nothing else, the gum chewing.

[billyskank]

25. Two friends at the festival last week were there with their three-month old baby

She was the cutest thing ever. The baby, I mean.

[Midlodemocrat]

26. My across the street neighbors have six month old

twins, boy and a girl. They are beyond adorable.

Obviously, they are fraternal, but holy cow, they look exactly alike, right down to the big blue eyes.

I miss that age. I loved having babies.