Hair Flinging Females

A person complains to Ann Landers today about women who fling their

    hair -now to the front then to the back, now to the right and then to

    the left. In elevators this behavior can be quite annoying. But if you

    challenge it -even politely - you may get a DIRTY LOOK. " Tell me, Ann,

    is this suppose to be a sexual come-on or what ? "

        Ann replies : ..." I believe hair flinging began with a commercial

    for a shampoo ".

          The message ,of course, was that voluptuous looking hair would

    attract a desirable male and the woman would live happily ever after.

        Only  in TV commercials ! Hair flinging does seem to be a pantomime

    of hair washing. But there is another interpretation suggested by a

    memorable scene in the Rodgers & Hammerstein movie " South Pacific ":

        Nellie Forbush , frustrated in a love pursuit of Emile De Becque

    ( Rosanno Brazzi) , begins singing :" I'm gonna wash that man right

    outa my hair. I'm gonna wash that man right outa of my hair...And

    send him on his way !  "

         But does the hair flinger have to do it in an elevator ? All

    love affairs have their ups and downs !