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Post by valenciajim on Feb 16, 2018 18:18:35 GMT -8
When the March issue of MR was delivered my wife picked it up from the mailbox and she immediately noticed the item on the cover that said, ""Build this depot and steal your wife's hairspray to weather it p.24"
As she handed the magazine to me, my wife warned me to stay away from her hairspray. (I actually have purchased my own cans of hairspray for scenery, etc.) I was making some trees the other evening and used MY hairspray to attach the leaf material. My wife has the sense of smell of a bloodhound and she came up to my train room to be sure I wasn't stealing her hairspray. We ended up having a good laugh about it. Thankfully I was using some hairspray I purchased at CVS and not hers! Thanks to MR for providing a good laugh that we both enjoyed!
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Post by oldmuley on Feb 17, 2018 17:49:45 GMT -8
I read that as well and it struck me as humor of the 1950's. I've styled my hair for over 30 years using my hairspray, and I'm darn proud to admit it too.
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Post by fr8kar on Feb 17, 2018 23:07:06 GMT -8
"I like the smell of my hair treatment. The pleasing odor is half the point!"
I don't use hair spray for my scenery items. I use 3M Spray Adhesive instead. It's better able to survive the climate here in Texas. Having said that, I don't want to spread the word too far. The women here are liable to steal my spray adhesive for their hair.
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Feb 18, 2018 17:44:15 GMT -8
I've styled my hair for over 30 years using my hairspray, and I'm darn proud to admit it too. At least you HAVE hair!
Signed......
Baldylocks, chrome dome, etc, etc......Folic Challenged in Illinois
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Feb 18, 2018 17:50:32 GMT -8
"I like the smell of my hair treatment. The pleasing odor is half the point!" I don't use hair spray for my scenery items. I use 3M Spray Adhesive instead. It's better able to survive the climate here in Texas. Having said that, I don't want to spread the word too far. The women here are liable to steal my spray adhesive for their hair. I used some ultra cheap hair spray to make trees about twenty years ago. Said trees moved from the Chicago area to the Green Bay, Wisconsin area in 2006. In Wisconsin, I forgot about box o' trees and they resided in my former service station. I stopped heating the station in 08, because of cost and those trees roasted in the summer and froze in the winter. It was cold enough in the winter for water to freeze solid in the station. Before I moved back to the not great state of Illinois, I found my box of trees. They survived completely the extreme temperature swings in the station. I was impressed. So maybe depending upon the spray some holds better than others? |
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Post by riogrande on Feb 19, 2018 6:34:12 GMT -8
My wife'd dad in England calls himself Baldilocks and the three hare's.
I've been using the 3M Super 77 like Ryan. Not sure if the wife would like the smell of it however.
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Post by riogrande on Feb 19, 2018 6:39:13 GMT -8
There is a saying, they don't make things like they used to. Perhaps it applies to hairspray too. I remember using it back in the 1970's and the stuff seemed pretty sticky.
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Post by roadkill on Feb 19, 2018 7:17:18 GMT -8
I read that as well and it struck me as humor of the 1950's. I've styled my hair for over 30 years using my hairspray, and I'm darn proud to admit it too. I use gravity to style mine... |
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Post by fr8kar on Feb 19, 2018 14:50:43 GMT -8
Texas women and big hair are the stuff of legend here in the south. I don't know what they use, but it seems to work well. Unless you're in Houston, then bad hair days sometimes prevail.
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Post by mrsocal on Feb 27, 2018 17:52:23 GMT -8
Jim, I have been thinking about thread/post and chewing on it very carefully. No sweet, let me explain.
You started this thread on the 16th, dumb luck if we can call it that.... My 27th anniversary to the women of my life. When I read the post here in my office I cried out laughing to almost that point where you needed to get up and go change. The misses came in to see what had me going and when she read it all she smiled and simply said, "YEP!" It wasn't the hair spray though. My wife loves to do needle point on baby blankets. She has a pair of glasses that well to me can see a thread laying on a thread. Well you can by now see where this is going and no, I have not gotten my own pair yet.
"God bless our wife's!"
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Post by valenciajim on Mar 7, 2018 20:16:37 GMT -8
"God bless our wife's!"
Amen to that!
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Post by calzephyr on Mar 8, 2018 15:46:08 GMT -8
When the March issue of MR was delivered my wife picked it up from the mailbox and she immediately noticed the item on the cover that said, ""Build this depot and steal your wife's hairspray to weather it p.24" As she handed the magazine to me, my wife warned me to stay away from her hairspray. (I actually have purchased my own cans of hairspray for scenery, etc.) I was making some trees the other evening and used MY hairspray to attach the leaf material. My wife has the sense of smell of a bloodhound and she came up to my train room to be sure I wasn't stealing her hairspray. We ended up having a good laugh about it. Thankfully I was using some hairspray I purchased at CVS and not hers! Thanks to MR for providing a good laugh that we both enjoyed! Funny, wait until she asked what the price is for the latest brass model you just received!!! How about the cost of those four new Gevo's with sound?  Larry |
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Post by valenciajim on Mar 8, 2018 18:00:36 GMT -8
When the March issue of MR was delivered my wife picked it up from the mailbox and she immediately noticed the item on the cover that said, ""Build this depot and steal your wife's hairspray to weather it p.24" As she handed the magazine to me, my wife warned me to stay away from her hairspray. (I actually have purchased my own cans of hairspray for scenery, etc.) I was making some trees the other evening and used MY hairspray to attach the leaf material. My wife has the sense of smell of a bloodhound and she came up to my train room to be sure I wasn't stealing her hairspray. We ended up having a good laugh about it. Thankfully I was using some hairspray I purchased at CVS and not hers! Thanks to MR for providing a good laugh that we both enjoyed! Funny, wait until she asked what the price is for the latest brass model you just received!!! How about the cost of those four new Gevo's with sound? Larry Ha! Ha! Very good comment! I have significantly curtailed my purchasing since retirement. I used to have stuff delivered at the office. At my retirement party, the staff roasted me about all the packages I received. That let the cat out of the bag. The last brass item I purchased was about eight years ago. I have about 150 locomotives and over a thousand items of rolling stock. I will likely be thinning my collection when I get some time. Most of what I buy now are building kits and scratch building supplies. The only thing I have on backorder right now are four Athearn tunnel motors. |
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