bad hair day

Donald M. Lance LanceDM at MISSOURI.EDU
Sun Jan 30 04:24:41 UTC 2000


RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 1/29/2000 8:07:29 PM, pulliam at IIT.EDU writes:
>
> << Parsing this as _bad-hair day_ isn't nearly so wickedly funny, is it?
>
> Or is this just me? >>
>
> My reaction precisely.

When bald guys say they're having a bad hair day (which I've heard), they're using dInIs's
parsing rather than Greg's.  And they had clear "bad-hair day" intonation.
DMLance



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