Kryponite and garlic--(Why the hair-salon name "Krytonnite"?)

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Here's a guess as to the origin of the hair-salon name "Kryptonnite."  Kryptonnite is the only substance in the universe that can make Superman lose all his strength.  I don't remember if it knocks him out or merely renders him totally weak. Meanwhile, the 2 n's in "Kryptonnite" permit us to divide the word into "Krypton" plus "nite" (alternate spelling of "night").
 
 So the hair-salon name humorously implies that the women who emerge from a hair-styling session there will be so feministically powerful that they can make even Superman go weak in the knees. They are therefore  sort of promised a Krypton night, i.e., an evening out in which they will can have a devastating effect on whichever men they may be interacting with.
 
Gerald Cohen
P.S. Btw, Superman (as a Superbaby) arrived on earth in a spaceship sent by his parents from the planet Krypton shortly before it blew up. 

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>At 1/2/2010 10:13 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>There's a hair salon about a half mile from my house whose name is
>>"Kryptonnite".  I have no idea why (or what's with the two n's), but
>>I haven't seen Superman around the neighborhood, so I guess it works.
>

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