We have video of a hair stylist trying for a world record by using 10 scissors to cut a woman’s hair. How did that conversation go?

“Morning, Miss Todd. Mind if I use 10 sharp scissors to slash into your hair like an industrial shredder?”

“That’s fine, Andre. Keep those blades going as fast as you can. Don’t worry about scratching up my face, that’s what stitches are for.”

I like to think she went from there to her dentist: “Miss Todd, I’m trying to set a world record for getting the most Novocaine into a jaw in one minute. Yeah, the secret is, I use an amnio needle! Will that be a problem for you?

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A bat-like old barber named Brown
Styled hair as he swung upside-down
One day he cried, “Whizzers!
“I dropped my sharp scissors!
“They stuck in my customer’s crown!”

The caption tells us this guy styled hair while hanging upside-down to get into the Book of Records in Ukraine. Cripes. I just hope to God that book doesn’t offer similar enticements for dentists and proctologists…

Hairdresser Rustam Danilchuk works with a client while hanging upside down in Kiev, April 18, 2008. He made Ukraine’s Book of Records for cutting hair in an unusual position. REUTERS/Vladimir Sindeyev

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Blog guy, me and some other women are thinking about turning to crime to pick up some extra summer vacation money, but we don’t know what to wear. Is anybody addressing this niche market?

You bet! With the current economic woes, more and more ladies are opting for crime. The fashion houses are gearing up for it, as we’ve seen in recent designer events.

If you’re just talking about routine convenience store robberies, I’d go with something basic in the form of a chic paper bag like the one here. Simple, but classic.

If you’re going for something more daring, like train robbery, that’s different. Look at this ensemble from the recent Fashion Week in Tokyo. It’s everything you need but a horse and gun!

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A model wears a paper bag before presenting a hairdo as she walks on a runway at the “Hair Coloring Splash” event in Tokyo March 11, 2008.

A model displays a creation from “h.NAOTO” collection by Japanese designer Naoto Hirooka at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo March 14, 2008.

REUTERS photos by Kiyoshi Ota

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Blog Guy, I’ve been watching that new HBO series, “John Adams.” You know, the one where that wine snob guy from another movie plays our second president. In one episode, the colonial women put on a fashion show for the men, and they wear sexy outfits and play a disco version of “Yankee Doodle” and there are dancing mimes and stuff. Did that really happen?

Look, it’s possible the makers of this series about our freedoms took some liberties, so to speak. Like when John Adams hands the Declaration of Independence to John Hancock and says, “Put your John Hancock there.” And after dinner, when Ben Franklin passes around his homemade candies and says, “Have a Franklin mint.”

Let’s just say if you are put off by the accuracy of this show, you should definitely avoid the next HBO series, about our third president, called “The Jeffersons.”

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A model displays a creation by Ukrainian designer Natasha Glazkova during fashion week in Kiev March 17, 2008. REUTERS/ Gleb Garanich

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Some day, when I’m awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight.

You’re lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight…

“The Way You Look Tonight”
by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields

A model displays a creation from “h.NAOTO” collection by Japanese designer Naoto Hirooka at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo March 14, 2008. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota

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Blog Guy, you seem to know a lot about the language. Recently I heard the expression “about as jolly as a Portuguese model,” and I was wondering what it means and where it came from.

A very good question. I’ve been combing through our photos from Lisbon Fashion Week, and I’m starting to figure it out.

Clearly, the expression you heard is pure sarcasm, as it appears the models there don’t even hit the runway until steam is coming out their ears and laser beams are shooting from their eyes. I’m fairly certain it has to do with the fact that they’d rather be modeling in Brazil.

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REUTERS photos by Hugo Correia

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Near the top of my list of folks not to lend my iPod to is a guy who holds the record for the longest tufts of hair growing from his ears. I’ve not seen the Guinness entry, but it may be next to the one for the biggest bucket of phlegm.

Anyway, he complains that society has been “apathetic,” and says things would be better if authorities had commended the feat. “Dear Sir, you are hereby awarded the Nobel Prize for Ear-Hair…”

Still, his family is proud, and his son tells a story about going with dad to get into college. Where? Oh, I suppose Tufts University. Susan Flory reports

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Memo to fashion show staff: I’m sorry, but times are hard. We need to cut costs any way we can.

We’re hiring a raccoon who studied as a make-up artist. Now, don’t be so negative! It’s only make-up, how hard can it be? Plus, when she’s not working, she can wash food in the cafeteria. We’re also getting a monkey to do hair. He only knows one style, but we can live with that.

If this works we’ll save a fortune, and I have other good ideas, as well. Two words for you to think about: haute couture and chimpanzees!

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Models present creations for Monique Lhuillier’s 2008/2009 Fall/Winter collection during New York Fashion Week February 5, 2008. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

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Memo to fashion show staff:

I should have been more specific, I guess. I did say my vision for this creation required a model with color in her face and a flower in her teeth, but I meant fiery cheeks and a perfect red rose clenched in her inviting lips.

I did NOT want you to hire a model currently suffering from jaundice, and jam a freaking daisy in her mouth!

I am just so VERY grateful this communication problem was discovered before tomorrow’s show, where I requested a model with smoldering eyes and flaming hair…

A model presents a creation by Italian design house Gattinoni during a Rome Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2008 show January 27, 2008. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

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Memo to fashion show employees: We have received a police tip that an escaped prisoner may try to infiltrate our show in Milan this week. 

The man is described as “wild-eyed, with unkempt hair and a disturbed look of intense anger.”  The authorities say he also believes he was a Confederate colonel  during the Civil War, and may dress accordingly.

It is very difficult to believe that someone like this could make it onto our runway, but please do be alert to the danger, and keep in mind the horrible lapse at Paris Fashion Week last summer:  Dude! Is there ANYTHING you wouldn’t wear?

A model displays a creation as part of Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2008/09 men’s collections during Milan Fashion Week January 14, 2008. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

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