You've seen them around your local mall or 7-11: adolescent girls and their moms with something stripey hanging from their heads sort of looking like hair but weirder and crimpier. I can't remember when I found out they were rooster feathers, but I remember that the day I went to a neighborhood birthday party and saw a five-year-old and her septegenarian grandmother sporting rooster-feather extensions, I knew this trend had hit it big, at least on my cul-de-sac.
You can buy a four-pack of natural or artifically hued feathers for about $12.99 and superglue them to your own hair, or you can go to a salon and pay $100 or whatever for them to put them in with little clippies. Either way, you'll end up with stripey crimpy things hanging from your head.
But listen. There are two problems with the rooster-feather hair extensions, besides any potential aesthetic ones.
1. Fly fishermen are getting pissed off because their daughters and their daughters' babysitters are using all their rooster feathers.
2. Roosters are running out of feathers.
This is a problem. I mean, on the one hand, you just can't thwart a teenage girl's right to follow trends blindly until the next one rolls along. On the other hand, I saw "A River Runs Through It," and fly-fishing looks great, especially when Brad Pitt circa "A River Runs Through It" is doing it. Also, we like eggs, and don't you need roosters for eggs?
Well, we at they want to kill us have spent a lot of time thinking about this situation and have come up with a pretty good solution: rooster-feather-hair-extension fly-fishing.
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But listen. There are two problems with the rooster-feather hair extensions, besides any potential aesthetic ones.
1. Fly fishermen are getting pissed off because their daughters and their daughters' babysitters are using all their rooster feathers.
2. Roosters are running out of feathers.
This is a problem. I mean, on the one hand, you just can't thwart a teenage girl's right to follow trends blindly until the next one rolls along. On the other hand, I saw "A River Runs Through It," and fly-fishing looks great, especially when Brad Pitt circa "A River Runs Through It" is doing it. Also, we like eggs, and don't you need roosters for eggs?
Well, we at they want to kill us have spent a lot of time thinking about this situation and have come up with a pretty good solution: rooster-feather-hair-extension fly-fishing.
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