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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Tails To Tell

This story is influenced by a pool party I attended with friends yesterday. We played the game, Gestures, after we got out of the pool. One of the words to charade was pigtails.

I asked: "what are pigtails? Oh, I've been saying pic-tails for years."

And here is one of my many comedy stand-up stories for the road some day:

I get ponytail.
They look like a pony's tail.

I don't get pigtails?
They don't look like a pig's tail.
And a pig don't have 2 tails.

I get pictails.
You get to pick your own tails.

The audience heckler
:
"A lot of people referred to BRAIDED ponytails as pigtails because of
the thinness (like the thinness of a pig's tail)."

I continued with my story:
What about the people who just have thin hair and not a lot of it, like me. All those years I've been pulling my hair up into one tail, thinking it was a ponytail. But I was just putting it into one pigtail. And what about those people with short or medium hair length? Have they been putting their hair up into a pigtail too, since a pony has a long tail?

I still don't think pigtails look like a pig's tail. A pig's tail is short and curly and yes, thinner than a pony's tail.

Is really the correct definition of a ponytail is that you have to have long, straight, thick hair to look like you have a pony's tail (aka ponytail) on your head?

And very short, thin, curly hair to have a pig's tail/s (aka pigtail/s) on your head?

And the BRAIDED bullshit doesn't reflect pigtails at all, even though hair may look thinner, one braided ponytail is still the same amount of hair as a non-braided ponytail. I've even seen actual horses' tails braided, when that is the case, does that mean a horse has a pig's tail on his/her butt-end?

I just don't buy the pigtail theory. To have a correct pigtail, you have to have short, thin-hair, defined curls. My hair would be in that category if I just didn't have this frizz shit. The mousse may help to get the defined in and the frizz out. Oh that might work, short, thin-hair, oily curls. Just like a pig. Pigs come off oily in the mud. Yea, I'm getting the definition now, but not a lot of people have pigtails. Just people like me, when I put oil in it, or when I just don't wash it for a while, the natural oil.

And why don't they call dreadlocks, lamb hair or sheep-tails?

Whomever decided, way back when, to call a half of a ponytail, a pigtail, was just stupid. Or maybe this person was genius. To con the whole world into thinking & calling 2 small ponytails on 1 head, the famous Pigtails. I would like to la
ugh with this person!

a true debism: I'm sticking with my pic-tails! That way, I can pick any tail to wear on my head!