What's with the phallic hairdos?

[T J]

I saw it more than once on more than one chick. Hair, pointing straight up like a ... phallushttp://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=r...hallic&usg=AFQjCNFEKa2hrwapwdYnzFqXR9U2tKtBdw... Is it supposed to be mini-beehives? Looked kinda silly to me every time I saw it on the bridge, anyone else catch this?

 

[chardman]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

Herdoos? Falic? English not your native tongue?

 

[T J]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

Herdoos? Falic? English not your native tongue?

No, but I am not a goddamn English major and sometimes like every human I mess up. If as much attention was paid to topic as is spelling this would be a better place. Stop being a spelling nazi.

Sorry, could a mod please fix the title?

 

[Rackon]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

Ummm...back to the topic...I assumed those "tall topknot" thingies were a nod to the 60s and the cizarre hair of TOS - there were a couple very sixties buns on the bridge too.

As far as I'm concerned, I hope the Enterprise ditches all the goofy do's on the ladies, phallic or no. It's kinda fun once, but ugly is ugly and goofy is goofy and at some point it's just...distracting.

 

[The Answer]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

Herdoos? Falic? English not your native tongue?

No, but I am not a goddamn English major and sometimes like every human I mess up. If as much attention was paid to topic as is spelling this would be a better place. Stop being a spelling nazi.

When humans make mistakes people correct them, right? Calm down.

As for the subject, I can't say I ever noticed. Not everything that points up is an erection.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

I liked Uhura's hairdo. Beyond hers, I didn't actually notice any hairdo's.

 

[Jeri]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

"An INTeresting monsta needs an INTeresting hairdo." -- Bugs Bunny

I was just watching STNG:Half a Life yesterday, and they sure gave Michelle Forbes a strange 'do in that episode. I kept wondering if that style was perhaps common as dirt and nobody thought a second thing of it on her planet.

 

[T J]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

Herdoos? Falic? English not your native tongue?

No, but I am not a goddamn English major and sometimes like every human I mess up. If as much attention was paid to topic as is spelling this would be a better place. Stop being a spelling nazi.

When humans make mistakes people correct them, right? Calm down.

As for the subject, I can't say I ever noticed. Not everything that points up is an erection.

Ok, fair enough.

 

[M'Sharak]

Sorry, could a mod please fix the title?

Fixed.

I think sometimes a topknot is just a topknot, though you're not the first to have seen something else in a couple of the hairdos.

"An INTeresting monsta needs an INTeresting hairdo." -- Bugs Bunny

I was just watching STNG:Half a Life yesterday, and they sure gave Michelle Forbes a strange 'do in that episode. I kept wondering if that style was perhaps common as dirt and nobody thought a second thing of it on her planet.

It was certainly elaborate, but yeah, probably traditional.

 

[EnsignRicky]

They belong to a race of aliens that are identical to humans in every way, except they're stackable. More than that, you do not want to know.

 

[Franklin]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

"An INTeresting monsta needs an INTeresting hairdo." -- Bugs Bunny

I was just watching STNG:Half a Life yesterday, and they sure gave Michelle Forbes a strange 'do in that episode. I kept wondering if that style was perhaps common as dirt and nobody thought a second thing of it on her planet.

"Monsters are such INteresting people." Love that cartoon.

It's funny, but hair length and hairdo can date a picture more than anything. Even in Trek, the progression of the length of Shatner's hair and sideburns in TOS make it easy to tell 1966 from 1969. And, part of what makes TMP scream 1970s is the hairdos many of the actors have, especially Nichols.

Especially for sci-fi, it's probably better to either go with neutral hairdos or even something really far out rather than stick with what's in style at the time of shooting.

 

[Jeri]

Especially for sci-fi, it's probably better to either go with neutral hairdos or even something really far out rather than stick with what's in style at the time of shooting.

Boy, that's the truth; and the far-out style is probably safer. "Neutral" has a way of leaking into a style despite itself.

It was certainly elaborate, but yeah, probably traditional.

Exactly; those people were nothing if not traditional.

We bought a cartoon cell from Warner Brothers of Bugs doing the monster's hair. It's been hanging in the office here for years.

 

[JuanBolio]

You'd want a do that wouldn't float around and get in your face if you found yourself in zero-G. They're in space, after all.

 

[M'Sharak]

We bought a cartoon cell from Warner Brothers of Bugs doing the monster's hair. It's been hanging in the office here for years.

Heh, look what I just found.

 

[T J]

Excellent!

 

[Rackon]

In the original poster's defense, there is at least one outrageous do on the Enterprise that I believe one could suggest that the - erm - hair style is "phallic". It's probably a yeoman, and her hair is scraped back, with the the hair done into - not exactly a topknot - but whatever it is (gotta have a wire form to make anyone's hair do that) it looks like some sort of long weener at a 90 degree angle to her crown. Either she's seen more than once in the backround or the style is spreading like a virus through the female crew. But we may have to wait for the DVD and screencaps.

Anyhoot, after seeing XI a dozen times, I can vouch that the thing is there. (Although my first eraction was "ugly".)

 

[M'Sharak]

In the original poster's defense, there is at least one outrageous do on the Enterprise that I believe one could suggest that the - erm - hair style is "phallic". It's probably a yeoman, and her hair is scraped back, with the the hair done into - not exactly a topknot - but whatever it is (gotta have a wire form to make anyone's hair do that) it looks like some sort of long weener at a 90 degree angle to her crown. Either she's seen more than once in the backround or the style is spreading like a virus through the female crew. But we may have to wait for the DVD and screencaps.

Anyhoot, after seeing XI a dozen times, I can vouch that the thing is there. (Although my first eraction was "ugly".)

Oh, I know which one you mean. One of the women at the desks along the back of the bridge wears her hair in that 'do. (Maybe it's just a fad hairstyle, who knows?) I'll see if I can find a cap of it when I've got a few minutes.


Edit:

Okay, I know I've seen a cap of the bridge officer wearing the upright hair, but I haven't found it yet. I did find this (a fairly subdued example) and a more dramatic one here:

 

[Nardpuncher]

Re: What's with the falic herdoos?

Herdoos? Falic? English not your native tongue?

No, but I am not a goddamn English major and sometimes like every human I mess up. If as much attention was paid to topic as is spelling this would be a better place. Stop being a spelling nazi.

When humans make mistakes people correct them, right? Calm down.

As for the subject, I can't say I ever noticed. Not everything that points up is an erection.

We had a teacher at our school here in Taiwan that would confuse "too" and "to", as in "Those kids were to crazy!" and wrote "Your a great student!" on a kid's report card.
When confronted about this she said we were being spelling nazis...but that's not really spelling more than a basic inability to grasp simple concepts.
A spelling nazi would be one who chastises you for misspelling longer, more difficult words.

 

[trampledamage]

In the original poster's defense, there is at least one outrageous do on the Enterprise that I believe one could suggest that the - erm - hair style is "phallic". It's probably a yeoman, and her hair is scraped back, with the the hair done into - not exactly a topknot - but whatever it is (gotta have a wire form to make anyone's hair do that) it looks like some sort of long weener at a 90 degree angle to her crown. Either she's seen more than once in the backround or the style is spreading like a virus through the female crew. But we may have to wait for the DVD and screencaps.

Anyhoot, after seeing XI a dozen times, I can vouch that the thing is there. (Although my first eraction was "ugly".)

Oh, I know which one you mean. One of the women at the desks along the back of the bridge wears her hair in that 'do. (Maybe it's just a fad hairstyle, who knows?) I'll see if I can find a cap of it when I've got a few minutes.

There was a woman with a weird hair style like that in one of the stills for the caption competition. Possibly the shot where Uhura is telling Spock she deserves to be on the Enterprise.

 

[M'Sharak]

There was a woman with a weird hair style like that in one of the stills for the caption competition. Possibly the shot where Uhura is telling Spock she deserves to be on the Enterprise.

Now edited into my post above. ^^

Still trying to remember where I saw a cap of the one on the bridge.