Unexpectedly invite an ex-friend round one night for a meal. (Preferably a frizzy blond or someone with very long, but thin hair.)
During the usual after meal banter, ask them if they'd like a go on your Van de Graaf Generator* (they always say yes, those sort of people can't rest the temptation).
During the entertainment, and just when their hair's at its most peculiar, reveal a hidden can of hairspray and let them have it!
Then send them packing.
*If you don't have a Van de Graaf Generator, use a cat and an ebonite rod.
(I can't accept all of the blame. My nephew and niece thought this one up - I just added the malicious streak)-- Dub, Apr 06 2006 Soldiers of Destruction http://www.artofthe...truction_photos.htmHairspray? Try mulberry juice and epoxy resin. [ConsulFlaminicus, Apr 08 2006] Big Bad Hair http://www.baycityw...images/big_hair.jpg [Dub, Apr 09 2006] Argh http://www.phys.vir...n/Bitmaps/Hair1.jpg [Dub, Apr 09 2006] Eerk http://www.kfunigra...%20der%20Graaff.jpg [Dub, Apr 09 2006] Aw http://www.planet.n...-209.onlineBild.jpg [Dub, Apr 09 2006] Hair Raiser Hair_20Raiser [DrCurry, Apr 09 2006] As Hairstyling Aid Van_20de_20Graaf_20Haircutting_20Aid [DrCurry, Apr 09 2006] (???) Wall of Hair http://www.israelly.../phil%20spector.jpg [thumbwax, Apr 10 2006] I like it! Except for not finding anything malicious in it--it all seems like good fun to me.
Based on my time in a powder-paint booth, I'd say that the particles of the hairspray might pick up a charge and repel away from the hair. If you could put the opposite charge on the hairspray can, it might work better. Might, I say. Definitely a croissant.-- baconbrain, Apr 06 2006 Thanks for the bun (from my nephew and niece).
Well they'd been musing on the bus over one of the other passenger's hair-do (We were on our way to the Science and Natural History Museums in London - so we had static on our minds).-- Dub, Apr 06 2006 Science Museum? - Do you have any idea what happens when matter meets anti-matter?-- Dub, Apr 08 2006 sp. Van de Graaf Generator
Great idea. Post some photos when you're done.-- dbmag9, Apr 08 2006 sp. Ta. [Links]-- Dub, Apr 09 2006 I thought we'd kinda done this one to death already - see links.-- DrCurry, Apr 09 2006 thumb: you wandered into one of those fairy mounds where you don't come out untl 100 Internet years later?! Anyway, that link doesn't work so well for me.-- DrCurry, Apr 10 2006 Link still works for me OK - just Google Images for the thankfully inimitable - Phil Spector - (who must make you surely not pine for hair) and you'll do fine. While I've been out and about for a spell, I've sent more than a few New Yawkers to your Curry and f-stop sites. If so challenged 50 years from now, I could draw many a baker's pic from memory, certainly yours, and when all is said and done, that, not buns or fishbones, is what counts.-- thumbwax, Apr 10 2006 Very strange.-- DrCurry, Apr 10 2006 Cheers DrC - As [dbmag9] pointed out I can't spell Van De Graff (I naughtly relied on Google's "web's most common spelling" method to check, rather than a physics book) - and then I didn't find anything when I searched HB - BTW - I can't access Wall Of Hair-- Dub, Apr 10 2006 random, halfbakery