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Bloggerheads - November 2, 2008
November 02, 2008 Edition 1
Wax wanes
Some time last week, Wax in the City vacated the lofty 1 200m2 premises which they occupied on the 8th floor of Sandton City's Office Towers. All that remains of the upmarket beauty salon is its opulently designed website, where you can read all about the now-defunct bunch of depilatory-wielding, highly trained "Waxarellas" who once were privy to Johannesburg's most famous bottoms and other bits.
Members of the exclusive dehairing club, it seems, were not only relieved of unwanted hair, they also had to fork out R6 000 up front for the luxury of being waxed, polished, spray-painted, tinted, plucked and clipped for a year.
A few months before Wax in the City liquidated (or melted?) they embarked on an aggressive telemarketing recruiting exercise to beef up their membership of around 1 400. Then they folded.
According to a complaint posted on the Hellopeter website, members were told via a "lame SMS" that "Wax" had shut its doors due to financial constraints. Others complained of appointments that were difficult to obtain in the first place and then not kept, staff who bitched to the clientele about management and "bruising and burning" during treatments. Another says simply: WAX IN THE CITY WAS THE BIGGEST *** EVER.
Rumour has it
According to a post on urban legend website snopes.com, a clip from a Bob Hope movie compares democrats with zombies. The clip is taken from the 1940 film The Ghostbreakers, starring Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard and Richard Carlson, in which, according to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) "a radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba".
The dialogue goes like this:
HOPE: You live here?
CARLSON: Yes.
HOPE: Well maybe you know what a zombie is.
CARLSON: When a person dies and is buried, seems a certain voodoo priest has the power to bring him back to life.
GODDARD: Horrible!
CARLSON: It's worse than horrible because the zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly, with dead eyes. Following orders. Not knowing what they do. Not caring.
HOPE: You mean like Democrats?
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