I will repeat my thoughts on the picture in the previous post (buried in the comments for the previous post).
What is the evolutionary point in growing hair on your upper lip when you hit puberty (if you're a guy)*?
And,
How come people thought Prince looked cool with bum fluff, but hassled the crap out of you at school when you had the very same upper lip fuzz?
*While we're at it, what's the evolutionary advantage of a warm upper lip for old women (and Italians)?
9 comments:
Humans have nasal hair (to filter particles inhaled into the nostrils) and follicle cells from the nostrils extend down to the area of the upper lip. They're very sensitive to the hormones that trigger hair cell growth.
Don't say I never tell you anything.
Danyl is wrong. Old women have hairy lips to put off young men trying to kiss them.
Richard (of RBB)
I think we've all learned something here.
Even Richard.
Although I've noticed no one answered my second question.
"How come people thought Prince looked cool with bum fluff, but hassled the crap out of me at school when I had the very same upper lip fuzz?"
John-Paul this was not to do with your upper lip, it was because you were a 'library boy'. Check out the library at school any lunchtime and you'll see what I mean... library boy.
Richard (of RBB)
How come people thought Prince looked cool with bum fluff, but hassled the crap out of me at school when I had the very same upper lip fuzz?
You know, I think they also covered this in my developmental biology course but I was sick that day.
I just listened to purple rain and I'm still no wiser as to what its about. He named the album and movie after it: surely it means something?
Also listened to 'When the Doves Cry'. That's a great song but if they aren't the worst fucking lyrics of all time they've gotta be in the top 5.
danyl,
Watch your language please.
Purple Rain is a play on Purple Reign. Notice how Prince always seems to wear purple?
He's implying that his music will 'reign' for a long time.
Richard (of RBB)
Solver of problems.
I refer to my previous answer:
it "means" the words sound cool with the guitar riff
Two other interpretations:
1) Wikipedia tells us that around that time some people have near death experiences had reported seeing purple rain before they were brought back to life (mental note: take an umbrella to heaven)
2) Prince is an incredibly talented musician with very little depth. He might have been standing outside a club one night when it was raining and noticed the rain was purple thanks to the ubiquitous pink and purple neon that was around in the 80s.
That's it. I'm out of theories.
This may surprise you R of RBB but I wasn't a library boy. Every day it didn't pour with rain I was out on the field playing rugby. The passive aggressive aren't found in libraries.
Is there a type called the active pacifist?
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