A permanent solution to hair loss

[kvn8907]

No one had posted anything since December 28th, and it was looking a little lonely around here.
Also, though I just cleared my Spam folder a few days ago, I already got five identical messages from Hair Loss Solutions.
(I'm 20, and I have all my hair)

[slydon]

Why only gray?

[kvn8907]

Two possible reasons:
*SpikyCo is following a Fordist model of production rather than Sloanism.
*Not enough people are buying SpikeyHair, and they don't have the money for paints or coatings

[MysticalDescent]

Interesting. You're from New York, but spell grey 'grey' as opposed to 'gray'.

You're quite the enigma. Unless there's a simple explanation.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Unless there's a simple explanation.

Said explanation presumably being that "grey" is the correct spelling, and some of us yanks realise that.

[Low-Tech]

I've been using "grey" all my life, I had no idea I was a Eurosnob!

[slydon]

I use grey and gray interchangeably*. Much like ORange and ARange.
*Except for the weather. It's a gray day, never a grey day. My spell checker seems to prefer gray as well :/
However, I refuse to combine Marry, Mary, and Merry into homonyms.

[MysticalDescent]

I just thought it was like the difference between color and colour and that 'gray' was similarly used by everyone in America.

[Saltine]

Gray is a color, but grey is a colour, and greigh is a culler.

[PonderThis]

I just thought it was like the difference between color and colour and that 'gray' was similarly used by everyone in America.

I blame it all on Tarzan. Lord Greystoke, as it were.

[DaVince]

As far as I've known, grey and gray is one of those exceptions that doesn't have a location-specific origin (unlike the o/ou differences in words, or things like postman/mailman).

[PonderThis]

... postman/mailman.

Even that's not quite so clear cut in the US.

I'm going to wait and see what mail the mailman leaves in the mailbox before I mail my letter.

On the other hand, all those letters get sorted down at the Post Office. And the organization that is responsible for all that is the United States Postal Service (originally the Post Office Department), which is run by the Postmaster General.

WEIRD.

[loofah]

... postman/mailman.

I'm going to wait and see what mail the mailman leaves in the mailbox before I mail my letter.

On the other hand, all those letters get sorted down at the Post Office. And the organization that is responsible for all that is the United States Postal Service (originally the Post Office Department), which is run by the Postmaster General.

...which postmarks your mail. Then it is delivered by postal carrier to someone else's mailbox.

[Skimba]

Flight Attendant.

[PonderThis]

[Your mail] ... is delivered by postal carrier to someone else's mailbox.

Assuming, of course, you have affixed your postage stamp to your mail before mailing it.

[DaVince]

A permanent solution to hair loss, huh?

[kvn8907]

Grey. Gray. I knew there were two ways to spell it. I also knew that whatever way I put it in the Spamusement, someone might comment and say it's wrong. But with so many other difficult words to spell, like "irrelevant" and "indubitably", and other more clear-cut differences like their/there and its/it's, when it comes to grey/gray, frankly my dears, I don't give a damn.

A permanent solution to hair loss, huh?

Nah, you'll need to buy a new one every so often. SpikyHair is forever.

[DaVince]

when it comes to grey/gray, frankly my dears, I don't give a damn.

Because its correct eitherway, any way.

Er... It's correct either way, anyway.

[apronymaniac]

The spikes are only available in grey because they are made of nails.

SpikeyHair has also been credited with curing onychophagia, by turning it into trichophagia.

[kvn8907]

SpikeyHair has also been credited with curing onychophagia, by turning it into trichophagia.

Huh?

*looks it up*

Oooooooh.

....

Huh?