News from the 1980’s that never made the headlines
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This quiz book focuses on news from the 1980’s with 20 different categories and over
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These are weird, wonderful and odd stories and all true; for quiz masters needing new and unique material and those who enjoy reading about the slightly bizarre side of real life.
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Hair Inserter
Madame Tussaud’s waxworks was seeking a Hair Inserter willing to put up to 10,000 individual hairs into wax heads of its subjects.
When one member of the waxwork’s staff of six Hair Inserters leaves, it is not too easy to find another with the necessary art school or hairdressing background, plus a stoic disposition.
“It is a great tradition of Tussaud’s that we insert hairs individually,” Miss Juliet Simpkin, said. “It is a job that takes anything from two to five weeks. Inserters get two months of training, in which they are taught how to warm the wax head with a 60 watt ordinary electric light, so that the surface is soft enough to take the hair. Once the head is cooled, the hair can be cut, washed and set."
Not surprisingly, hair inserters tend to feel that alternative employment would be preferable after about four years of their singular craft, and move towards wig making or the theatre or something else entirely.