From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David R. Henry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: Invulnerability and hair
Date: 10 Jan 93 07:37:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.C0MnuJ.F9B
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Jon Kung was wondering:

>About Rogue:  her invulnerability must not include her hair,
>since she would not be able to cut it or bleach it.  But then,
>I wonder why we never see her hair burning off or being pulled
>in battle.  Of course, if her invulnerability does cover her
>hair, perhaps that is the real reason she wears body-covering
>outfits -- to hide her abundance of unsightly body hair.  Bleah.

I hold again that the various mutants (along with other superhumans)
*do* have access to those power-nullifying devices villains are always
tying them up with. It's just that long-term use of them for personal
use (say, Rogue on a date) would cause great damage to their cellular
structure. However, they work just dandy for momentary uses such as
shaving, hair styling, and etc. Not to mention stylish, of course.

>-Jon Kung, wondering how Rogue kept her hair bleached during her
>vacation in the Savage Land, seeing as how it grew out so

Well, she wasn't invulnerable at the time, so we assume her mastery of her
Girl Scout training allowed her to find natural tubers and roots heavy in
bleach to keep her coiffure pure.

And, on a completely different note:

>>A Richard Darwin (who _is_ that guy?) quote from one of
>>DHenry's earlier posts, asking something like, "I wonder
>>how he shaves?" got me thinking about Rogue and Colossus
>>and hair.

>Although Dave and I really never discussed this and I may be completely off
>base here (Ok Dave no snide remarks about how I am chronically offbase! 
>(That's  something I am trying to keep a secret! :) )
>I believe it is Dave Henry's pen name.  You know like Samuel Clemens and Mark
>Twain.  Anyhow, Dave writes to such a calibre, and all the GOOD writers have
>one, so obviously so does Dave.		wReam...
>					 Ultimate Ninja of LNH!

Hmm. wReam may have discovered just *why* Judith Kranz novels are so bad.
Hmph. Anyway, thanks for the comparison to the Big Guy, wReam, but Darwin
is *not* my pen name. I've never used a pen name, aside for satirical
reasons, except for the newspaper I published in second grade (!!), the
Martian Gazette, where I went "unnamed." (Although since the whole class
knew who did it, it wasn't no great feat of stealth...)

Who is Darwin? People from Thanatos to the Mighty Elmo have asked that
question. Methinks it's almost time to tell...

>P.S.  Hey, Dave, Have you noticed I haven't bothered you lately???  :)
>I guess now that you're in the LNH and all, well, golly gee, willickers!
>Oh well, I hope you had a nice vacation and all...  :)

I am *not* in the LNH. I pop in to your looney bin to defend my good name and
otherwise ruffle feathers, being the basically anti-social, evil-natured
guy that I am. My vacation was fine, thank you for asking: considering that
I didn't go anywhere, and still was working 40 hours a week, I'm wondering
just when I'll *have* my vacation.

"Like, if I say I care, you'll go away?" --Richard Darwin
-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - "I have a pullchain in my head." -- RIII
My mind is a jackal.--Richard Darwin // What was the question? --Kate Bush
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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