Last night in a Burger King, I saw an actual, real-life jheri curl in the year 2010. A man came in there rocking a mean Eazy-E, Michael Cage, Dominican Relief pitcher curl for all the world to see. I even tweeted about it, as you can see above. Unfortunately, he got away before I could take a camera phone picture of him, which I also tweeted about.
I had to admire this anonymous fellow’s outright defiance of all things tasteful and fashionable. Therefore, I’m creating a national holiday in his honor. From this day forward, May 18 shall be known as National Day of Jheri Curl Remembrance. The holiday has dual significance:
- Honor the contributions to society of those men and women who wore horrible jheri curls at some point in their lives
- Make sure that the jheri curl NEVER makes a comeback.
Similar to the pillow cases and couches belonging to those wearing this hairstyle, the jheri curl has left a permanent, greasy stain on history. Therefore, we must remember the people who made us smile despite their flammable curl activator-powered coif. Simultaneously, it is your civic duty today to pull someone with a jheri curl aside and say to them “You know the jheri curl has been out of style for over 20 years now. Get your life together!”
More juice after the break. Just follow the drip…
I am honoring the greasy jheri curled people who actually made good music over on Blip.fm. Also, the Twitter hashtag for tweets related to National Day of Jheri Curl Remembrance is #Jhericurlremembrance. Honor our shimmery brethren! Darryl Jenks would want it that way.
“Rock! Don’t stop! Do the Jheri Curl!“
That was not one of our better contributions to the world. The 80s had some really dark times.
True. Although some ’80s stuff came back into style, I’m glad parts of the decade like this STAYED in the past!
Loolllll omg!
No offense, but I never heard of a Jhericurl until I came to America!!!!! Ha ha! Thank you, Eddie Murphy!
I don’t know what’s worse, though… The Jheri curl, or women with thick mustaches… Yikes!!!
That is nothing Leon, you need to come to some parts of Mississippi (notably the country parts). You will ladies and dudes rocking Jheri Curls. I saw three women a Friday rocking the Jheri Curl buying shrimp.
lol @ the Micheal Cage reference. He was a power forward for the L.A. Clippers and rocked the greasiest jerrhi curl ever. I thought his red jersey had black trim on the collar until I realized it was just the jerrhi curl juice.
I would never mention it to him because he was so muscle bound I bet he could bench press Guam.
I bet this dude you saw was from Baltimore and was probably wearing Jordache jeans too.
@ Sensuelle, true, it’s an invention of self-hating black folks in the States. I say the mustaches are worse. You can always change hairstyles!
@ The Smoking Ace, I believe you
@ M Slade, Michael Cage’s curl is legendary.