# Ask the chick with dreadlocks

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 18, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477 "2002-12-18T03:35:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477/21 "2002-12-18T18:09:03Z")

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Handy: yeah. Rinsing is the hard part, cause it’s so thick. Like I said, if I washed it every day, besides being a pain in the butt it would get too dry.

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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477/22 "2002-12-18T18:38:48Z")

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Just a side note for you white folks: daily shampooing is generally a no-no for black hair, dreadlocked or not.

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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477/23 "2002-12-18T19:21:03Z")

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**Cranky** , I was gonna say that. I figured it would sound really silly coming from me, though.

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**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477/24 "2002-12-18T19:30:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \*  
> \*\*Just a side note for you white folks: daily shampooing is generally a no-no for black hair, dreadlocked or not. \*\*

And curly hair in general. It is naturally dry, and reccomended that we don’t wash it every day.

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**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477/25 "2002-12-18T19:40:57Z")

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Completely off the point of the thread (ie, this is a hijack warning):

What we got here is a hot young babe studying to be an engineer.

If I weren’t a middle-aged, used-up loser, I’d ask **Super Gnat** to marry me.

Unless her username comes from R.L. Asprins’ _Phule_ novels.

I have a low tolerance for puns.

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**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-chick-with-dreadlocks/143477/26 "2002-12-18T21:40:59Z")

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Thanks, **Exgineer**! Unfortunately my name does come from the _Phule_ novels, but only because a)that was what I was reading when I signed on here; and b)I had not yet experienced the Atrocity Against Science Fiction And Humor Everywhere which is the latter two _Phule_ novels. So I’ll probably change it eventually.

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