# "Love peace and Hair grease" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 13, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-peace-and-hair-grease/269068 "2004-10-13T20:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beltane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@Beltane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beltane)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-peace-and-hair-grease/269068/1 "2004-10-13T20:34:36Z")
Does anyone know the origin of this phrase? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-peace-and-hair-grease/269068/2 "2004-10-13T21:09:27Z")
I must be getting old. I Googled and this phrase is used as a sig by seventeen zillion teenagers, some guy from Survivor: Africa, and in a 2001 Popa Wu song, “Red Rum,” but I’ve never heard it before. The earliest date I found it used is [2/12/1999](http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/stillcrazy/4/3.html). No clue on the origin, though. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-peace-and-hair-grease/269068/3 "2004-10-13T22:07:36Z")
Ru Paul has it as a lyric in a song from his 1993 album “Supermodel of the World.” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-peace-and-hair-grease/269068/4 "2004-10-13T22:10:52Z")
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