# What in the world does "Head like a fiber-optic lamp" mean?

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**Created:** [December 22, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-world-does-head-like-a-fiber-optic-lamp-mean/281118 "2004-12-22T04:39:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-world-does-head-like-a-fiber-optic-lamp-mean/281118/1 "2004-12-22T04:39:29Z")

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> [@\[this long rambling thing about comic books](#):
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> ([http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/](http://goodcomics.blogspot.com/))]So I’m talking with this guy who has a head like a fiber-optic lamp, and eventually the beer takes hold

I have not the slightest idea what that phrase means. He uses it again later in the post, but it doesn’t help. Can only see what’s right in front of it? Likes lots of colors that go off in different directions? Is prone to breaking?

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**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-in-the-world-does-head-like-a-fiber-optic-lamp-mean/281118/2 "2004-12-22T04:52:07Z")

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Hair standing straight out from his head, like [this](http://www.coolstuffcheap.com/fibopmoodlam.html)?