>>>>So I aught to force my kids to eat the crusts off their sandwiches to get them ready for the cars of tommorrow?
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>>>No force. Just start enjoying the crust yourself.
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>>I've always enjoyed the crust. When I was a kid my grandma used to say "Eat the crust and your hair will go curly". I tried that on our kids (who have my straight hair while Debbie's is curly) and they told me they don't want curly hair. I realised it was a lie though, as mine never did. Mind you, all girls are straightening their hair nowadays (except Naomi, who hasn't got a chance).
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>Come to think of it, something's screwed the genetics of the African American women here. They all got straight hair, with number of exceptions being way below average. Any genetic trait would show some sort of normal distribution - I've seen an expected number of Asians with all variations of eye slant, a spread of hair and eye color in Caucasians, but this is an impossible curve. Gauss would bang his head against a wall. I've seen less then ten AA ladies with curly hair during all the years here. They seem to be born with curly hair, but it mysteriously straightens around the age of nine to eleven, more or less.
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>Maybe it afflicts the males as well, but they won't allow themselves to be seen with it. 99% of them don't display any hair worth mentioning, 0.9% keep it braided and only about the miserable 0.1% are the guys which aren't suffering the syndrome.

Electric hair straighteners ?