Two Dorises And A Dixie Lee

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To be honest, I’m not sure what the plural of Doris is. Perhaps it’s Dorisi, like octopi. All I know is both of these Dorisi appear to be mature college students. And that’s great to earn your degree when you’re over 22. Grandma Moses began her career at an advanced age yadda yadda yadda whatever. That’s not the point.

The point is Doris Hamman. And her head. Truly, it’s more of a conehead shape, with flora and fauna sprouting from the apex. Not as curious as the Selma Blair forehead, which I previously shared in my Hebrew Hair post, but still.

http://www.allure.com
http://www.allure.com

I don’t get this hairdo either, but I’m pretty sure it has to do with samurais and trickery.

35 thoughts on “Two Dorises And A Dixie Lee”

  1. Looks way better on the allure lady. Ms. Hamman is descended from the Easter bunny as those sure look like bunny ears to me. Hippity hoppity.

    Excuse my cluelessness, but I had no idea college classes had yearbooks. Pretty sure mine did not.

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    1. She may have folded her floppy ears into that hairdo. I think you’re right.

      I believe all colleges have yearbooks. I only went once in 1992 to have my picture officially taken during the allotted portrait time, so I “exist” in only that yearbook, not all four years I attended. It’s a good way to get students to pay $100 for the yearbook. P.S., I had a white V-neck T-shirt on. What was I thinking?

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      4. No, just teasing. I must have thought I was being casual and super cool. Better than when I dyed my bleached headbanger locks and wound up with goth black in my senior high school pic. And THAT’S the one they always show at reunions…

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      5. Goth black? Headbanger locks? Wow. And Hello, Larry cracked me up. How could I not have known? Those old shows were the best, even when they were bad.

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      6. Hey, I went through hair phases, but no tattoos or piercings. Got it out of my system early Just your normal run-of-the-mill middle aged crazy now.

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      7. I didn’t get the crazy out of my system when I was younger, so it’s all coming out now. Glad we can be crazy together.

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    2. Haha, I agree with Liz’s assessment. Also, my college also didn’t have a yearbook, but perhaps it’s because the school was so huge (23,000 undergrads) and most of us had no reason to know each other.

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      1. But the Univ of Texas has 50 000 undergrads, and I have dozens of them. Why are you vexing me so? They are heavy, good for weightlifting or killing burglars.

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  2. These pictures, Kerbey, of these Dorisi, I love the way you dance around the real issue.

    Oh, how miserable it must have been walking the halls of hallowed of School U as the only two women with a name that went out of style a quarter century ago.

    You thought I was going somewhere else with it, didn’t you?

    Some post of yours should reveal to us the white V tee-you and the black goth hair-you.

    I promise not to pile on in the comment section …

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    1. That’s what comment sections are for! That was in the 80s and they 80s are long gone…Over half my head is grey now. 😦 But I had a good run as a redhead for awhile, too.

      I bet you Doris will come back, just like Mabel and Ruth are now. What was weirder was that was a woman’s university, and yet there were a handful of men. I can see that ups your dating prospects, but wouldn’t that be embarrassing? 5 men, 2000 women?

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      1. Those five were either the happiest or saddest folks on campus, Kerbey, depending upon their orientation.

        Gray hair is cool, by the way. Way more in than the resurgence of Mabel, Ruth and Doris names, in my book. And hasn’t it been a really long time since you’ve met anybody with the name Gladys?

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      2. I have never met a Gladys! I have heard of them, like unicorns, but never actually spoken to one in the flesh. It sounds like a good start to a poem, though.

        I never met a Gladys
        I never knew a Beulah
        I once said hi to Kakaunokola
        Whilst she did the hula…

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  3. I lived with a Moroccan woman in Tel Aviv (when I was in town) named Gladys. Doesn’t really sound like a proper name for a girl from Casablanca, but what the Hell. It was 1978 and lots of things didn’t make sense: Disco?
    Case rested.

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  4. Frankly I am stuck on Dixie Lee. I don’t think I have ever knew a girl with that name. Just Dixie doesn’t sound right. It’s gotta be Dixie Lee. I think its Doris; Doriae. Or not.

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      1. I don’t know. That is a great name and I knew a girl named Dixie. She was from Nagadoches Texas. I am not at all sure of the spelling. I met her in Virginia. She went to school at Stephen F. Austin University. She was wonderful; beautiful and smart. I really liked her. So what’s the question?

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  6. What a wild picture of Doris! I could say more but…. I just don’t have anything else to say and when I have nothing to say my lips are sealed, say something once why say it again. (At least that what David Byrne would say…)

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  7. I feel such a connection to you right now, Kerbey. Somehow earlier today I overlooked the fact that we both mentioned octopi in our posts today. What are the odds?!

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  8. Now you have done it Kirby, you have officially called attention to Doris Hamman, aka Princess Leia’s real biological mom. Never mind the fact my facts are based on just hair styles alone, and have no basis Darth Vader will be upset

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