A Guide To Black Slang

November, 1976

Voted in for her contribution to the art of good grooming: a Canadian woman who claims that the excrement of a mynah bird has cleared up her dandruff. The girl was having lunch at a tennis club when a mynah bird landed on her head and relieved itself. "I left it there," she said, "thinking it had to have some nutritional value. I rubbed it into my hair and let it dry before washing it out. I guess you could call it a poop treatment.