Word: yuppiegoo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are usually two crude drawings, side by side. Mr. Before, the bald- headed man on the left, stares glumly into a future of rejection, loneliness and despair. No bright-eyed new friends for him. Mr. After, who has doused himself with Yuppiegoo, now sprouts a coiffure worthy of Mick Jagger, and he smiles toward a future of romance and success. Dom Perignon in the Bahamas, white tie. Yours for only $1.98, or some such, say those little ads that have long appeared, along with offers of trusses and tattooing kits, in the back pages of the hairier...
...they tend to prevent a patient from seeking effective treatment. It is on that ground that the agency has fought against letting cancer victims be treated with apparently worthless products like Laetrile, even when the patients want them and claim to feel improvement. But ) baldness? Do furtive applications of Yuppiegoo really prevent a bald man from seeking more serious treatment? Does he really need serious treatment...
...number of sedately bald men would rather look like some wild-haired rocker, Bruce Springsteen, say. When the Washington Hospital Center asked for volunteers to test the effects of minoxidil, 10,000 hopefully offered themselves. One hundred were chosen; the other 9,900 were left to console themselves with Yuppiegoo and daydreams. And that is what the FDA, ignoring President Reagan's preaching against Government regulation, seems to be heartlessly and needlessly trying to regulate out of existence...
...When Yuppiegoo is rubbed on that bald spot on the back of the head, nothing will happen...
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