This takes me back quite a long time ago to “Dippity Do”. Also known as ‘hair concrete’. You could apply it to your hair and ‘sculpt’ After application, the product turned to a substance resembling Portland Cement..

Being your usual, rebellious fifth graders, we – my best friend and I – we were, we would ‘obtain’ the product from his mom’s beauty shop. We did bizarre things with our hair. The school administration showed remarkable restraint in not sending us home from school, unless there was a threat that our hair would poke someone’s eye out.

This lasted until we figured out what you could make with sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate… (which would now get us a life sentence at Gitmo).

For those of you who missed the ‘Golden Age’ of Dippity Do – the early 1970′s – here a little trip down memory lane : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbupe7_dippity-do_shortfilms (a couple of commercials from the ’70′s).

I think, later, the military realized that it was effective for repairing damaged tracks on tracked vehicles.