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The Devil Girl Goes Batty
You can ask me out, just make sure you don’t smell weird
I always thought the main reason men kept their hair short was to avoid bats getting all tangled up in it.
But then I met Bela, who not only kept his hair well greased, he worked in a room chock-a-block with Van de Graaff generators and sparkalicious Jacob’s Ladders. Talk about a fire hazard!
I’m not sure what would actually be preferable, a tangled bat or finding myself with a chemical fire raging across my scalp. Scratch that, I’ll risk encounters with a flying mouse any day.
But given Bela’s concern with male toiletry came a willingness to risk Tête Flambée, it should come as no surprise to anyone that he wanted to kill people with special aftershave.
That’s right, aftershave!
So here’s the sitch. Bela is pissed because he sold his shares in a company that made millions on his aftershave. No, no, not the murder weapon aftershave, a smelly alternative one that went over big with the ladies.
But as angry as he was, he just kept working for them. Because if he hadn’t we would not have a tale to tell.
So here is Bela. A toiletry chemist designing smelly liquids for men. What does…
