{"id":10807,"date":"2016-04-01T08:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T11:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2016-04-01T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:08:08","slug":"put-this-on-your-self-daddy-o-shampoo-by-lush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/put-this-on-your-self-daddy-o-shampoo-by-lush\/","title":{"rendered":"Put This On Your Self: Daddy-O Shampoo by Lush"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lush<\/p>\n

What is Daddy-O? A form of address, an entreaty, an exclamation? Daddy-O today is a shampoo by Lush, the 100% vegetarian, ethically buying, environmentally conscious, UK-based fresh handmade cosmetics company. Given the name of the shampoo and the leering illustration on\u00a0my bottle\u2019s rear of the man who created it, one might worry that Daddy-O will prove a too intimate experience \u2013 an inmate experience, so to speak, as though \u2018Daddy-O\u2019 were the pitiful pleading of the last-but-one in the prison shower. But what a smell! \u2013 pull my hair, Daddy-O, finger\u00a0vigorously my filthy scalp, press my face firmly into the glass of my shower cubicle!<\/p>\n

Urban Dictionary user Beatnik Nick aptly describes the phrase \u2018Daddy-O\u2019<\/a> as \u2018Mid 50\u2019s to mid 60\u2019s beatnik\/hipster slang. Somewhat equivalent to today\u2019s \u2018dude\u2019 or \u2018man\u2019 but with a much cooler zen-bohemian and\/or streetwise hipster attitude\u2019. Daddy-O<\/em> is the title of a 1958 B-movie\u00a0starring Dick Contino<\/a>. Released as a double feature alongside\u00a0Roadracers<\/em>, it follows hotshot street racer Phil Sandifer as he investigates the murky\u00a0circumstances\u00a0of his best friend\u2019s death. Contino as Sandifer takes the alias \u2018Daddy-O\u2019 to perform as a nightclub singer, suspecting the club\u2019s owner Sidney Chillas of some involvement in his friend\u2019s murder, in a film whose poster would later appear in Jack Rabbit Slim\u2019s in Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Pulp Fiction<\/em>, and whose lead character would inspire a short story by James Ellroy in the collection Hollywood Nocturnes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the Coen brothers\u2019 Fargo<\/em>, a blood-spattered Carl Showalter, played by Steve Buscemi, utters a concerned and incredulous \u2018Whoa Daddy\u2019<\/a> which takes us slightly off track, but may at least serve as an aid to pronunciation.<\/p>\n