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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’s rear of the man who created it, one might worry that Daddy-O will prove a too intimate experience – an inmate experience, so to speak, as though ‘Daddy-O’ were the pitiful pleading of the last-but-one in the prison shower. But what a smell! – 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 ‘Daddy-O’<\/a> as ‘Mid 50’s to mid 60’s beatnik\/hipster slang. Somewhat equivalent to today’s ‘dude’ or ‘man’ but with a much cooler zen-bohemian and\/or streetwise hipster attitude’. 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’s death. Contino as Sandifer takes the alias ‘Daddy-O’ to perform as a nightclub singer, suspecting the club’s owner Sidney Chillas of some involvement in his friend’s murder, in a film whose poster would later appear in Jack Rabbit Slim’s in Quentin Tarantino’s 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’ Fargo<\/em>, a blood-spattered Carl Showalter, played by Steve Buscemi, utters a concerned and incredulous ‘Whoa Daddy’<\/a> which takes us slightly off track, but may at least serve as an aid to pronunciation.<\/p>\n