For sale: Michael Jackson's burnt Pepsi hair

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Just last night I said to the wife, "You know what I'd really like? Some of Michael Jackson's hair. In fact, I want the toasted tresses from the 1984 Pepsi commercial where the fireworks erupted too early and set his head ablaze." The missus shot me that "You're a crazy jackass" look I've come to know so well. Well, it turns out you can buy those very locks! A site claiming to be offering bits of the late King of Pop's charred mane assures us it's genuine: "The provenance and authenticity of this lock of hair is impeccable, including the highly publicized video of the original owner of the hair (the commercial's executive producer) using his Armani jacket to extinguish Jackson's hair."

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