If you try looking up "Static Electricity Ball" in a trusted Dictionary or website you may have a difficult time, as I found out, of actually encountering a satisfactory description of what it is. After being unable to explain what it was through my own words or through other resources our client simply said "I think I know what you mean." I was left wondering if indeed the iconic "Static Ball" of my youth still held any resonance with people today (especially GenYer's), or did I do a disservice to our city's beloved Science Centre in using 'the ball' as a symbol of the Centre.
The following day she arrived at the school with a Japanese tourist brochure that had a picture of a child, similar to the one above, doing pretty much the exact same thing.
So I was left to ponder "without the smiling child with the static charged hair standing straight up, what would happen to the lonely Static Ball?" Obviously, it cannot stand alone like other great entertaining duos: Abbott and Costello; Laurel and Hardy; Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, they are a package deal. As the old Sinatra tune said ".......you can't have one without the other."Photo courtesy of: http://www.stockphotofinder.com/stock-photos/h/hair_static.html
