#108 Hair!
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For the first time in twenty-five years I have a new hairstyle. For a quarter century I’ve been faithful to a basic short-bangs, parted-on-the-right, square-backed haircut. It was a simple look; a serious look; a look that said, “I’m clueless about fashion.”
If they had named my hairstyle, it would have been called The Republican.
Some masculine hairstyles are named for the people who made them popular like The Caesar or The Donald. (One is a famous tyrant and the other was a Roman Emperor.) My new do with itâs short-back-and-sides and gelled bangs that stick out should be called The Richie Rich after the famous comic-book character.
When I got that first good look at myself in the mirror in the salon, all I could think was, “What have I done?” and “Will my wife like it?”……
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NOTES:
- Join me in the Dr. Floyd 2008 Summer Reading Challenge! You can get all of the details here:
http://www.doctorfloyd.com/challenge - Or join my Shelfari group at:
http://www.shelfari.com/groups/25751/about - In this episode I used a quick throw-away joke about accidentally xeriscaping my front yard. For more info on this interesting word, check out Grammar Girl’s essay at:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/xeriscape-zeroscape.aspx - If you’re interested in actual hairstyles, you can check out the Wikipedia entry at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_style
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I feel the pain of this one. With a psudo military cut myself and thinning rapidly happening, I completely understand that sun burns up their hurt. Thanks for sharing your misadventures in hair.
I had a professor in College that had a comb-over. He was very tall so in order to write the long equations on the board he would lean to one side, and that hair would fall off of his head. He would sweep it back in place and then return to writing on the board. He would repeat many many times during an hour long lecture. It was such a distraction one day, and being that this was a physics class, several of the other students and I decided to calculate the energy he used during class just sweeping the comb-over. It was a pretty bug number.
That’s a great story, Jeff. Thanks for sharing!