Stuff About Combovers
January 27, 2006 12:52 PM   Subscribe

While researching my future, I ran across a few sites about combovers.
posted by KevinSkomsvold (22 comments total)
 
Why isn't The Donald on that first gallery? He is without question the Pope of the Combover.
posted by spicynuts at 1:10 PM on January 27, 2006


Kev
Without question my favorite webpage ever is now www.combover.com/gallery.htm, because it's got quality combovers, gnarly physicists and a banner ad for whippits at the bottom. I fucking love you dude. For reals.
posted by Divine_Wino at 1:17 PM on January 27, 2006


Lookee, they made a motorcycle helmet so everyone could pretend to be The Donald!
posted by fenriq at 1:18 PM on January 27, 2006


I've got the Phil Collins thining going on, but my hair naturally leans to the right, giving it a combover look. Short of going for the penis head look I have yet to come up with a better solution until it recedes to a more acceptable Hunter S. Thompson look. Any suggestions?
posted by furtive at 1:19 PM on January 27, 2006


Doggy Combover.
posted by furtive at 1:25 PM on January 27, 2006


Combovers and whippets. That's like having coffee with apple pie. It just makes sense.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 1:26 PM on January 27, 2006


the whippet link got killed. You damn hippies!!!
posted by Zorro on Doughnuts at 1:53 PM on January 27, 2006


Zorro on Doughnuts, I applaud your username.
posted by scody at 2:02 PM on January 27, 2006


I used to work at a hair salon, and the combover gallery sure brought back some memories... I never EVER called a guy out over his combover. My bread and butter was tips after all, and nothing will piss off a guy with an obviously fragile ego more than insulting his coiffure. But we sure did have fun snickering behind their backs.

There is a certain stigma attached to hair loss. I'm not a man, but I always felt that maybe men feel less manly when they are lossing their hair? However, the combover is not the right way to go... along with bag hairplugs and toupees, I think they call more attention to the problem.

Rudy Giuliani had a combover. When I saw him on television after getting rid of the offending hairstyle I remember thinking MUCH BETTER.
posted by super_not at 2:37 PM on January 27, 2006


Just DON'T do it.

Please.
posted by Red58 at 2:47 PM on January 27, 2006


I don't get why these guys think a combover looks better than just going bald. Might as well walk around all the time will a clown wig on. Actually, I might just do that.
posted by puke & cry at 2:52 PM on January 27, 2006 [1 favorite]


How could you forget Combover: the Movie?
posted by spock at 3:14 PM on January 27, 2006


I honestly expected to see a picture of my dad on one of those pages. Thankfully, I did not.
posted by krix at 3:25 PM on January 27, 2006


> Just DON'T do it.

Shaved is the new combover. As you will see when today's young skinheads get middle-aged.
posted by jfuller at 3:31 PM on January 27, 2006


No discussion of combovers is complete without a mention of Gene Keady. There's your role model right there.
posted by schmedeman at 3:54 PM on January 27, 2006


super_not: I can tell you from experience that going bald in your early 20s doesn't affect your sense of manliness. It's the poor guys who hit middle age who start to lose it. All of sudden they're buying convertibles, hitting on their daughter's friends, and trying new hair products. Anything to recapture their "youth."

Going bald got me more than hair ever would have. In job interviews I projected experience. And more women than I would have guessed liked the look. It's other men who try to make the bald feel less "manly." Men who usually spent more time taking care of their hair than my sister would.

However, I have never met someone who got respect from a combover.

jfuller: From what I can see at the beach is that baseball caps are the new combover.
posted by ?! at 4:03 PM on January 27, 2006


Ron Howard knows exactly what ?! is talking about. Didn't he go to the Oscars with a baseball cap on?
posted by furtive at 4:33 PM on January 27, 2006


Shaved is the new combover.

Yes, well, combovers are the new mullets.
posted by breath at 4:53 PM on January 27, 2006


Combover patent.
posted by Wet Spot at 6:49 PM on January 27, 2006


I love the ol' Alpine Ropetoss.
posted by quite unimportant at 1:25 AM on January 28, 2006


Penn and Teller praised this guy's combover on their TV show.
posted by TedW at 7:46 AM on January 28, 2006


I just explained "combover" to my Japanese gf, and she told me what they say in Japan, it's much better: "barcode" (or "bah-coh-doe")
posted by zardoz at 8:03 PM on January 28, 2006


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