I'm not sure whether to be honored or horrified.

I had to look up 'tonsorially'.

Ye gods, jan. That's just wrong.

and mike, the balding thing works on you, kinda like Ed Harris. Don't do the minoxydil/toupee thing, the male equivalent of breast implants and collagen.

Yeah, jon, I don't mind it so much. I'm glad my head isn't lumpy. It started thinning at around 24 (5 years ago) and I've been using the Nioxin shampoo (which my sister can get me at a substantial discount) pretty much since then. It hasn't stopped the process but it has slowed it significantly. I know the day when I just start shaving it all off is inevitable but if all I need to do to delay that day is use a different shampoo, not a problem.

I used to see this lawyer at court (name of Barry Lesler) who was totally bald on top, had been for years, just a little fringe of hair round the base of his skull.

One day I was in the women lawyer's robing room when a friend of mine came in, nearly peeing herself laughing. The only words she was able to say were "Barry Lesler" before she had to dash to the loo in a fit of hysteria.

When I saw him, I realised why. He'd begun to have hair plugs inserted into his scalp, and, because he was so bald, it was obviously going to be a long, long process. And this was just at the start of it.

If you've ever looked at a doll's head, you'll see how the hair is inserted in plugs in rows. Well, it was exactly like that, about 30 neat little rows, along the front, these little tufts sticking up, with all the rest of his head bald. I could literally feel my jaw drop as he approached me (of course, he just had to be on the other side of the case I was on, didn't he!)

And, of course, once seen, I couldn't take my eyes off it. All the court ushers (a crew of gossipy women) were also nearly wetting themselves. Poor bloke, he looked utterly ridiculous. And he didn't look too bad bald either.

I bet my client thought I was a right div, I spent most of the morning with the expression of a slack-jawed yokel on my face.

Heh, next meetup, someone'll hold you down, and draw bunnies on your head. From a distance they'll look like hares.

Boom boom!

Hand to God, mike, I hadn't noticed. I rarely get up that far ;-P

*runs*

I've been using the Nioxin shampoo

So help me, I red that as "Nixon shampoo," and imagined you with a sudsy head shaking your jowls furiously.

I am not a crook.

It's even funnier if you imagine Gerald Ford in there scrubbing his back.

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Now animate the frog's tongue whipping out and eating the head.

Essexjan, that photo looks like the man is wearing a yamulke with flaps.
And I think Mike is a cutie, I'm just sayin'.