thatches!

I'll repost when I can work out how to do so.

...here he is in June 2011, with former Mahavishnu Orchestra maestro Narada Michael Walden on drums/vocals.

It's a terrific performance - but what *IS* going on on Beck's head?

Phil Spector

Another strange man that my mum dated briefly in my youth (she relly knew how to pick them...) was a chef at a restaurant where my sister had eaten lunch every day when she worked in an office next door, many years earlier.
When he was introduced to the two of us he recognized her and was afraid that she would recognize him and notice that something had changed...so after saying hallo he grabbed hold of his impressive hair, lifted it right up above his head and said;
"You see, it's a toupee".
A bit of a shock for all of us, and quite unnecessary since my sister had no idea who he was until he told her, after that unexpected reveal.

For years after we would greet each other by miming lifting off a wig while yelling "It's a toupee, you see!"

(I should write a book called "1001 knights, and not a single one in shining armour: the strange dating life of my mum")

"And now I'd like to perform one of my lesser-known songs, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together on me Bonce and Grooving with Reg"

Steve Harley had an intriguing midlife tonsorial transformation from this...

to this...

.
Personally I think it makes him look even more irresistable ( right, ladies?)

I just don't understand why any male would resort to wearing a 'highland jig'. Male pattern baldness is hardly uncommon, after all - and doesn't their sense of vanity extend to not wishing to look ridiculous? I find it difficult to take such people seriously.

In a related vein, any man who dyes his hair is simply not to be trusted. Fact. Apart from Roy Wood, obviously.

natural greyness, don't you think?

So, Lando, do you trust him now that he's given up the diabolical look?

....has got to be Joe Pesci's piece in JFK. And just watch how it slips down his forehead between editing cuts in the first few seconds of this sequence. I noticed this the first time I saw the movie.

It took an Oscar for best film editing!

Any other bad movie barnets?

...("The Untold Tommy Cooper", I assume) and, no, that OP pic doesn't do the bizarreness justice; it does indeed look SO separate from the rest of his hair and head, it is as conspicuous as a bald patch, or more so. The even weirder thing is, they showed a clip of him and Cooper back in the Seventies, and his hair then was so strange it looked more like a wig than a wig. I'm assuming it WASN'T a wig back in those days.

syrup wearers in The Stones do you reckon? I reckon probably 2, maybe 3. On a similar vein, does that mean that Sir Thumbs Aloft and Mr R Starr are dodgy characters, Lando?

... his hair is too scared to leave.

Oh really?

These are all, obviously, off the telly.

And finally, this cracker that I snapped in the queue for the Table Mountain cable-car.

I have an absolute blind spot when it comes to wigs...apart from the Phil Spector shots, I could look at any of those pics in this thread and not be aware that they were covering up.

But I agree, given that baldness has nowhere near the stigma that it used to, one wonders why they bother (given my own expanding spot up the back, I may revise this opinion as the years proceed).

A friend of mine, a teacher, was once visited by an inspector, with an obvious, badly made toupee with a greenish tinge. The inspector took his place at the back of the class, and the lesson started. The pupils were on their best behaviour and all seemed to be going well. Just then the door opened and the worst pupil in the class came in, predictably late. He looked round the room and loudly addressed the class. “Right lads, spot the guy with the wig.” There was a stunned silence. My friend said he wished the ground could have swallowed him up.

My dad used to have a combover up until about 1986,me and the future mrs mart1963 went round to my parents house one night after work,we were chatting away about things when the mrs says to my dad "Barrie you've got some broken glass in your hair",so my dad proceeds to tell us about the windscreen breaking on his lorry that day,so the mrs says "hang on I'll get the glass out for you".Now I'm going to stop the story there for a second to tell you something my mrs didn't know was that my dad used about a can of Cossack hairspray a day on the aforementioned combover,back to the story.My mrs goes across to my dad and grabs the piece of glass in his hair,but it is stuck fast and so as she pulls it my dads combover starts lifting up,my mrs panics and says to my dad you'll have to get it yourself Barrie it seems to be stuck,at this point my brother,sister,mother and myself are in stitches at this.The next time we saw my dad about a week later my mother had made him had the combover cut off and it looked a damn sight better,took years off him.

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/someones-hamster-has-gone-missing#...

now with added photo

Some people were born to wear wigs.

Not taking sides in the JFK conspiracy theories, but bullets can do funny things.
I once knew an army guy who got shot in NI. The bullet hit him just below his neck, travelled downwards outside his skin but beneath his uniform, between the clefts of his buttocks (***eyes water here***), down the outside of his right thigh and entered his right calf, shattering his tibia and coming to rest, as it were, just above his ankle, with the point of the bullet protruding out of his skin..... saw the original fotos, seen the scars.... he did have a bit of a limp it must be said.... he also told me about a mate of his who got hit fair and square in the forehead with an armalite bullet which bounced of his head and ended up inside his helmet.
So it is possible that the "magic bullet" did ricochet (spelling? sorry) from JFK to Governor Connally and back again. There is no definate outcome when a bullet hits a body, it's your luck!

I've always thought Shatners was the benchmark.. No thought at all given to the hair he had originaly.. He just marched right into the shop and demanded the "Burt Reynolds" model circa 75.

It's a good 'un.

But, and it may just be me, our beloved Dame Dave has a fine head of hair for one approaching his 65th birthday.

Here's what happened.

Lee Harvey Oswald, a delusional, Marxist, balding ex-Marine was obsessed with President Kennedy. The reason? JFK was vainglorious and secretly wore a syrup. The wig industry at the time was in the thrall of the mob, who were blackmailing him over his shiny dome head.

Oswald, a noted sharpshooter, han an audacious plan to knock off the president's toupee with a well-aimed rifle shot. The sight of JFK's rug flying across the Dallas streets would cause him to lose his popularity and expose him as the slaphead he really was.

Unfortunately Oswald's aim was a few centimetres too low and he blew his brains out instead.

Sorry peeps, but must post this reply to ianess, who said "...bullets never change direction in mid air".
But they do, and usually will, IF the barrel has a kink, and that will happen with old guns, or if the rifling is well worn, again old guns, or if there is dirt or whatever inside barrel, or if the bullets are old ones with dents, scratches etc, or homemade, or if there is a particularly stiff breeze.... combine any of two of the above then that sucker will come out of the barrell and could go anywhere.
Again, sorry.
As you were.

Minutes of secret meeting of military-industrial complex / CIA / FBI / Castro sympathizers / Mafia / LBJ supporters / Teamsters / Klu Klux Klan / Freemasons / Dallas Ukulele Club (delete as appropriate)

"We're going to assassinate President Kennedy and pin the blame on this Lee Harvey Oswald. He's a crazy Marxist ex-Marine and he'll be seen as a lone gunman."

"Sounds like he's a pretty good shot."

"No, he can't shoot for toffee."

"Well, I guess we could use a semi-automatic weapon. Not like anyone could miss with one of those."

"No. The authorities will discover a defective old Italian rifle."

"Are you sure this will work?"

"Of course. We'll put him in the Book Depository building; it's pretty much impossible to shoot anyone from there, but I doubt anyone will notice."

"Sounds like a terrific plan. Foolproof. What could possibly go wrong?"

Elton, Gibb and Harley all look like they have clumps from the grassy knoll on their head

I suppose I should fess up and apologise for inspiring the JFK related exchanges in this wonderful and hilarious thread about syrups. I had merely intended to flag up the Joe Pesci (David Ferrie) syrup in the JFK movie.

That said, our friends' passionate and, dare one say, rather obsessive interventions on the assassination itself are most instructive and have prompted me to order some of the aforementioned books on this subject from Amazon. When I've read them I may jump into the debate on a thread exclusively devoted to the subject and from a much better informed perspective.

Give me a few weeks to read the books first.

There is a photo of the Monkees where 2 of the remaining 3 (Mr Nesmith having far too much money to care) are wearing toupees. However it's a bit obvious which one spent more money and effort on theirs. I'm a bit of a helpless soul when it comes to posting photos but here goes:

Peter Tork has a wig that *hovers*

And I still can't post photos...EDIT well you learn something new every day...

of Sir Gareth the Numanoid:

That the possible next President of the US of A is less than trustworthy in the barnet department?

Pat Boone loses it

And while I'm here, isn't Carl Palmer of the Brain Salad Surgery Hitmakers rather an object of suspicion nos jours?

Frankie Howard
Terry Wogan
Charles Hawtry

John Wayne at Harvard (skip to about 1:28)