OT: Tuesday mindboggler

My dad showed up the other day with a pretty short haircut. In fact, I asked
him if his barber cut adults' hair too. It's the classic "School's out for
the summer" haircut sported by many 9 year olds the world over. Anyway, what
got me thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and thinking some
more, was the question I posed to him:

How does hair know how long it is?

For instance, your head hair will grow and grow, to seemingly infinite
lengths, unless you do something about it. Like going to a barber and
cutting your hair to look like a child. But, body hair doesn't keep growing.
Try this (I'm not ashamed to say I did):

Find a place on your body where your wife/girfriend/other won't notice your
feminine behavior for a few days. Shave any hair in this small area off. Or
trim it really tight. Wait a few days, a week, whatever, then check back
with your smooth silky skin.
It's the same length as the surrounding hair! What gives? Shouldn't it be
shorter? After all, it grew, but so did the surrounding hair! Right?!
Apparently not! What's the deal?

Body hair is some kind of superintelligent being. Individually, they're
pretty F'in stupid. Put them together en masse, and they KNOW. The just
KNOW. It's creepy.

Head hair and facial hair don't seem to posess this intelligence. Is head
hair of a different species than body hair?

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KB

MCNGP #26
I'm running out of stupid stuff to write. Oh by the way: www.mcngp.com.

Briscobar

> How does hair know how long it is?

I know the answer to this. I figured it out when I
was about 10.

If you're still interested I'll explain it to you.

Until then, have fun exploring your body.

kp "hey, get your hands off that" g

kpg

As scintillating as your deep thoughts are, the answer is relatively simple.
The hair falls out and a new one replaces it.

Jtyc

> As scintillating as your deep thoughts are, the answer is relatively
> simple. The hair falls out and a new one replaces it.

Aw gee,

I was going to make him dance for the answer....

kpg

In news:,
kpg <> rambled:
>
>> How does hair know how long it is?
>
> I know the answer to this.

I know the answer too.

> I figured it out when I
> was about 10.

Showoff. I figured it out, oh, about 2 days ago.

> If you're still interested I'll explain it to you.

No need, but thanks.

> Until then, have fun exploring your body.

Always.

> kp "hey, get your hands off that" g

Dude, it's mine and I can put whatever I want on it.

--
KB

MCNGP #26
I'm running out of stupid stuff to write. Oh by the way: www.mcngp.com.

Briscobar

In news:,
Jtyc <> rambled:
>
> As scintillating as your deep thoughts are, the answer is relatively
> simple. The hair falls out and a new one replaces it.

Yeah, I know. But it took up quite a bit of my time trying to solve this
eons-old puzzle. Or maybe this puzzle just exists in my own warped little
mind. Who knows? Who cares?

--
KB

MCNGP #26
www.mcngp.com spits rhymes like a mofo.

Briscobar

> I was going to make him dance for the answer....

My apologies. I wrote my response before I had seen yours.


From now on, I shall exercise patience.


*meditates*

Jtyc

In microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, Briscobar spewed across the ether:

> It's the same length as the surrounding hair! What gives? Shouldn't it be
> shorter? After all, it grew, but so did the surrounding hair! Right?!
> Apparently not! What's the deal?

ISAGN!

We must submit a grant proposal to allow the MCNGP Labs to investigate this
phenomenon!

A couple of mil of the taxpayer's finest oughtta cover it.

--
JaR
Thug 10110
MCNGP.com Dept of Hirsute Research

JaR

In microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, Jtyc spewed across the ether:

> As scintillating as your deep thoughts are, the answer is relatively
> simple. The hair falls out and a new one replaces it.

Ah! But how does it know *when* to fall out, eh?

--
JaR
Thug 10110
MCNGP.com Dept of Follicle Folly

JaR

Self-regulating hair length is really the norm across
hairy species. Human body hair, and animal hair
(like your dog) grows to a genetically predetermined
length.

The real anomaly is head hear (and some French
women's arm pit hair) that seems to grow unregulated.
I think back to prehistoric man and wonder what was
the point of long head hair? To keep the sun of the
back of the neck? Apes don't possess long head hair,
but then they have hairy necks too.

Things that make you go hmmmmmm...

Glad we had this time to talk.

kpg

kpg