When I was a kid I hated my curly hair. Then I realized many people were getting perms because curly hair was desirable. I got it from my mom who shared many stories of when she was in high school trying different methods to straighten her hair, one of them being ironing it on an ironing board.
I was ok with my curly hair until I let it grow longer in the Sixties. I tried straighteners but they didn’t work. I wanted long straight hair but it was not to be.
Once upon a time, I had a fine head of hair. / But now my head is pretty much bare. / Some might call it a loss, / Having a dome with a high gloss. / (I know my barber is still in despair.)
I suppose it depends on one’s point of view. / After all, what’s on your head isn’t what’s you. / And I’ve reached an age / Where my vanity’s assuaged / By what I do, and not by my “do.” ;>)
I always had crewcuts until I went to a civilian college. An Italian barber told me I had curly hair and that women like curly hair. He was right! They like to touch it, comb it and wish they had curly hair (the ones with straight hair, anyway) but they didn’t like me that much more. :)
Young people can be very sensitive about anything that makes them different. I dated a Filipina woman who had beautiful, very curly hair. Unfortunately, her Polish step-father once made a humorous remark about her hair when she was a child. The first thing, and I mean the very first thing, she put on every morning was a beret.
Every one of the males including me, except one from moms family side have lost their hair. The one that hasn’t has the hair all the rest of us have lost. It is so thick he can’t run a comb thru it.
Very true Grandma. Except I lost some of my curl in my hair, reason short very short story, after I hurt my left lower femur got a fracture, I cannot lay on either side only on my back, I lost that slight curl up front.
Templo S.U.D. almost 2 years ago
How would any of you, Pickles readers, define “normal hair”?
The dude from FL (not bragging) Premium Member almost 2 years ago
That is why people get tattoos, so they can be different like everybody else
Jesy Bertz Premium Member almost 2 years ago
The kid has hair like Ted’s in “Sally Forth”. How is it too curly?
gbars70 almost 2 years ago
What is that? That’s not a palindrome, is it?
j_m_kuehl almost 2 years ago
Earl would be happy to trade hair styles
Limpid Lizard almost 2 years ago
?? Curly didn’t have any hair. Nyuk nyuk.
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction almost 2 years ago
Abnormal is normal. Normal is abnormal. And then there’s Earl….
iggyman almost 2 years ago
Could be worse, you could have Larry’s (Fine) hair!
scote1379 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Naturally Curly Hair is a Boon with the Girls when He gets older !
jagedlo almost 2 years ago
Just remember, Nelson…“normal” is only a setting on the dryer!
sandpiper almost 2 years ago
That isn’t as circular as it sounds.
Doug K almost 2 years ago
His hair never looked curly to me (and still doesn’t).
The Reader Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Some of us are just more unique than others.
Corrical almost 2 years ago
Nelson… if you want curly hair then shave your head and get a wig. BOOM
cdward almost 2 years ago
One of the great ironies. And trying to make yourself different just makes you more like everyone else.
juicebruce almost 2 years ago
Another one from almost 20 years ago . Nelson how did your hair thing work out ;-)
bryce.gear almost 2 years ago
Never looked at it from that angle before.
The Orange Mailman almost 2 years ago
When I was a kid I hated my curly hair. Then I realized many people were getting perms because curly hair was desirable. I got it from my mom who shared many stories of when she was in high school trying different methods to straighten her hair, one of them being ironing it on an ironing board.
brick10 almost 2 years ago
Nelson will end up with “Earl Hair” and then rue this day.
jango almost 2 years ago
Is that Opal or Yogi Berra?
ANIMAL almost 2 years ago
Interesting………… but STUPID..!!!!!!
mckeonfuneralhomebx almost 2 years ago
Dont worry kid, one day you will be bald…
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Nelson sure is getting an education every time he visits gramma and grampa….
Daltongang Premium Member almost 2 years ago
One mans normal is another mans crazy.
e.groves almost 2 years ago
I was ok with my curly hair until I let it grow longer in the Sixties. I tried straighteners but they didn’t work. I wanted long straight hair but it was not to be.
Bookworm almost 2 years ago
Once upon a time, I had a fine head of hair. / But now my head is pretty much bare. / Some might call it a loss, / Having a dome with a high gloss. / (I know my barber is still in despair.)
I suppose it depends on one’s point of view. / After all, what’s on your head isn’t what’s you. / And I’ve reached an age / Where my vanity’s assuaged / By what I do, and not by my “do.” ;>)
mistercatworks almost 2 years ago
I always had crewcuts until I went to a civilian college. An Italian barber told me I had curly hair and that women like curly hair. He was right! They like to touch it, comb it and wish they had curly hair (the ones with straight hair, anyway) but they didn’t like me that much more. :)
Young people can be very sensitive about anything that makes them different. I dated a Filipina woman who had beautiful, very curly hair. Unfortunately, her Polish step-father once made a humorous remark about her hair when she was a child. The first thing, and I mean the very first thing, she put on every morning was a beret.
ChessPirate almost 2 years ago
“You’re unique, just like everyone else.”
“I’m not…” ☺
MuddyUSA Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Well, that explains it…who knew?
TMMILLER Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Every one of the males including me, except one from moms family side have lost their hair. The one that hasn’t has the hair all the rest of us have lost. It is so thick he can’t run a comb thru it.
DreamWizard5 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Margaret Mead said that first. “ You are unique just like everyone else.”
kathleenhicks62 almost 2 years ago
I don’t like everyone, like every body else doesn’t. (What the heck does that mean?)
Chrisdiaz801 almost 2 years ago
In that last panel, Nelson is now unique. That could work into a new hairdo when he’s older!
Sir Isaac almost 2 years ago
My tattoo is in a place nobody will ever think to look.
Bryan Smith Premium Member almost 2 years ago
As Syndrome said in the The Incredibles, “When everyone is super, no one will be.”
Mikey Jay almost 2 years ago
When it comes to hair the story on me is, ’Hair today, gone tomorrow!" :-)
kab2rb almost 2 years ago
Very true Grandma. Except I lost some of my curl in my hair, reason short very short story, after I hurt my left lower femur got a fracture, I cannot lay on either side only on my back, I lost that slight curl up front.
syzygy47 almost 2 years ago
Let’s break out the Steve Martin Non Conformist Oath!
jimmeh almost 2 years ago
I used to complain about my thick, curly hair. But my hair took offense, then up and left!
PaintTheDust almost 2 years ago
Normal is a setting on your dryer — I always use “high” which is why my shirts come out wrinkled…
briggs.roy078 almost 2 years ago
Nelson must be part of Generation Snowflake
Realimaginary1 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Grandma, he wanted to hear you say, “Remember, Nelson, you’re unique, unlike everyone else.”
pbr50138 almost 2 years ago
He should be glad he has hair…Earl doesn’t have much.