6/24/2004: 20-foot-long hair

Undertoad · 06-24-2004, 01:03 PM

Thanks to doc for sending this along. This Vietnamese gent's name is Tran Van Hay, and he's got the longest hair on record. It was last cut 31 years ago... and last washed 6 years ago.

Long hair hippie freak.

jaguar · 06-24-2004, 01:22 PM

I want to show this to wannabe hippies with quasi dreads 3 inches long and make them cry. This urge is strong.

wolf · 06-24-2004, 01:24 PM

Many might do such a thing as part of some religious attainment.

I think this guy is just a Crystal Gayle fan.

Happy Monkey · 06-24-2004, 01:40 PM

I've only had one haircut in the past 15 years or so (and that one was at least 8 years ago), and mine's only down to my mid-back. He must have some hefty follicles.

Or maybe it sticks together better if you never wash it...

Clodfobble · 06-24-2004, 01:50 PM

Everybody has a length at which their hair just stops growing. You've probably reached yours, HM. I knew a guy once who couldn't grow long hair past around the middle of his neck. It frustrated the hell out of him since he was trying to be a hard rocker at the time. Cut it, and it would start growing again, but somehow it always knew to stop at that length.

jdbutler · 06-24-2004, 01:55 PM

Hey, that's the dink we scalped in 1963!

glatt · 06-24-2004, 01:55 PM

Or it would shed after the same period of time that was necessary to grow that length.

Happy Monkey · 06-24-2004, 02:05 PM

Yeah. It doesn't stop growing, it falls out and the follicle starts over every so often.

Nothing But Net · 06-24-2004, 02:26 PM

I, for one, welcome our new Ferengi overlords.

chrisinhouston · 06-24-2004, 03:01 PM

Well, his beard has some catching up to do! And check out those mean fingernails!

Guess · 06-24-2004, 04:17 PM

eww I wouldn't want to encounter one of his hairs lying around

Cochese · 06-24-2004, 04:20 PM

That'd be like walking around w/ a boa constrictor on your back/shoulders all day.

jaguar · 06-24-2004, 04:35 PM

why though?

Torrere · 06-24-2004, 06:20 PM

Nice beard! and a pretty cool mustache too.

Cyber Wolf · 06-24-2004, 07:28 PM

Heh...and I thought my hair could eat combs; that thing could probably devour the hairdresser too. Hmm...with a beard that color, you'd think his hair would at least start showing grey too. In hair THAT long, it'd be keen to see a long, smooth brown to grey gradient effect going.

06-24-2004, 01:03 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	6/24/2004: 20-foot-long hair Thanks to doc for sending this along. This Vietnamese gent's name is Tran Van Hay, and he's got the longest hair on record. It was last cut 31 years ago... and last washed 6 years ago. Long hair hippie freak.

06-24-2004, 01:22 PM	#2
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	I want to show this to wannabe hippies with quasi dreads 3 inches long and make them cry. This urge is strong. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

06-24-2004, 01:24 PM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Many might do such a thing as part of some religious attainment. I think this guy is just a Crystal Gayle fan. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-24-2004, 01:40 PM	#4
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I've only had one haircut in the past 15 years or so (and that one was at least 8 years ago), and mine's only down to my mid-back. He must have some hefty follicles. Or maybe it sticks together better if you never wash it... __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

06-24-2004, 01:55 PM	#6
jdbutler If ya cant take a joke, Effya! Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 288	Hey, that's the dink we scalped in 1963! __________________ Phineas J. Twunt

06-24-2004, 01:50 PM	#5
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Everybody has a length at which their hair just stops growing. You've probably reached yours, HM. I knew a guy once who couldn't grow long hair past around the middle of his neck. It frustrated the hell out of him since he was trying to be a hard rocker at the time. Cut it, and it would start growing again, but somehow it always knew to stop at that length.

06-24-2004, 01:55 PM	#7
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Or it would shed after the same period of time that was necessary to grow that length.

06-24-2004, 02:05 PM	#8
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Yeah. It doesn't stop growing, it falls out and the follicle starts over every so often. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

06-24-2004, 02:26 PM	#9
Nothing But Net Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Spring, Texas Posts: 1,481	I, for one, welcome our new Ferengi overlords.

06-24-2004, 03:01 PM	#10
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	Well, his beard has some catching up to do! And check out those mean fingernails!

06-24-2004, 04:17 PM	#11
Guess What's my name? Guess Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 69	eww I wouldn't want to encounter one of his hairs lying around __________________ "Earth laughs in flowers" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

06-24-2004, 04:20 PM	#12
Cochese Disorderly Orderly Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 54	That'd be like walking around w/ a boa constrictor on your back/shoulders all day.

06-24-2004, 04:35 PM	#13
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	why though? __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

06-24-2004, 06:20 PM	#14
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	Nice beard! and a pretty cool mustache too.

06-24-2004, 07:28 PM	#15
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	Heh...and I thought my hair could eat combs; that thing could probably devour the hairdresser too. Hmm...with a beard that color, you'd think his hair would at least start showing grey too. In hair THAT long, it'd be keen to see a long, smooth brown to grey gradient effect going. __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

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