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

Undertoad • Jun 24, 2004 2:03 pm
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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 • Jun 24, 2004 2:22 pm
I want to show this to wannabe hippies with quasi dreads 3 inches long and make them cry. This urge is strong.
wolf • Jun 24, 2004 2:24 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 • Jun 24, 2004 2:40 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 • Jun 24, 2004 2:50 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 • Jun 24, 2004 2:55 pm
Hey, that's the dink we scalped in 1963!
glatt • Jun 24, 2004 2:55 pm
Or it would shed after the same period of time that was necessary to grow that length.
Happy Monkey • Jun 24, 2004 3:05 pm
Yeah. It doesn't stop growing, it falls out and the follicle starts over every so often.
Nothing But Net • Jun 24, 2004 3:26 pm
I, for one, welcome our new Ferengi overlords.
chrisinhouston • Jun 24, 2004 4:01 pm
Well, his beard has some catching up to do! And check out those mean fingernails!
Guess • Jun 24, 2004 5:17 pm
eww I wouldn't want to encounter one of his hairs lying around
Cochese • Jun 24, 2004 5:20 pm
That'd be like walking around w/ a boa constrictor on your back/shoulders all day.
jaguar • Jun 24, 2004 5:35 pm
why though?
Torrere • Jun 24, 2004 7:20 pm
Nice beard! and a pretty cool mustache too.
Cyber Wolf • Jun 24, 2004 8:28 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.
paranoid • Jun 25, 2004 8:54 am
Is it just be or does it look like a giant piece of shit he is holding?
Karenv • Jun 25, 2004 4:30 pm
Originally posted by Cyber Wolf
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.


Under the hat the hair looks like it is grey. He just has 20 years of younger hair hanging around.

That thing must really stink if the last time he washed it was 6 years ago.
glatt • Jun 25, 2004 4:43 pm
I bet after the first 6 months, the smell reaches a plateau, and never gets any worse. I won't be testing that theory though.

Oh, and welcome to the Cellar, KarenV.
chrisinhouston • Jun 25, 2004 4:49 pm
I'm only guessing here but perhaps his toe nails look like this!
glatt • Jun 25, 2004 5:14 pm
ew and yuck:vomit:
jaguar • Jun 25, 2004 5:35 pm
jesus did you have to post that??
wolf • Jun 26, 2004 1:19 am
I've seen stuff like that live.

It's much worse in person.
jojomonkeygirl • Jun 26, 2004 3:57 am
I gotta ask....What the hell is the purpose? It's nasty, it probably stinks, it's gotta give him headaches, backaches, etc.....and I think that style makes him look much older than he really is.

I'm sorry....am I whinning?;)

For the love of God, I just saw the toenails....:whofart:
wolf • Jun 26, 2004 10:03 am
Hair doesn't look so bad now, does it?