The Patent on the Combover

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat May 07, 2005 12:44 am

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars ... /4,022,227

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:19 pm

I see a problem with the wording of this patent.

Method of concealing partial baldness

The combover may be a method of looking weird when you swim,
or a method of causing people to squint curiously at your cranium...
but it is NOT a method of concealing partial baldness.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:28 pm

If it weren't for your link, I think you be kiddin us Walden! I am gloriously bald and have never done or considered such a thing as combover, ya know how stupid those things look

MarkB

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:32 pm

I'm surprised the drawings don't have to be better. I get the general idea but I just don't quite see how it would work. It seems like the person's hair is going to be combed opposite to the usual direction on all three sides of the head.

I mean, how can anyone even contemplate doing this? I wish I were sure I understood this. Would hairspray really hold these foldings of hair in place? I would think you would need tape or something.

IRTradRU? · Post by **IRTradRU?** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:46 pm

emmline wrote:I see a problem with the wording of this patent.
Method of concealing partial baldness
The combover may be a method of looking weird when you swim,
or a method of causing people to squint curiously at your cranium...
but it is NOT a method of concealing partial baldness.

Only the users of the 'combover' think it's concealing.

Random notes · Post by **Random notes** » Sat May 07, 2005 3:16 pm

And why did you start this thread, Walden? Are you trying to suggest that someone here NEEDS a combover? Or that someone has one and needs to know that his subtle deception has been uncovered? ( :roll: )

Come on - out with it!

Roger

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat May 07, 2005 7:43 pm

Combovers are at their coolest when waterskiing or motorcycling. Such a merry flag of hair waving bravely in the wind would bring a smile to the most hard-boiled.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat May 07, 2005 7:54 pm

Nanohedron wrote:Combovers are at their coolest when waterskiing or motorcycling. Such a merry flag of hair waving bravely in the wind would bring a smile to the most hard-boiled.

That reminds me of Bill Murray's combover in that bowling movie he was in where he was the bad guy.

I really have wondered why men even think that a combover looks anything but silly.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:23 pm

I wonder what royalties Ron Popeil had to pay when he came out with his spraypaint solution for the bit of scalp that shines through on the combovers of the light complected.

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:28 pm

I think combovers look worse than being bald myself. I mean really guys, who do think you're kidding? :roll:

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:24 pm

TelegramSam wrote:I think combovers look worse than being bald myself.

They look worse than being bald myself, too.
Heck, we could ALL be bald, and it would still look
better than a combover!

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:32 pm

Definitely!