I think $13 is a more realistic cutoff. Surely going to Supercuts doesn't make you gay? Especially if you don't have the necessary privileges to get your hair cut at the local military base.

You guys pay someone else to cut your hair? I suppose you pay them to clip your nails, too.

If you can tell me where to find someone who can give me a haircut for LESS than $10 in Manassas, VA, I'll be much obliged. I can tell you that even the old-fashioned barber shops - and we have at least four or five of them here - don't charge you less than a ten-spot for a straight haircut. I guess that means we're all closeted here.

Joe:

We have doubts about anyone who lives in such tropical climes anyway...

Orrin:

Tropical, what tropical? It's been more like Seattle all year, with all the rain. Any more of this and I'm going to have to trade my new car in for a gondola instead, because we're going to become the next Venice with all the roads flooded (like that's going to help the traffic any).

In Seattle, it's not the rain. It's the drizzle.

Joe:

We already had frost in the higher elevations last weekend. Everything's tropical south of the NH/MA border.

My wife cuts my hair.

Site feedback: clicking on the link, then hitting the Back arrow returns to the top, rather than where one left off (at least on an iMac OSX 10.2 w/ Internet Explorer 5.2). If that is insuperable, maybe opening another window would be better.

Other than that, anything that stops you getting away with a week unchallenged is okay by me.

Ha!

You can only pass the $10 test because you've taken a depreciation allowance for your Flowbee.

Or is that a bowl sitting atop your head?

I cut my own hair with an electric clipper and a handheld mirror, as any real man would.

However, it does mean that nobody would ever confuse me for a metrosexual. I pay in dignity, not dollars.

Michael -- Real men don't bother with the mirror.

I thought the "Moe Howard" haircut died. What the heck do I know.

Anyway, you guys don't miss the air pillow shampoo & rinse, eh?

Ransom --

I'm going more for the Curly. This way I don't need to buy a bowl.

Going to the barber shop is an ancient male ritual. My son and I go a local barbershop. There are two barbers there, Bob and Chris, there are no manicurists, hair washers or women, except for the ocassional mom droping off a small boy. The magazines include, Guns and Ammo, Hot Rod and, for the intellectuals, Esquire. Our town is not particularly expensive.

A haircut there is $10 list price, tip extra.

Ransom:
No man should go to the grave with anyone besides his Mom and his wife having washed his hair.

My wife used to cut my hair, griping all the time.

Now I hardly need a haircut, but she's on strike. So I have to pay $13 (paradise tax included) for about 50 cents worth of work.

My barber is a lady. She's been cutting hair since 1942.