# BEST Comb-Over? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999 "2009-02-09T03:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/1 "2009-02-09T03:03:16Z")
If there **is** such a thing, of course! My vote goes to Sam Donaldson. Q ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/2 "2009-02-09T03:19:47Z")
Sam Kinison? Gene Keady? ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/3 "2009-02-09T04:27:05Z")
My vote is thereisnosuchthing. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/4 "2009-02-09T04:46:51Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > If there **is** such a thing, of course! > > My vote goes to Sam Donaldson. > > Q šŸ˜• By what leap from logic are you defining the word ā€œbestā€? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/5 "2009-02-09T06:24:37Z")
That it doesnā€™t LOOK like if it **werenā€™t** combed over that heā€™d look like a long-haired hippie on one side. Or that it looks way better than Trumpā€™s.:rolleyes:šŸ™‚ Q ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/6 "2009-02-09T07:04:43Z")
[Chris Berman?](http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/images/chris_berman_annoying_1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/7 "2009-02-09T07:53:25Z")
Brit Dopers will immediately say Bobby Charlton, the legendary Manchester United and England footballer of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Another 70s footballer, Ralph Coates (Burnely and Tottenham Hotspur), ran him a close second. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/8 "2009-02-09T07:55:43Z")
There actually is such a thing. On an episode of Penn and Tellerā€™s Showtime show \Bullshit\, they showed an old stage magician style his comb over. He had no hair on top at all, just the standard horseshoe-wraparound hair - but it was about a foot long. Of course it was died Jerry Lewis black. Anyhow in a time-lapse footage piece he styles and sprays this foot of hair into a believable pompadour. It was amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/9 "2009-02-09T07:58:02Z")
Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/10 "2009-02-09T08:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > There actually is such a thing. On an episode of Penn and Tellerā€™s Showtime show \Bullshit\, they showed an old stage magician style his comb over. He had no hair on top at all, just the standard horseshoe-wraparound hair - but it was about a foot long. Of course it was died Jerry Lewis black. Anyhow in a time-lapse footage piece he styles and sprays this foot of hair into a believable pompadour. It was amazing. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M2ap5JznqE) ---
**Author:** ![Buford\_was\_no\_angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Buford\_was\_no\_angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buford_was_no_angel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/11 "2009-02-09T12:37:57Z")
[Benny Hinn](http://messagesfromearth.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bennyhinn.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/12 "2009-02-09T13:25:14Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M2ap5JznqE) Wow. A f\*cking work of art. I agree. It gets my vote. Can we do hair plugs next? I just met a man who had the most gawdawful plugs and it was mesmerizing. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/13 "2009-02-09T14:24:17Z")
> [@Buford\_was\_no\_angel](#): > > [Benny Hinn](http://messagesfromearth.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bennyhinn.jpg) Holy **SHIT**! That looks like it mightā€™ve been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, dude! šŸ˜ƒ Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/14 "2009-02-09T14:36:33Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Wow. A f\*cking work of art. I agree. It gets my vote. > > Can we do hair plugs next? I just met a man who had the most gawdawful plugs and it was mesmerizing. Okay, I agree with **Brown Eyed Girl** : The Great Tonsoni gets my vote as well. Regarding your hair-plug idea, hell yeah! šŸ˜‰ We were talking about comb-overs at work last night and I suggested that pubic hair might make a good plug, if they would ā€œtakeā€ :D. Anyone know if thatā€™s been tried yet? Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/15 "2009-02-09T18:00:40Z")
[Apparently yes](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/10/15475332_cdb50397f8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/16 "2009-02-09T18:19:30Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Can we do hair plugs next? I just met a man who had the most gawdawful plugs and it was mesmerizing. I bet it was like an old CEOā€™s. Apparently when they first put them in itā€™s as a big plug about as thick as a Q-Tip and then, once they ā€œtakeā€ they spread 'em out. But yeah, that clumpage is worthy of a long, jaw-dropping stare. Itā€™s like a shrubbary orchard. For comb overs I like [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69gdDAe5gI) at the 17 (and 37) second mark. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-comb-over/484999/17 "2009-02-09T19:28:17Z")
:D:D:D:D **Lieu** (and rhe rest of yā€™all) have really made me guffaw, thanks! I could use a few laughs beginning tomorrow (72 hour EEG) if you have any to share, because I will **not** be going out in public with those wires drooping off my head! That guy with the ā€œpubic hairā€ is priceless! I been trying to load a pic of my guy Sam Donaldson but havenā€™t had any luck remembering how one does that here. Can someone help me? You know what makes Samā€™s comb-over so good? Those eyes draw your attention away from it. Anyone remember the comeback he gave Bush at that press conference? ā€œBetter to have been a has-been than a never was!ā€ Oh Og, I liked to shit my pants! Way to go Sam!šŸ˜‰ Q