Bronislav? Is that you?
I have a combover, but I’ve had it since I was in fourth grade. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to go with something else soon, as I am now really losing my hair. It’s unavoidable, but I’d like to put off looking like a Thomas Nast cartoon as long as possible.
I used to go to church with a guy who had, for lack of better terminolgy, a “comb up from all around the sides of his head with a great mass swirled on top and bobby-pinned.”
I always imagined that should the pins fall out, the stuff would be five feet long.
Sir Rhosis
While I think the combover, is the ultimate hair faux pas, I also believed that a mullet was the penultimate.
I don’t even know how to categorize this.
ETA: and for what it’s worth, I shave my head down to stubble. SEX-AY! 
Disgusting.
As soon as I started losing my hair, I shaved my head, and have shaved it ever since. I much prefer it that way. I can’t understand those who feel they have to “save” their hair with Rogaine, Bosley, toupees, plugs, whatever. It’s gone, buddy – live with it.
How much can you expect from a man with a tattoo over his jugular?
Nah, the totally shaved head is the new combover. It’s a “fix” for male pattern baldness while adopting a “tougher” look.
Hmm. I have both.
I met a guy over the summer that had long, thick, beautiful hair – on the left side of his head. Combed over, it looked a bit silly. When it fell, it looked like the pony tail from Hell.
That’s what I have. You just need the right theme music. Somebody cue up “Shaft”.
As pathetic as they look, from across the room they do (sometimes) give a slightly better impression than a total chrome-dome. At least on some people. Close-up, they do look pathetic. Especially if the long hair is plastered in place with something, but comes loose and winds up flopping stiffly around the side its roots are from (sorry, Dad, that looked bad and I let you go to your grave believing it was OK).
Oh - I must admit that - as a girl - I actually have something resembling a combover… see, my hair is all brown. Except for one nickel-sized patch at the front of the hairline, on one side only. I call it my “bride of Frankenstein” look (only it’s only half-a-bride. What does that make me? Fiancee of Frankenstein? :eek:). Though I do color my to cover that up, if the roots have grown out, I can hide it completely for a month or more by simply parting my hair on the other side.