# Poll: Comb-over or rug? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 5, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452 "2010-03-05T18:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/1 "2010-03-05T18:53:50Z")
Does the [mayor of my city](http://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=zoom&Site=B8&Date=20100305&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=3050305&Ref=V2) have an unusually thick comb-over, or is he sporting a rug? My fellow citizens are about evenly split on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/2 "2010-03-05T18:55:36Z")
Rug. And like most men, he’d look a lot better without it. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/3 "2010-03-05T18:57:22Z")
I voted comb-over, but I think I change my opinion from one option to the other every time I see the guy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/4 "2010-03-05T18:58:26Z")
Oh boy. “Hair color so natural, only your undertaker will know.” You didn’t have an option for, “Medium-sized rodent,” so I think I’ll go for rug. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/5 "2010-03-05T19:02:26Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > I voted comb-over, but I think I change my opinion from one option to the other every time I see the guy. Too much hair for a comb-over, it’s a [del]rug[/del] sculpture. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/6 "2010-03-05T19:16:50Z")
Man, if I had a toupee like that I’d use it to dust the house. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/7 "2010-03-05T19:16:57Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You didn’t have an option for, “Medium-sized rodent,” My first thought was Gerbil. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/8 "2010-03-05T19:17:30Z")
That’s a comb-over. I met someone with that look a couple of years ago. When it fell out of place, as it often did, he looked like a bald man with a strange ponytail on the side. Has there ever been a truly bald politician or newscaster? Does Ike count? How about Ford? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/9 "2010-03-05T19:21:45Z")
Ghandi? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/10 "2010-03-05T19:25:51Z")
I am in my mid 40’s and have a head full of hair, but if I ever started to go bald, I would own it. When you go bald…go bald. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/11 "2010-03-05T19:30:05Z")
Poor Joe Sulzer. Not only is that a hair piece, but it’s a bad one. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/12 "2010-03-05T19:31:53Z")
You can’t see any scalp at the part all the way over by his ear, and you don’t see any forehead-hairline either. Both are signs of (relatively cheap) wigs. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/13 "2010-03-05T19:33:09Z")
I voted comb-over, because he could probably afford a rug that wasn’t purchased from the thrift shop in 1974. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/14 "2010-03-05T19:36:05Z")
Whatever it is, it isn’t good. :eek: I voted rug in the hopes that he can take it off at home and not have to walk around leaning to one side… ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/15 "2010-03-05T19:44:12Z")
Rug. He probably wears it as a face mask in the morning for the paper mill smell. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/16 "2010-03-05T19:44:58Z")
I’m voting comb-over, mainly because I can’t imagine anyone purchasing a rug as coarse and unflattering as that. It’s like if Ted Koppel went through a matter transporting Telepod with a field of wheat. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/17 "2010-03-05T19:49:47Z")
> [@Juliana](#): > > Rug. He probably wears it as a face mask in the morning for the paper mill smell. 🙂 Are we neighbors? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/18 "2010-03-05T19:54:39Z")
So far, the rugs out-number the comb-overs by quite a bit. I agree that it looks amazingly thick for a comb-over, but I never notice the border between real hair and fake hair that is usually visible with cheap wigs on men. If it is his hair, I think it must be teased and sprayed to achieve the volume of hair that we see. Maybe one day I should ambush the guy with a bucket of water over his head, just to see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/19 "2010-03-05T19:55:58Z")
I vote rug. My god. Does this dude not have a wife? If so, she needs to hand in her wife card for letting him go around looking like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452/20 "2010-03-05T19:56:43Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Are we neighbors? 🙂 Nope. But I was up there for several summers back in the late 70’s/early 80’s for revival and Vacation Bible School: we were at a mission church off of Chillicothe Baptist. That smell - you never forget that smell. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-comb-over-or-rug/531452.md?page=2)