# Starving Artist Has Issues With Long Hair **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-has-issues-with-long-hair/502775 "2009-07-12T18:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 62
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-has-issues-with-long-hair/502775/62 "2009-07-13T00:49:08Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > I’ll do ya one better. I’m black, \*\*Mrs. Jolly Roger \*\*is white. I don’t think the 1950’s would have been a good time for us to be married. In a similar vein, my parents were told by the Catholic Church in the 1950s that they couldn’t get married and have my mother remain a Catholic in good standing because my father is a Jew. They broke up for 10 years, reunited and were finally married in the late 60s. To me, that’s a nice personal example of how the world improved from the decorous 50s to the free-wheeling 60s. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starving-artist-has-issues-with-long-hair/502775)._