# Vanity, thy name is SolGrundy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2005, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733 "2005-01-26T08:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/61 "2005-01-28T06:54:46Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > I don’t get the self-deprecation from the gay Dopers here. Dude, when was the last time you had to try and get a date with a gay boy?!\* \*yes, yes, I know. For humour purposes only. But still. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/62 "2005-01-28T12:41:12Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I vote for the goatee. But my guy and I both have goatees, so I may be a bit prejudiced. > > And don’t change your eyebrows. What’s with all these anti-hair people anyway? You’re preachin’ to the choir if you’re talkin’ to me brother. I likes the hair and I think unibrows are sexy. -swampbear (why, yes, I do happen to be among the unibrowed) ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/63 "2005-01-28T16:01:02Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > You’re preachin’ to the choir if you’re talkin’ to me brother. I likes the hair and I think unibrows are sexy. > -swampbear (why, yes, I do happen to be among the unibrowed) Do you get offers from every one of your female friends offering to pluck/wax/shave your unibrow for you? It seems that way for me. Bothers me too. I’m capable with a razor just like any female. ---
**Author:** ![Poonther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Poonther](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poonther)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/64 "2005-01-28T16:11:20Z")
**Sol** I’m a “goat lover” here so I’d have to say I like you better with it. I know I’d like the way it would tickle my flesh especially in the private areas. :o ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/65 "2005-01-28T16:22:55Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > Do you get offers from every one of your female friends offering to pluck/wax/shave your unibrow for you? It seems that way for me. Bothers me too. I’m capable with a razor just like any female. When I was 16, lesbians held me down and forcibly plucked my eyebrows, so I have a little bit of a trauma around that one too. No, I’m not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/66 "2005-01-28T16:29:35Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > When I was 16, lesbians held me down and forcibly plucked my eyebrows, so I have a little bit of a trauma around that one too. > No, I’m not kidding. You purposefully set that up so that someone would feel compelled to come along and say, “I’ve **got** to hear the story behind **that** ,” didn’t you? 🙂 Well, consider yourself asked! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/67 "2005-01-28T19:16:02Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And don’t change your eyebrows. What’s with all these anti-hair people anyway? Seriously. I’m flexible on the goatee, but I stand firm on the unibrow. Eyebrows are effin’ hot, the bushier the better. That goes for women, too. Frieda Kahlo has the sexiest eyebrows I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/68 "2005-01-28T19:23:58Z")
The guy that cuts my hair (who also happens to be a good friend) always wants to trim up the unibrow. He begs me to let him do it. I tell him, touch one hair and I know through the cord on your clippers right up and through your hand. He knows I probably would so he won’t touch it. I’ve never had it plucked (owie!) but everytime somebody has trimmed it it just grows back thicker. I am such a Neanderthal! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/69 "2005-01-28T19:42:18Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > You purposefully set that up so that someone would feel compelled to come along and say, “I’ve **got** to hear the story behind **that** ,” didn’t you? 🙂 > > Well, consider yourself asked! What’s there to tell? There were lesbians, they held me down, they plucked my eyebrows. I don’t think you can get more precise than that. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/70 "2005-01-28T21:15:54Z")
Mine isn’t that bad, though… I have pretty light eyebrows. Warning - Unibrow picture [here](http://photobucket.com/albums/v321/theygoboom13/?action=view¤t=Drunk.jpg) I don’t normally look like that, though. That was the night in Germany where I bought 3 6-packs of beer and came home with 1. Bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733/71 "2005-01-28T22:00:53Z")
I’ve been on the fence over whether or not I should weigh-in on this. Most people seem to like the goat. Here’s my opinion: **With:** You look like a professor. Smart, distinguished, dependable. **Without:** You look much younger. “Cuter”, more likely to be hitting the clubs than reading Milton. **Final summation:** You’re smart enough that you don’t need accessories to prove it. Keep it off and have the best of both worlds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanity-thy-name-is-solgrundy/286733.md?page=3)