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I think about doing that all the time. I have a persistent fear, however, that my head is a funny shape. Unfortunately, that's one of those things that you don't know about until you shave your head, you know?

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Makes phrenology easier.

Funny person. Funny shaped head. Hmm. I sink I see ein connectishun.

Quantum dandelion? No matter how many of them you dig up, in some parallel Universe your lawn is still full of them.

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Quantum dandelions: One minute your yard is free of them, the next, they're all there in full bloom. They pop into existence fully formed and ready to spread.

Also, I think it is in a Discworld book that there is a practitioner of phrenological therapy -- if the bumps on your head indicate personality traits, then you must be able to develop new personality traits by acquiring new bumps. Want to be an artist? I'll need the number 7 hammer...

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Hmm, sounds vaguely like Granny Weatherwax, but I'm not sure.

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No, if it's actually in Discworld it's a bit character in Ankh-Morpork that you see briefly in connection with either the assassins or the thieves. Perhaps an assassin or a thief runs through their shop?

I don't remember. Perhaps I made it up. That happens every now and again.

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Ah, of course, ask Google, Google points me to Wikipedia...

Terry Pratchett, in his Discworld series of books, describes the practice of Retrophrenology as the practice of altering someone's character by giving them bumps on the head. You can go into a shop in Ankh-Morpork and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection. What you actually get is hit on the head with a large hammer, but it keeps the money in circulation and gives people something to do.

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Wikipedia is full of useful information! Thank you for clearing that up for me. I often have trouble remembering if things really did happen, or if they hadn't actually happened, but I thought they should really hard.

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But if they're quantum dandelions, then they aren't REALLY in the yard until somebody observes them there, no? Until then, there is only some finite probability that any given spot in the yard does, or does not, have a quantum dandelion in it ... it is the act of observation that collapses the probability wave to a single state ...

AUGH!

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I always thought my head was the wrong shape too. Its not. Do it! Screw up the courage and just do it! Thats the only way you'll find out. If you don't like it, it'll growback.

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Well, there is also that little matter of whether or not

kittenpants and

triadruid are into having a bald girlfriend...

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I often find HTML character entities to be helpful.

I ♥ redheads.

See, it comes in useful all over.

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What makes the heart, then?

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&hearts;

Not so coincidentally, there is also:

♠ = &spades;
♣ = &clubs;
♦ = &diams;

Using & allows your to escape the ampersand and get it to display when you need to tell people HOW to make the character entity.

Plus a couple hundred others that are Occasionally Useful®

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Oh, sadly there is no "screw" character ... think of a picture of a screw (like you would buy at a hardware store, doesn't matter if it is philips or slotted) ... on a sticker about one or two inches square ...

Now picture the amount of fun one can have in a parking lot running around applying said stickers over the ♥ in all of those "I ♥ Yorkshire Terriers" and what-not bumper stickers ...

First time I heard of this was from

capriciouslass's eldest brother.

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Hrm... I live with an artist, and we own a printer. I'm pretty sure we could make that happen somehow.

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...count me in!

Owners of "I ♥ Jesus" bumper stickers beware!

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See Entities for the full list:
http://www.htmlhelp.org/reference/html40/entities/

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Aye, it's more than useful to have the accents and random bizarre characters at one's disposal. And I love that you also know of the Heavy Metal Umlaut wikipedia entry!

My first hamster from the latest procession was named Ümlaut.

I wonder how that would be pronounced, if taken as spelt...

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I think

triadruid called my attention to the Heavy Metal Umlaut entry -- it is all that I love about Wikipedia: the thoroughness, the tone of academic detatchment, the attention to detail, and the fact that the information is completely and totally useless.

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Pedantry at its best, my loverly sausage trinket of trivia saturation!

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...to an entry about Mööse Bïtes, is it? If so someonë maÿ have to bë sacked.

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...isn't that it exists, but that it's so damn big! For something so seemingly trivial they've put together one hell of an article on it.

Also- the hair. If your thirds aren't going to make you sleep on the porch for getting it chopped I'd go for it. You'll have fun feeling how suddenly light your head is, and it'll give you more reason to play around with kooky wigs. I've never really known you to dislike any aspect of playing dress up.

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That's the brilliant thing! It doesn't need to be meaningful or relevant to anything at all to have somebody write about it. In fact, those things may be better documented than the big important things. I love that.

Also, sleeping on the porch is quite out of the question in this weather. I certainly get to keep the bed, I'm just concerned that noone will want to share it with me. You know, you can wear a wig in real life if your buzzjob looks awful but not so much in bed...

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...it could also be more like having someone new and exotic in bed and all the while maintain the same comfort that accompanies being with someone you've cherished for years.

Unless you just can't stay away from the hair pulling. You weren't, as I recall, but I suppose if one of your thirds is then you wouldn't have allowed this thread to go on al long as it has.

Also- consider all the times someone has accidentally gotten tangled up in it, pulled it, or it's fallen down in your face & kept you from being as effective at doing something you had your mind on. Merits love, merits.

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In the hair-pulling arena, I prefer to be the puller (although I don't mind being the pullee), so I don't think that's a big issue.

These are my concerns, in order of importance:
1. Nobody will want to fuck me.
2. In the winter, my head will freeze.
3. Someone at my place of employment will get shirty about it.
4. My hats will look stupid on.

I'm pretty sure that 1 is not as big a deal as I might think, but the other three are pretty valid.

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