Cowlick Synchronicity

Cidu Bill on Jan 16th 2010

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14 Responses to “Cowlick Synchronicity”

  1. Rebecca Jan 16th 2010 at 06:28 pm 1

    His antennae are cowlicks!?!

  2. Brian Jan 16th 2010 at 08:09 pm 2

    I looked up “morelli” -didn’t find anything - I think some big 30’s gangster got murdered in his favourite barber-chair - might the barber have been Morelli?

  3. turquoise cow Jan 16th 2010 at 10:38 pm 3

    I thought the term “cowlick” only applied to hair sticking up on the TOP of the head, not the sides. Dagwood’s hairstyle never made sense to me, but I would never have used that term to describe me.

    Brian- There’s a series of novels by Janet Evanovich in which the main character is a woman comically attempting to be a bounty hunter while attempting to navigate her own personal life. one of the two men who vie for her affections is a cop who was once a pretty tough guy (with some familial mob ties, but it’s Jersey and so anyone with an Italian surname is presumed to have mob ties somewhere) named Joe Morelli. That’s the only place I’ve ever heard the name.

    I sort of think that there was a movie in which a guy sat down to have his hair cut and the “barber” sliced through his neck… but I might be wrong.

  4. Cidu Bill Jan 16th 2010 at 10:46 pm 4

    You could be thinking of Sweeney Todd — though the less said about adapting that great musical into a mediocre film, the better.

  5. turquoise cow Jan 16th 2010 at 10:47 pm 5

    Oh yeah, duh. I actually did see that movie, too…

  6. Keera Jan 17th 2010 at 04:17 am 6

    Ah, being licked by a cow. That brings back memories!

  7. Carl Jan 17th 2010 at 09:19 am 7

    As for cutthroat barbers, there’s always the unnamed barber in “The Lumberjack Sketch” from Monty Python.

  8. Heather D Jan 17th 2010 at 12:17 pm 8

    turquoise cow — Cowlicks can be anywhere, from my understanding. My cowlicks were always on the side of my head. I’ve never heard of it just being on the top.

    The Blondie comic is a CIDU for me, though. Is the fact that they’ll grow back supposed to be a joke?

  9. padraig Jan 17th 2010 at 12:33 pm 9

    I’ve always wondered why Dagwood keeps going to the barber so often when he always looks exactly the same coming out. Between that and Blondie’s spending binges at Tudbury’s he’s got to be on the brink of financial ruin. Maybe when the Young family gets tired of the gig they’ll just let Dagwood snap…

  10. Judge Mental Jan 17th 2010 at 03:32 pm 10

    Didn’t we have a CIDU here a few years ago where the discussion was exacerbated because some had never heard of the expression “cowlick “? I can’t locate a comic in the search, but I seem to remember that some interpreted the expression literally, similar to the character in the BC comic. It might have even an Ewww! because somebody thought it actually implied “licking a cow”, as opposed to being “licked *by* a cow”.

    I know I read this sentiment somewhere and I could have sworn it was mentioned in the context of a comic, but I supposed it could have been somewhere else.

  11. Mark in Boston Jan 17th 2010 at 03:36 pm 11

    Dagwood’s shirt button doesn’t make sense either. But I heard that Chic Young gave him his shirt button because it was faster to draw one big button than four small buttons.

  12. Lola Jan 17th 2010 at 03:42 pm 12

    I always thought that Tony Sirico as Paulie in the Sopranos looked like he had Dagwood’s hair.

  13. Morris Keesan Jan 18th 2010 at 11:21 pm 13

    #4 CIDU Bill, FWIW, Stephen Sondheim says that he really likes the movie.

  14. Cidu Bill Jan 18th 2010 at 11:47 pm 14

    I heard that as well, Morris — but with the exception of Alan Moore, they always say they like the movie, so I generally take that with a grain of salt.

    And on the offchance he was sincere about that, and still feels that way — and maybe he simply likes every production of everything that uses his music — well, that doesn’t make the film any less a piece of crap.

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