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Oddities from the Depths of Wikipedia: Uncombable hair syndrome. This is not a joke. There's medical textbooks cited and everything. (Via Chris Pasco-Pranger)

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So that explains it: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2302/2374107205_6394722678_o.jpg
Metostopholes

The hair is … usually silvery-blond or straw-colored.

Nuts, it could have been an explanation of Harry Potter’s hair.

Maybe Julian Assange…
Anonymous

Mags, you posted this for Mark, you can admit it!
d15724c710n

If ever a wikipedia article needed a picture…
- george57l
  
  http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=&q=boris+johnson&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB383GB383&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=lgRcTb2KBM24hAfduOXYDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CE8QsAQwAg&biw=1440&bih=685
  
  Boris Johnson – our doughty London Mayor – is a prime example.
  - IronEdithKidd
    
    While super funny, Mr. Johnson’s problem isn’t triangular hair, it’s failure to apply conditioner after shampooing. My son’s suffering similar issues at the moment due to the relative humidity in the house hovering around the 50% mark.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      My son’s suffering similar issues at the moment due to the relative humidity in the house hovering around the 50% mark.
      
      Do you consider 50% to be high or low?
d15724c710n

It’s one thing to say it’s true, and another to say it’s not a joke.
kuanes

Perhaps this explains Sean Penn’s recent hair issues?

http://gawker.com/#!5761106/what-does-sean-penn-have-against-hairbrushes/gallery/
- MadMolecule
  
  A friend of mine has hair that always looks kind of wild like those photos of Sean Penn. His girlfriend told me once, in confidence, that it takes him about 45 minutes to achieve that look in the morning.
Kevin Carson

I’m surprised the deletionazis aren’t all over this.
Baldhead

i always figured my hair to be rather uncooperative, but that sounds aweful
C White

Someone once (very drunkenly) accused me of “thinking I was better than everyone, because my hair defied gravity.” I do not think such a thing.
Anonymous

or you could have looked at old boingboing posts
http://boingboing.net/2008/06/26/uncomable-hair-syndr.html
MadRat

Wikipedia is like its own Internet all to itself and you can easily get lost in the weirdness:

The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia
http://copybot.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/the-50-most-interesting-articles-on-wikipedia/

Here are two little back alleys that are rarely seen:

Wikipedia:Unusual articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_articles

Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars [one of my favorites]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
It_Figures

I’ve always called this “CWH”. Christopher Walken Hair