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Pubic hair stuck to a urinal forms a treble clef

Cory Doctorow at 10:55 am Wed, Aug 1, 2012

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A redditor called Frankie842 snapped a photo of a public hair stuck to a urinal in a near-perfect treble clef. I once experienced something like this, back when I was roomming with Possum Man. We'd cooked a pot of spaghetti and we tried the technique of tossing a strand against the wall to see if it would stick. It landed in just this configuration and we left it up on that wall for years after.

1 in a million chance musical pubic hair (imgur.com)

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  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    My God, what does it mean?!

    • Palomino

      Stay tuned……

    • awjt

      HESHER

    • niktemadur

      I think it means we’re one step closer to proving that Boltzmann Brains may eventually occur.

      A Boltzmann Brain is a hypothesized self-aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of a state of chaos.

  • deadbot

    I can’t stop looking at it.  I don’t know why. 

    • deadbot

      I’m still looking…

  • Frode Helland

    I say that’s an ampersand.

    • Rich Keller

      It’s the ampersand from a font called “Porcelain Hirsute.”

      • http://vincenzoravina.tumblr.com/ Vincenzo Ravina

         Oh man, we need a font made of pubic hairs. Pubic sans?

  • http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

    At least we know it wasn’t a bass player…

  • Dave Faris

    Mashup banana subway maps at Disneyland wearing leather fetish masks has got to be better than this.

  • George Michaelson

    one in a million pubic hair treble clef happen many times, in a world of millions of public hairs and urinals.

    • http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

      If you put a million monkeys in front of a million urinals, eventually their pubic hair will form the entire musical works of Beethoven. (Insert “movement” joke here, too.)

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Of all the urinals, in all the towns, in all the world, your pubic hair falls onto mine.

  • Mitchell Glaser

    Are they going to sell it on ebay like a Jesus tortilla?

  • http://www.markcrummett.com crummett

    Between pubic hairs on urinals and screaming rednecks, I’m getting to be afraid to look at BB anymore. Always an adventure…

    • MB44

      Also stay tuned for “feces that resembles question mark” and vomit that looks like Jackson Pollock (the man, not his paintings).
      Seriously though, must we photograph everything?

  • ikelleigh

    That’s a damn long pubic hair.

  • wildemar

    Oh, don’t kid yourselves. Somebody nudged this into position with his bare fingers.

  • Rob Gehrke

    I hate it when that happens.

  • http://twitter.com/BoumaFootball Bouma Sport

    Couldn’t he flush before taking this picture, I can see urine EWWW

  • Brainspore

    Aw, that’s nothin’. I once dated a girl whose pubic hair looked like Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      C. 1973, my high school choir teacher invited two of her colleagues from the Boston Conservatory (of music) to come to our class/rehearsal (which must have been painful for them.) One of them, who looked a great deal like Zero Mostel, had grown the hair on the back of his head to great length, combed it forward over his bald crown and lacquered it into the shape of a lyre.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=501840650 Wayne Striggity Harris

    So unbelievably gross, yet so unbelievably enthralling 

    • http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino

      Exactly! There’s probably a German or Russian word for that too…

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I was eating breakfast.

  • Rickenbacker4001

    I ‘m picturing Cory and Possum man giggling and tossing cooked spaghetti onto a wall. Wonder if the neighbours could hear and what they thought.  :)

  • softyelectric

    I guess a time to question this. Why is there so much pubic hair in airport bathrooms? I guess any public urinals. Who is losing all this pubic hair? Why does it just fall out when someone’s unzipping their pants? I with only mild confidence can say I’ve never contributed to all this hair in the toilet. Is it old people? It’s old people, right? Old dudes specifically. 

    • Brainspore

      I with only mild confidence can say I’ve never contributed to all this hair in the toilet.

      I confess that I’ve never really been that good at keeping track of all my pubic hairs. Do you do an inventory at the end of the day or something?

      • Donald Petersen

        “Dear God, Marge.  3263827 has gone off the reservation.  I mean it was JUST HERE!!!“

      • voiceinthedistance

        Hair net, most likely . . .

        • Antinous / Moderator

          Don’t you people vacuum before you go out?

      • softyelectric

        Nah, that’s why I have only mild confidence… but the auditing company I hired supports my anecdotal beliefs…

      • http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

        Since we’re not in a Gattaca future yet, the world is welcome to keep my body hair.

  • Palomino

    Okay, I’ll go out on a porcelain limb…..no (urinal) cake jokes yet? Maybe this urinal is in MacArthur’s Park. 

    • Jake0748

       No Clarence Thomas jokes either?

  • http://unlikelyexplanations.com laurasbadideas

    Fun fact: if you’re distracted and just glancing at headlines, “forms a treble clef” looks a lot like “from a terrible chef”.

  • Robert Cruickshank

    This section should be played pp

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SVV4BXZ3NUPXI34WH3EERSF64Q Seriously

    I don’t know whether to post this on FB or throw up.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I see no significant difference between those options.

  • timquinn

    I know the artist! The amazing part is he is completely paralyzed from the neck down and does all his work using only his tongue. Amazing man, inspiring.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=541562500 Diamond John Barber

    Who’s to say that the treble clef wasn’t created in the image of a pube in the first place?

  • IamSmartypants

    If the pubic hair looked like Jesus, people would be worshipping the porcelain god.

  • LauraJ

    What a coincidence, I was struck this morning by how the hairs I had stuck to the tile in the shower resembled St. Peter reading from the list… http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/q551/DataLaur/photo.jpg?t=1343957196