Jack Applin sends this in: “She wants the goose cut that’s so popular with the kids these days?”
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When I look up “goose haircut” what it shows are mostly pretty similar to what has been called the “broccoli” cut — maybe with a female/male differential but not distinct — close-cut sides and curls piled up on the top.
So… not like the goose picture she offers, which looks just shaved.
Maybe, as sender Jack Applin suggests, that’s her way of saying “goose cut please” and it doesn’t matter if it matches what Google thinks that means. Or the joke is simply in offering a non-human reference picture.
That looks like an ostrich to me. No clue about the intended joke, though.
I see a lot of weird haircuts these days. It’s what you get living in a college town I guess. I have no idea what any of them are called. Back in my day I’d get grief just for having it down past my shoulders. (When I had hair, that is.)
Goose?! I can’t even figure out the armless sweater.
So she wants her hair cut like Clarissa Flockhart’s. Is that so unbelievable? I don’t see a joke.
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Seriously though I have no idea what the goose means. I love the facial expressions in the strip though.
@Downpuppy (4): That’s a barber’s cape or hair cloth.
Probably a towel since it’s being done at home.
But I agree it’s an ostrich not a goose. Not that that helps.
billr – When we were in college husband had 1970s long hair – not shoulder length but long, straight hair. He also happens to be pigeon chested (he has small breasts). He liked to wear sweater shirts (especially a gold and black wide striped one which sticks out in my mind. We were in a creative writing class together and (this being the early 1970s when long hair on males was becoming common) I was not sure if he was a he or a she. He on the other hand was impressed that my sister had a magician at a birthday party – this picked up from a piece I wrote.
Turned out that he had a girl friend who was also an editor on the yearbook as was I, so we saw each other outside of class also. She, as am I, was Jewish so things were not going well between them as her father was rather unhappy with him and chased him down the street calling him a name for non-Jewish men. (My parents were not happy with this either, but liked him enough to ignore it – and I don’t think that any other guy would have been/is as respectful to my parents as him.)
We shared a love of movies – new and old – and started going to the movies together and often with other friends.
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When I look up “goose haircut” what it shows are mostly pretty similar to what has been called the “broccoli” cut — maybe with a female/male differential but not distinct — close-cut sides and curls piled up on the top.
So… not like the goose picture she offers, which looks just shaved.
Maybe, as sender Jack Applin suggests, that’s her way of saying “goose cut please” and it doesn’t matter if it matches what Google thinks that means. Or the joke is simply in offering a non-human reference picture.
That looks like an ostrich to me. No clue about the intended joke, though.
I see a lot of weird haircuts these days. It’s what you get living in a college town I guess. I have no idea what any of them are called. Back in my day I’d get grief just for having it down past my shoulders. (When I had hair, that is.)
Goose?! I can’t even figure out the armless sweater.
So she wants her hair cut like Clarissa Flockhart’s. Is that so unbelievable? I don’t see a joke.
. . .
Seriously though I have no idea what the goose means. I love the facial expressions in the strip though.
@Downpuppy (4): That’s a barber’s cape or hair cloth.
Probably a towel since it’s being done at home.
But I agree it’s an ostrich not a goose. Not that that helps.
billr – When we were in college husband had 1970s long hair – not shoulder length but long, straight hair. He also happens to be pigeon chested (he has small breasts). He liked to wear sweater shirts (especially a gold and black wide striped one which sticks out in my mind. We were in a creative writing class together and (this being the early 1970s when long hair on males was becoming common) I was not sure if he was a he or a she. He on the other hand was impressed that my sister had a magician at a birthday party – this picked up from a piece I wrote.
Turned out that he had a girl friend who was also an editor on the yearbook as was I, so we saw each other outside of class also. She, as am I, was Jewish so things were not going well between them as her father was rather unhappy with him and chased him down the street calling him a name for non-Jewish men. (My parents were not happy with this either, but liked him enough to ignore it – and I don’t think that any other guy would have been/is as respectful to my parents as him.)
We shared a love of movies – new and old – and started going to the movies together and often with other friends.