'Combover' Engineers Given Ig Nobel Awards

[TO Kid]

BOSTON - The "combover" has long been a source of bafflement, even as it has provided bald men such as former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with valuable head coverage.

But though reactions to it vary, the combover's importance in hair history is undeniable. For their contribution, the father and son who patented this baldness-beater 26 years ago were awarded an Ig Nobel prize in engineering this week.

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The medicine prize went to Steven Stack of Wayne State University and James Gundlach of Auburn University, for their 1992 report, "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide." The research of 49 metropolitan areas concluded "that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=2&u=/ap/ig_nobels

[newscaster]

1. The Heck with Combovers

When I first met my wife, I used a brand new product to cover the thinning areas of my hair....Top Coverage. You spray it on and its supposed to match the color of the own hair.

It was summer time and our first date was a full day at Disneyland. She had never been. I sprayed my head and off we went. Around noontime, she is looking very strangely at me. I checked a mirror and found out why. The summer heat caused me to sweat and there, right before her eyes were four dark brown rivers of paint streaming down my face. My Top Coverage was melting!!!!!!

We married a year later.