Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 19, 2023

Hair-edit ary…..

Why go back to just your great-grandfather, Cosmo? Tell the Doctor to send the bill to your ancient dinosaur ancestors. Your Doctor won’t fuss with them if they’re still around, maybe making movies.

Maybe Cosmo can claim descent from a powerful Bald Eagle. Not that Cosmo could make any eagles on his golf course.

Cosmo can probably find a hair remedy on the Internet—from someone hawking a bill of goods!

Just don’t go to a duck doctor. They seem to be all quacks.

Actually now there is something that can be done

At his age, there are usually bigger things to worry about than a bald spot.

Genetics effect every member of the family…mothers and fathers, brothers ancestors.

Actually, males will have the hairline of their mother’s father. Sex-linked gene.

BIRDS have bald spots??? I guess when Molting.

Sorry, bald spot is heridtarily from female line, so sent it to my great-great-grandmother…

I never guessed Cosmo was a Bald Eagle!

Shallow roots

Forget it. A dead bird don’t need no bill.

Just remember Cosmo, grass doesn’t grow on a busy street!

So Cosmo suffers from inadequate coverage? Maybe a toupee will help.

I got both of my grandfathers’ hair types: as a kid, my hair was so thick it jammed the barbers’ clipper with every haircut (really Painful). Now that I’m old and my dad’s dad’s hair has thinned away, my mom’s dad’s hair is still going strong. It still covers everywhere, but no longer jams the clippers, thank goodness,

You get the bill, Cosmo. Any complaints you have, you take them to dead great-grandpa (don’t forget to bring some flowers).

As for me, I grew up with an intelligent and dignified father who lost his hair when he was young, long before I came on the scene (long before he met my mother, too). I never saw him give it a second thought, so when I grew up and started losing mine in my 20s, it didn’t bother me either. Thanks, Dad.

If Cosmo is going bald he sure has a pretty feathery way of showing it.