Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 15, 2014
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Transcript:
Man: Pest control man! Phil Slackmeyer: Oh, yes. Won't you come in? I'm glad you made it over so quickly I'd like you to see if you can do anything about the lice in my son's hair. Now, I thought I saw one scamper right in there yesterday.
This really reminds of how “serious” and political hair length was in the late 60s – so many of the olds went semi-nuts about it, way out of proportion to its significance. Part of why we grew our hair long was to thumb our noses (just to mix my metaphor!) at the older generation. I remember having people call me a “Commie” and telling me to “go back to Russia” just because I had long hair. Seems hard to believe that people got so wound up about it.
Now I have lost nearly all my hair! :-(