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By November 17, 20083 Comments

I was just over the road at Paddy’s get­ting a hair­cut and Lance asked me if I wanted my eye­brows trimmed. Sigh.

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3 Comments

  • Alan says:
    November 17, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    I’m hear­ing you. My kids got me a set of trim­mers for my birth­day. At least now they can­’t annoy me by tug­ging on errant ear hairs…

  • Anonymous says:
    November 17, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    [quote comment=“”]I’m hear­ing you. My kids got me a set of trim­mers for my birth­day. At least now they can­’t annoy me by tug­ging on errant ear hairs…[/quote]
    One of them nose hair trim­mers will do me. And then me own chair in front of the foot­ball and someone to get me pipe and slip­pers. That’ll do.

  • Gary H says:
    November 21, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Been there. My nemes­is was the Greek guy in Chews lane MANY years ago, who came to be known, in my per­son­al lore, as “Zorba The Eyebrow Cutter.”

    These days I have my own equip­ment. So to speak.