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From: bhayes@cascade.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Hair growth
Message-ID: <300@cascade.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 19:14:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 19:14:59 1987
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Reply-To: bhayes@cascade.UUCP (Barry Hayes)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory
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Keywords: hair grow cut shave follicle
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In article <1215@cci632.UUCP> mark@cci632.UUCP (Mark Stevans) writes:
>[...]
>My hair follicle model counters the beard myth: many people believe that
>if you shave, your hair grows faster.  I, personally, do not think so.
>					Mark Stevans
>					cci632!mark

I cannot explain the "beard myth", but do believe it.  Several years
ago, I had the honor of being selected to receive a hernia and its
associated operation.  Only minutes before the operation I saw, through
a cloud of Valium, my surgeon quickly shaving my groin.  But for the
Valium this might have been upsetting.  After the operation, through a
cloud of pain, I saw that he had shaved only half my groin.  To this
day the hair grows thicker on that side.  This observation has been
confirmed by a few independent witnesses.  [Sigh.]  

  Barry "you want me to lift a WHAT?" Hayes