Every so often, when my husband's hair is at a certain length that makes him look like a mad scientist, he gets it cut. He refuses to let me cut it, despite repeated offers -- perhaps because I have no skills or experience with cutting hair -- so he seeks the services of a professional hair-cutter. He typically just stops in at a cheap hair-cutting place near campus.
Recently, he had this conversation with the person cutting his hair:
HC (hair-cutter): Do you want me to trim your eyebrows as well?
Spouse: No.
HC: It will take 10 years off! You'd be surprised!
Spouse: No, I like my eyebrows old and scary.
HC: Oh, you must be a professor.
14 years ago
14 comments:
Either that or he's Mediterranean.
(I'm 25% Italian, so it isn't racist for me to say that.)
My barber asked me that once. I said 'no' with similar reasoning.
Evidently, it was very annoying to my barber who has since stopped asking and instead just trims away.
She was right; it does look better.
FSP's spouse: perpetuating the stereotype of the crazy professor since 2010
Oh, so THAT'S what I've been doing wrong! I should stop plucking and shaping so that it's more obvious that I'm a professor!!
Interesting.
My wife calls my eyebrows "professor eyebrows" when they get long and shaggy.
You don't suppose a hiring committee would buy that as a reason to hire me, do you? :)
I have inherited one or two rogue / extra long eyebrow hairs from my dad. He was almost phobic about them being trimmed by a barber, and whilst I am not like that I do like them!
As I approach my mid-forties it's the every increasing number of nose hairs that I would be happy to lose......
Edward Teller is in the Professor's Eyebrows Hall of Fame:
http://www.life.com/image/50658341
I don't really understand the hesitancy to trim one's eyebrows... Shaving and cutting hair near and around one's head - but not the eyebrows?
I does look better.
My view is, I don't want someone to notice my eyebrows... Just my science and the content of my lecture / presentation / etc.... If they are noticing my eyebrows, then my eyebrows are taking away from my ability to communicate my science clearly.
My husband and I are both chemists, so it isn't anti-scientist of me to make fun of him for having huge brows. (I have them too, which means I'm a real scientist, but I take measures to control brow size.)
He shaves his head, which makes his eyebrows really pop. IT's a tip for your husband when the professor hair gets too thin.
i got a student eval once that said "its so nice for a change having a physics professor who doesn't have those big scary eyebrows"
My middle-aged professor self finds my middle-aged professor husband's professor-eyebrows cute. I think it's a good thing that we are happy being attracted to each other and not concerned that we look the way our students think we should look.
OMG!!! Andy Rooney brows/ scientist brows ... who cares!?!?! Just give in and trim the danged things and you'll look 100 % better! Wonky hair in ears, noses and eyebrows ... be gone! It's not rocket science. It's just odd and yes, obsessive (a tad) to hang onto such eccentricities. A trim DOES look better! Good luck all you hairy eyebrow owners out there!
Perfect! Anything that can strike a little fear into some undergrads is worth it! ;-)
I am quite sure that you're not a professor at my university, but this story made me doubt my certainty...
Judging by the other comments here, though, those kinds of eyebrows aren't so unique!
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