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Author Topic: Cowlicks and Weird Correlations  (Read 7989 times)

Darvi

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Re: Cowlicks and Weird Correlations
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2011, 05:13:07 pm »
Time flows differently depending on the direction of your cowlick.

Glyph is obviously a time traveller, and I am a being from beyond time.
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Re: Cowlicks and Weird Correlations
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2011, 08:22:14 pm »
No, I mean... looking at the person, or AS the person?


I've never seen a girl with a cowlick.  I wanna see one now.
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Re: Cowlicks and Weird Correlations
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2011, 08:26:35 pm »
I've been assuming all this time that it's "from above", but I cannot be sure.

Quote from: Vector on September 17, 2011, 08:22:14 pm
I've never seen a girl with a cowlick.  I wanna see one now.

Also this, and it never occurred to me before reading this post that it was the case. Hrm. Probably there's a statistical bias due to hairstyles, but even so.
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Re: Cowlicks and Weird Correlations
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2011, 08:28:07 pm »
Well, I do know that I personally seem to have bangs that go straight up whenever left to their own devices, but that's probably thanks to my horribly frizzy, curly, explosion-hair.
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Re: Cowlicks and Weird Correlations
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2011, 09:53:28 pm »
Quote from: Bauglir on September 17, 2011, 08:26:35 pm
I've been assuming all this time that it's "from above", but I cannot be sure.

Quote from: Vector on September 17, 2011, 08:22:14 pm
I've never seen a girl with a cowlick.  I wanna see one now.

Also this, and it never occurred to me before reading this post that it was the case. Hrm. Probably there's a statistical bias due to hairstyles, but even so.

It's looking at it 'from above', I'm pretty sure, from skimming through the entire text of the study. It even has pictures! :)
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