Great Combovered Eagle: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Old Dickens (talk | contribs) (adventures in hairdressing) |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
==Annotation== | ==Annotation== | ||
Presumably a reference to (and dig at?) the {{wp|Bald_Eagle|Bald Eagle}}. For those for whom English is not their first language, a {{wp|Comb_over|combover}} is an embarrassingly terrible hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area to minimize the display of baldness. (This was the simple forerunner of the comboverundersidewaysdown popularised by an American real estate developer turned politician) | Presumably a reference to (and dig at?) the {{wp|Bald_Eagle|Bald Eagle}}. For those for whom English is not their first language, a {{wp|Comb_over|combover}} is an embarrassingly terrible hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area to minimize the display of baldness. (This was the simple forerunner of the comboverundersidewaysdown popularised by an American real estate developer turned politician). Life does indeed take its cue from Art. | ||
[[Category:Discworld Flora & Fauna]]. | [[Category:Discworld Flora & Fauna]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:38, 15 February 2018
A high-flying bird which, according to Fletcher's Avian Nausea Index, is potentially capable of annoying a lot of people all at once.
Annotation
Presumably a reference to (and dig at?) the Bald Eagle. For those for whom English is not their first language, a combover is an embarrassingly terrible hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area to minimize the display of baldness. (This was the simple forerunner of the comboverundersidewaysdown popularised by an American real estate developer turned politician). Life does indeed take its cue from Art..