What the Sly Guy knows that others just can't relate to.

• What the Sly Guy knows that others just can't relate to. by D.A.L.U.I. on 25 Jun, 2012 14:32
• Recently I recorded the movie Apocalypse Now with Marlon Brando.  It was a great movie, a classic.  In the final scenes with Brando, who'd shaved clean for the role--he's delivering his lines and rubbing his slick scalp.  I realized unless you're one of us, it's hard to relate and appreciate what he's feeling from the physical act of rubbing his dome and what it adds to the content of his dialogue in the film.  I've thought this many times before when I see some other sly guy, on television or live reaching up and rubbing his dome--it's like you know what he's feeling.  Guys with hair or guys with remnants of hair as the result of mpb just can't know the experience.  I've seen, and posted long ago, about one reaction I've seen many times traveling.  A sly guy is at the gate, flight delay, baggage problem--some part of air travel hell hits him.  He, like me, almost immediately goes and puts his hand to his bare scalp--sort of like our own built-in "Linus blue blanket" that we always have available to cushion the blows of modern living.  
  Anyone else realized we are the only ones who really know what other bald guys are feeling when they do this?  
• #1 by Mr Jules on 25 Jun, 2012 14:42
• Quote from: saintc on 25 Jun, 2012 14:32

  Anyone else realized we are the only ones who really know what other bald guys are feeling when they do this? 
  

  
  Yes. Which is why I periodically rub my smooth head in front of others. Seems to help me think, too.
  
  Five months of being completely bald. So used to the look, that I forget that I'm bald. Though never, ever grow tired of rubbing my smooth shiny head.
  
  Showing my age here, but remember Telly Salavas as a kid. Even then thought that was an interesting look. Well I am bald. And love it.
  
• #2 by warhawk on 25 Jun, 2012 14:53
• Great post it's definitely a sly thing.
  
  WARHAWK
• #3 by Hingatao on 25 Jun, 2012 16:01
• Now that you mention it, yes! I rub my head a lot but I thinks it's just because I'm still not quite used to being bald.
• #4 by Mikekoz13 on 25 Jun, 2012 18:47
• It's a SLY thing!!!!!
• #5 by Hingatao on 25 Jun, 2012 19:46
• Mr. Jules
  
  I remember Telly Savalas. Kojak was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. Who loves ya, baby?
• #6 by Hingatao on 25 Jun, 2012 19:51
• I also remember seeing Yul Brynner in The King & I.
• #7 by buddha on 26 Jun, 2012 07:24
• Another head rubber reporting from the front. I have to say that I do this almost totally unconsciously, sometimes when I'm stressed.
  But here's another scenario. Does anyone else play bongos on the dome? I get really interesting sounds depending on the degree to which I open my mouth, changes in tone and pitch, and I can actually play a kind of Afro-Cuban rhythm on my skull. My wife says it's because there isn't anything impeding the sound getting from my scalp to my mouth. Why do I feel insulted by that?
• #8 by Hingatao on 26 Jun, 2012 12:29
• Maybe some of us can get together and form our own drum corps!
• #9 by Slyfive on 26 Jun, 2012 21:06
• So true SaintC!
• #10 by Beardman on 27 Jun, 2012 00:20
• I haven't noticed it so much myself yet, maybe I too do it subconsciously. But whenever I am thinking or stressed I always go straight to stroking my beard and that helps calm my nerves.