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The_Tick · 07-10-2008, 11:02 PM

I don't get hair on the body.

I understand it protects your head from the harmful affects of the sun.

I understand eyebrows. It keeps the sweat out of your eyes.

The rest of it? I just don't get why it is needed.

Someone care to enlighten?

creekster · 07-10-2008, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Tick

I don't get hair on the body.

I understand it protects your head from the harmful affects of the sun.

I understand eyebrows. It keeps the sweat out of your eyes.

The rest of it? I just don't get why it is needed.

Someone care to enlighten?

TO impress the babes at the disco and provide a nice contrast to your gold neck chains.

il Padrino Ute · 07-10-2008, 11:07 PM

We're not yet fully evolved?

CardiacCoug · 07-11-2008, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Tick

I don't get hair on the body.

I understand it protects your head from the harmful affects of the sun.

I understand eyebrows. It keeps the sweat out of your eyes.

The rest of it? I just don't get why it is needed.

Someone care to enlighten?

It's a vestigial remnant from our ancestors.

We only diverged from chimps and bonobos about 250,000 generations ago.

creekster · 07-11-2008, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by CardiacCoug

It's a vestigial remnant from our ancestors.

We only diverged from chimps and bonobos about 250,000 generations ago.

Did you recently read The Ancestor's Tale?

myboynoah · 07-11-2008, 12:49 AM

To separate the men from the boys.

il Padrino Ute · 07-11-2008, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by CardiacCoug

It's a vestigial remnant from our ancestors.

We only diverged from chimps and bonobos about 250,000 generations ago.

Ha! I was right.

Gidget · 07-12-2008, 06:13 PM

Am I the only one who feels like the scientific reply to this inquiry would get rather graphic? Hair is for protection. Hair on head - to protect your face, ears. Eyelashes - eyes. Nose hair - to protect nasal passages, sinuses. Hair usually grows most where there is some kind of orifice to protect. Yeah.

Mars · 07-12-2008, 11:04 PM

I have my own personal crazy theory that hair folices don't exist in the Celestial kingdom. At least from the neck down.

creekster · 07-13-2008, 01:04 AM

The real answer is becasue without it your head and body lice would have nowhere to hide.

07-10-2008, 11:02 PM	#1
The_Tick Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 626	Body Hair...why? I don't get hair on the body. I understand it protects your head from the harmful affects of the sun. I understand eyebrows. It keeps the sweat out of your eyes. The rest of it? I just don't get why it is needed. Someone care to enlighten? __________________ Spooooooon

07-10-2008, 11:07 PM	#3
il Padrino Ute Board Pinhead Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the basement of my house, Murray, Utah. Posts: 15,941	We're not yet fully evolved? __________________ "The beauty of baseball is not having to explain it." - Chuck Shriver "This is now the joke that stupid people laugh at." - Christopher Hitchens on IQ jokes about GWB.

07-11-2008, 12:49 AM	#6
myboynoah Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Memphis freakin' Tennessee!!!!! Posts: 4,530	To separate the men from the boys. __________________ Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!! Religion rises inevitably from our apprehension of our own death. To give meaning to meaninglessness is the endless quest of all religion. When death becomes the center of our consciousness, then religion authentically begins. Of all religions that I know, the one that most vehemently and persuasively defies and denies the reality of death is the original Mormonism of the Prophet, Seer and Revelator, Joseph Smith.

07-12-2008, 06:13 PM	#8
Gidget Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: With Surfah Posts: 329	Am I the only one who feels like the scientific reply to this inquiry would get rather graphic? Hair is for protection. Hair on head - to protect your face, ears. Eyelashes - eyes. Nose hair - to protect nasal passages, sinuses. Hair usually grows most where there is some kind of orifice to protect. Yeah. __________________ I am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PaloAltoCougar

07-12-2008, 11:04 PM	#9
Mars Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Cougartown, USA Posts: 336	I have my own personal crazy theory that hair folices don't exist in the Celestial kingdom. At least from the neck down. __________________ "Enter to Learn, Go Fourth and Eighteen!" :twisted:

07-13-2008, 01:04 AM	#10
creekster Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the far corner of my mind Posts: 8,711	The real answer is becasue without it your head and body lice would have nowhere to hide. __________________ Sorry for th e tpyos.