This is adapted from what I sent to the CNI Newsflash back in 1999. I can't remember if they accommdated, but I asked them to put this box on the front, and the article in back. Aboubt #RickBacon.
Who’s hair is this?
Why is it on the floor?
See inside for the gory details.
Below is a webbed up version of the fun we had.
BEFORE
During
After?
Or going, going, ????
It was kind of a dare.
Barnwell Regional Publisher Rick Bacon promised out loud that he would shave his head if certain members of a local civic club donated some money to the United Way.
Unfortunately for him, those members were actually listening, and donated the money.
On Jan. 6, 1999, he went up to the PaceSetter Barber Shop in Barnwell and barber Renee Patton did the deed, as the happy crowd of United Way donors looked on and poked fun at Bacon.
“You ever had this done before, Rick?” one asked.
“”AF12807807,” Bacon replied, giving his military serial number from when he was inducted into the Air Force at Amarillo Air Force Base.
“Name, rank and serial number, that’s all I’m supposed to give, he later asked.
Another donor, David Cannon, who has helped the paper with information on a local drive to raise relief supplies for the victims of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, asked Bacon if he had a magic marker on hand.
“That way you can mark where your hair used to be, so you’ll know where to stop washing your face.”
“That’s a good one,” Rick replied. “You getting this?”
After it was all said and done, the ladies in attendance said they actually liked the way Bacon’s shorn head looked.
“I’m disappointed,” Cannon said. “I was hoping he’d look much worse than that. Feel like I wasted my money.”
Several members of the newspaper’s staff gave visible gasps when Rick returned to the office. They were surprised to see what he had done, even though it was announced in the newspaper that day.
“I resolve to lose a headful of hair for 1999,” Bacon wrote in his column, Bacon’s Bits. “The good news is, thanks to Just for Men hair color, I feel safe in predicting that my hair will grow back a beautiful shade of medium brown.”
But his hair is coming back in mixed shades of gray and something else. So maybe he needs “Just for” something else.
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