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cowlick - (noun) - [its looking as if its been licked by a cow] -a tuft of hair that cannot be easily combed flat

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He was easy to spot because of the noticable cowlick on the back of his head.

One has to have hair there in order to have any kind of a cowlick problem(there). Sigh.............

1 hour ago, drpaladin said:

I see the montage left out Robert Blake. He was a Little Rascal too.

That montage only referred to the 1922 Little Rascals.

Robert Blake, then known as "Mickey Gubitosi" only started with the Little Rascals in 1939.

Robert Blake (actor) - Wikipedia

Did Robert Blake portray a role in “Little Rascals”?

I love this word. The color is wrong, okay the age too, but otherwise that could be me.

1 hour ago, drpaladin said:

Most people have cowlicks, around 94%.

Studies do show the presence of three or more cowlicks is an indicator of aberrant brain development.

I so.... want to ask 'This Question' about, presidential candidates, but know that it(politics and all) would get censored, so I won't.

What to do, what to do with cowlick? Well, there is the Hairy Ball Theorem. Seriously, there are some mathematicians out there studying hairy balls. There are probably some mathematicians out there who are doing more than just studying hairy balls.

Seriously, it all has to do with algebraic topology, that wonderful field of mathematics dealing with shapes. The theorem states that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on even-dimensional n-spheres. Wikipedia goes more in depth, but we’ll stop here because unless you’re a mathematician, you’d probably get as confused as I did, and I know enough math to do the fun stuff.

The theorem was first proved by Henri Poincaré for the 2-sphere in 1885, and extended to higher even dimensions in 1912 by Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.

The theorem has been expressed colloquially as “you can’t comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick” or “you can’t comb the hair on a coconut”.

7 hours ago, CarlHoliday said:

 ...“you can’t comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick”...

Not true, just takes some spit.