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US man raises US$1,600 for charity by trimming eyebrows
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January 21, 2009, Wednesday
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A 72-year-old man with eyebrows so long he brushed them each morning raised US$1,600 for charity from people who paid to take turns trimming his out-of-control brows.
Some of the wiry hairs shorn from Si Burgher's shaggy eyebrows measured more than three inches (8 centimeters) long because the former jeweler's brows had never been trimmed.
Burgher's eyebrows were so long he used to brush them before leaving the house. But he agreed to have the overgrown brows tamed last week by members of the Bloomfield Rotary Club to raise money for a polio eradication campaign.
Burgher barely winced as his wife, Amy, got the first whack at the overgrown hairs.
"I don't care if they ever grow back," he told The Herald-Times newspaper. "My wife says I look 20 years younger."
Lawyers, bankers and others put up US$100 each for their turn to snip away at Burgher's eyebrows, with the money going to Rotary International's PolioPlus, which has raised US$500 million for polio eradication in the developing world since 1985.
Burgher's wife said she likes his new look.
"Beneath the eyebrows is a really handsome man," she said. "He looks like a normal person. I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts."
The eyebrow-trimming campaign started last year when Rotary Club members in the city wondered aloud what it would take to get Burgher to tame his bushy brows. Members started bidding for the chance to become snippers at the club's Christmas dinner.
Burgher said he realized he couldn't back out of the eyebrow trim because he's donated US$7,000 to PolioPlus for vaccines over the years.
Some of the wiry hairs shorn from Si Burgher's shaggy eyebrows measured more than three inches (8 centimeters) long because the former jeweler's brows had never been trimmed.
Burgher's eyebrows were so long he used to brush them before leaving the house. But he agreed to have the overgrown brows tamed last week by members of the Bloomfield Rotary Club to raise money for a polio eradication campaign.
Burgher barely winced as his wife, Amy, got the first whack at the overgrown hairs.
"I don't care if they ever grow back," he told The Herald-Times newspaper. "My wife says I look 20 years younger."
Lawyers, bankers and others put up US$100 each for their turn to snip away at Burgher's eyebrows, with the money going to Rotary International's PolioPlus, which has raised US$500 million for polio eradication in the developing world since 1985.
Burgher's wife said she likes his new look.
"Beneath the eyebrows is a really handsome man," she said. "He looks like a normal person. I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts."
The eyebrow-trimming campaign started last year when Rotary Club members in the city wondered aloud what it would take to get Burgher to tame his bushy brows. Members started bidding for the chance to become snippers at the club's Christmas dinner.
Burgher said he realized he couldn't back out of the eyebrow trim because he's donated US$7,000 to PolioPlus for vaccines over the years.
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