The food-in-teeth dilemma, smudged lipstick syndrome, missing-a-belt-loop quandary and sliding toupee misfortune are similar predicaments.

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Star Trek's Captain Kirk offers the best visual treat, watching his toupee fly off from the force of a good thwack!

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He seems to be as energetic and hard-working as he was in the 1980s, and looks almost as youthful (thanks, in part, to ditching his ghastly toupee).

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Perhaps they see simply an old man, further over the hill than Clint Eastwood (a mere 68, compared with 74-year-old Mr Heston) and with a ridiculously poor toupee.

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" "How much did you spend on that bad toupee?

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You may have seen Mr. Oreck in TV commercials over the years, comically demonstrating the power of his vacuums by sucking a toupee from his scalp or bowling balls from the floor.

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"I wasn't a toupee guy, " he said.

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