He was totally bald, although he had buzzed his hair off himself, since he was going to go bald anyway.

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On the other hand, if I were to go bald, I would look less like Picard and more like a Sontaran.

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The last time we saw two high profile figures engaged in an entertaining wager Microsoft's J Alllard had to sport N'Gai Croal-esque dreadlocks, and now Lyman is matching ZDnet columnist David Berlind's pledge to go bald if Zune is able to overtake Sansa in domestic sales.

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Mr. Chiklis had a tough decision: Was he going to submit to a life sentence of a scalp doily and continue on his chosen path as a leading man or was he going to go proudly, fully bald and take a different route?

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