all the curls are gone

• in a turkish barber shop for 18 turkish lira a man can have his hair shampooed, cut, clipped, shaved, burnt and shampooed again.
• when john's hair was cut the barber turned his attention to his eyebrows nose and ears using, amongst other things, a cigarette lighter to singe any hairs left behind by the other methods
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  all agree it was worth the effort