Talk:Conk

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"ot" should be "to", therefore I will correct it. I hope that is not consider "vandalism."

Of course it isn't vandalism, thank you for contributing. Please feel free to keep on improving the encyclopedia. --Kuzaar^-T-C- 15:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

--68.37.9.246 10:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[[[[== i have a question what does a conk look like? aimee brown ==]]]]

The conk is a hairstyle that Byron Watson got in the book "The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963"

Charles Wrangel does not conk his hair---many African Americans have naturally thin, straight hair and don't use chemicals to relax it. Al Sharpton, on the other hand, does conk his hair (an easy way to tell is to notice the curlier, unrelaxed new growth around the edges). Kemet 21:02, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Africans may have started it

The word conk is derived from Congo. "Conked" hair is hair that has been straightened with congolene, a hydrocarbon produced from Congo copal and used to straighten hair. Africans may have invented the conking of hair. Conking is commonly known as processing or process.

HeyYallYo 16:00, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American Negroes conked their hair often

Practically every Negro barbershop in the United States in the 1950s employed one or more barbers as a "tonsorial artist" who could conk hair. There was nothing hidden, rare, or cryptic about the practice, which was exceedingly common and obvious. There were various styles and patterns of conked hair. A wavy pattern was called a "marcel." HeyYallYo (talk) 03:40, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

The Marcels was a quartet of singers that was named after that wavy style of processing. They appeared on American Bandstand from Philadelphia about 1961. HeyYallYo (talk) 05:20, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Mushroom

A conk may also be a shelf-like, typically hardened basidiocarp of a wood decaying fungus, usually a polypore. 97.115.13.144 (talk) 16:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)