"Sometimes, I have nightmares about lice."
Posted on 08/01/2007 12:26:25 PM PDT by Squidpup
China's hairiest man, a wannabe pop star who calls himself King Kong, wants to carry the Olympic torch on its journey to Beijing in 2008.
Yu Zhenhuan, from the northeastern province of Liaoning, told the Xinhua news agency that his fame and extreme hirsutism qualified him to be one of the 21,880 people who will carry the torch on its roundabout, 85,000-mile voyage next year.
"It would be a great honour to join the Olympic torch relay," said Mr Yu, a 30-year-old rock singer who was recently deposed as the world's hairiest man by a pair of Mexican brothers. "The Olympics belong to everyone — the common people and those with abnormalities included."
Born with hair growing all over his body, except for the soles of his hands and feet and few patches on his face, Mr Yu said his life of adversity made him an ideal candidate to carry the torch, a symbol of Prometheus's stealing of fire from the gods which has been a fixture of the modern Olympics since it was introduced at the Berlin games in 1936.
"First I am a celebrity, inside and outside of China," he said, "and secondly, I think my experience in coping with a disfigurement ties in with the notion of Olympic spirit."
Mr Yu has said that he adopted the nickname King Kong not only on account of his hairiness but also because he shares the monstrous ape's "obstinacy and affectionateness". In 2004, he had to undergo surgery to remove hairs from his ears that were interfering with his hearing and he has fought his corner before, suing a carnival in Beijing for using his image without his permission.
In his current campaign, he already has the support of the Chinese gymnast, Xing Aowei, part of the men's gold-medal-winning team at the Sydney Olympics, who said: "In him, I see the perseverance and bravery of the Chinese people. I will help him with publicity and give him some ideas."
Nonetheless, Mr Yu will have to apply like anyone else to the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) for a part in the complex transfer of the torch and flame next year. The route, which will cross five continents, has already touched diplomatic sore-spots, with its intentions to pass through first Taiwan and then Tibet on its way to ascend Mount Everest.
"We welcome celebrities to apply to join the torch relay," said a spokesman for BOCOG, "but it is hard to assess his chances, as the recruitment is open to everyone."
Although hair covers 96 per cent of Mr Yu's body, he is no longer considered the world's hairiest man. He has been replaced in the Guinness Book of World Records by Victor “Larry” and Gabriel “Danny” Ramos Gomez, from Mexico, who have a 98 per cent rating. The number of hair follicles we are born with is determined by our genes. Hirsutism is caused by high levels of sex hormones and the sensitivity of follicles to those hormones. Extreme hirsutism, like Mr Yu's, is known as atavism.
"Sometimes, I have nightmares about lice."
No he doesn’t... he has recurring nightmares about velcro!
Danny said he was too young to remember how it felt being in the circus. But Mundo Campo, whose father owns the circus in which Danny now performs, will never forget. "So [the brothers] were in a cage inside, and they were sitting in two chairs," Campo said. "I told my father about it and said, 'You know, the saddest part of this is they're never going to be out of this cage, right? They are going to be in the cages forever.'" Campo convinced his father to hire the boys and train them in the circus arts. "We began working as magicians. Then I started on the trampoline, and from the trampoline I went to become a trapeze artist," Danny said. "Someday I want to work in the large circuses in order to be more popular, not with the public but with the circus people."
LOL!!!
You can smell the disaster now, can’t you?
Looks like a typical Jihadist to me. Appropriate that the term for this condition is “atavism”!
Let’s not even get into discussing waxing
She asked him why
Why I’m hairy guy
I’m hairy noon and nighty-night night
My hair is a fright
I’m hairy high and low
But don’t ask me why
‘Cause he don’t know
It’s not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
Darlin...
Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer hair
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair
I can let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home for the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for the buzzing bees
A nest for birds
There ain’t no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair
I want it long, straight and curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, steaming, gleaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Mangled, tangled, spangled
And spaghetti!
Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair’s too short
Down to here
Down to there
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
Don’t never have to cut
‘Cause it stops by itself
BUMP
LOL! - that’s his face after the waxjob
My beard grows to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair around my bare, And down the road I goes. (Shel Silverstein)
ROTFLMAO! I’d be “raging” if I were that hairy, too! LOL!
MAN I didn’t realize Muslum rage boy that hair he need good case of nair for that
They make great pets when they’re younger but it just doesn’t last long.
We finally had to turn ours over to a wildlife refuge.
ping
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