THERE comes a time in the affairs of men when even the most determined back combing fails. There's not enough to cross the cranium. Yes, you're a slap-head.
Judging by recent pictures of the Patten pate, the Governor could take the tonsorial plunge and become a baldie when he returns from his holiday next month.
The politician who said the gap between him and British Prime Minister John Major was only tissue-thin now finds that even less separates his powerful brain from the atmosphere.
Our advice is: don't. The latest political opinion from London is that it's best to keep that rug however tattered it gets. In Britain, tresses ensure successes.
While in France, where Mr Patten is holidaying, a bullet-head is a passport to power. As the degarni Jacques Chirac proves.
If the Governor sees a political life after 1997, he'll keep his hair on.