• valek879@sh.itjust.works
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      If I had to guess, it’s because women go to hair stylists and men go to barbers. This barber is like, “yo, I can cut all hair! I’m a stylist too!”

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        I feel there is a subtler joke with “stile” too but I’m not quite sure what, as I’m not super familiar with the word beyond “turnstile”. Possibly a joke on the one style of haircut he can do, whose shape evoke a turnstile? (So, what he’s himself wearing).

        In any case I like that one.

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          My take on it: he wants to advertise his styling abilities, but the typo suggests he’s never even read or spelled the word before, so his offerings are probably not great.

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      Historically the barber did medical procedures, including dental. Barber quartets were created to down out the cries of patients since they didn’t have anesthesia. I think this comic is making a joke about that, cutting hair was just one thing they did

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      I think it’s that he’s a “barber”, so he “barbs”. Also he styles (“stiles”) hair. The joke, which is a stretch, is that you know he’s a dummy from the misspelling, so the “ha ha” is that he’s that dumb and literal.