crazychicken, i am sorry you are wrong. lothiriel i think you are on the right track! you got the letters spell haircut, and he should go to the barber's who's own hair is not neat. but, he wants his hair neat so the reason for going to the messy barber is that there are two barbers in town and they cut each other's hair. that is why i captitalized two. so that means the barber with great hair cut had the barber with a bad hair cut cut his hair. so the messy barber was actually cut by the clean barber and the messy barber's hair was cut by the clean barber. ok lothriel it is your turn!