Perverted Conagher's Combover

**Perverted Conagher's Combover**, also known as **Dirty Engie**, is a long-running meme on TF2Tags and Tags.tf, where the Conagher's Combover item is used to tell a variety of pickup lines and dirty jokes. Believed to have been created by Lt. Col. Problem in December of 2015 and first popularized during the Colorless Times of February 2016, the Perverted Conagher's Combover exploded in popularity over the weeks prior to the return of the Unusual quality, and has remained a recurring joke since.

## Explanation

Perverted Conagher's Combover tags are quite simple: they are sex jokes and pickup lines of various levels of perversion and moral degradation, always encapsulated by the most sleazy-looking cosmetic out there: the Conagher's Combover. I mean, just look at the damn thing! The balding combover that reeks of middle age, the dark shades to help conceal one's identity from the police, and the literal *pedo-stache* as the pièce de résistance, this simple cosmetic so delightfully greasy that such jokes were practically *meant* for it.

Dirty Engie tags usually take one of three forms: a cheesy pickup line, a raunchy sex joke, or a pedophile joke. From there, they can get as vanilla or wild as the tagger can imagine. Some tags are self-referential to the tagger making them (or to other taggers), others will have disturbing implications. Really, if you want a bigger picture we suggest looking at the 69 (nice) examples provided below in the gallery.

## History

The earliest known Perverted Combover tag was created on December 13th, 2015, by Lt. Col. Problem. The tag did extremely well, racking up 48 crits. However, nobody would yet seek to replicate this tag's success. That would not come until some months later. On February 28th, 2016, Problem would post another tag using the Conagher's Combover, which attained 28 crits. What made this tag different, however, was the time in which it was posted, which was two weeks into the Colorless Times, where unusual effects and the majority of item qualities were rendered unusable due to a site glitch. The Perverted Combover tag was quickly recognized to be an easy means of getting crits during a time where creativity was at an all-time low, and several Combover trends were seen during this time.

The Perverted Combover tag would eventually evolve from a simple trend to a sitewide meme, exploding in popularity over the course of the Colorless Times. When unusuals were restored, it created a second advent of the meme's popularity, and trends using the Combover erupted once more, this time making use of unusual effects to accentuate jokes.

The meme's all-time level of popularity was from the period of February 28th through March 31st, 2016. Upon the activation of April Fools' Week 2016 and the NTF2Tags invasion event that went alongside it, the Perverted Conagher's Combover would fade into the background, but would not be forgotten. Through the remainder of TF2Tags's lifespan, Dirty Engie tags would be a common sight, cementing itself as a bona fide TF2Tags in-joke. Dirty Engie tags have even migrated their way onto Tags.tf, where they remain moderately popular to this day.

## Gallery

The alleged first Perverted Combover tag, made by Lt. Col. Problem.The highest-rated Perverted Combover, by Twelve Hour Respawn.