BS: Beards and Mudcatters

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: smallpiper
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 10:40 AM

Some of us have beards to save the rest of the world having to look at us! Its far to scary when I shave mine off completely - currently sporting half a beard and when I do Mrs Smallpiper won't talk to me! mmmm there's an idea!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:02 AM

Beards grow on you after a time.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: pavane
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:05 AM

Mrs Pavane insists I keep it. I'd rather get rid of it, but last time I did was 1983

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST,Mike Strobel
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 12:19 PM

Yes, I have a full beard for the following reasons.

1) Old hippies never die......we just get lazy.

2) To pi_ _ my boss off.

3) To make my wife amorous.............yea...right

4) To pi_ _ off my employer !!!

5) And most important....I hate shaving !!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Jim Krause
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 01:13 PM

I threaten to cut mine off, and the look on the Missus' face is enough to make me change my mind. I still like the beard, but I've seen recent pix of myself and I'm starting to look like a geezer. Cut the beard off, and I look like Dear Old Dad.
Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: DancingMom
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 01:41 PM

I love 'em, nicely trimmed with a little salt and pepper!Mmmm!Husband used to have one, but had to shave for the Air National Guard. When he finishes this last stint I'll ask him about growing it back. S

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Peg
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:01 PM

I like a short, trimmed beard; can't stand long unruly ones a la ZZ Topp.

I am also not wild about weird hair formations except in small doses; seemed like every guy and his brother had to have a goatee in the late 90s...and now college boys doing all this weird experimenting with shaved heads and full beards, mutton chops, Abe Lincoln mustacheless beards, etc,

Also having grown up in an Italian family I don;t find the mustache only look all that attractive.

But a short beard in the Roman style, yes indeed, that often is very flattering on men...not to mention whiskers feel sexy.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From:
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:33 PM

Had the moustache for a LONG time...since spring 1970 when the (US) Army changed its rules about facial hair and our battalion executive officer called all of the junior officers in and told us he didn't want to see any of us with one. The beard comes and goes, but its been on for about 2 years now. Herself says it makes me look like Sean Connery...maybe from the neck up....

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:38 PM

Catspaws right you feel CLEAN after a shave, all the bloody beardy buggers I know you can smell them a mile off. Slan Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 05:08 PM

My view on a beard? In the mirror.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Hawker
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 05:39 PM

I do not have a beard, which I believe, being a woman is quite normal. Being dark haired though I am afflicted with the displeasure of having to regularly wax my upper lip, to avoid looking like a male Folkie! My bigger half, K has a beard, moustache AND hairy chest, infact, I have never seen his face naked! I LOVE FACIAL HAIR (on a man!)
Oh, and just for the record, I do not have a hairy chest either!
Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Amos
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 06:26 PM

Having read all the aboive, iI am now growing a beard -- 4 days and still guessing -- which will make me, also, look like Sean Connery, and which i hope to be able to wear to a formal event in Bali. Just let me know!!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Gareth
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 07:22 PM

I don't sing folk, I croak it, but many years ago as a comuter up to the City of London from Whitstable, the pain of the Wind cutting off the North Sea in December on raw cheeks prompted me to grow one. Its been off once in the last 30 years. A sponsored, public, shave for the Royal Nation lifeboat Instutute. It hurt but raised over 400 pounds.

now a days - more hair on my chin than my top.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Oaklet
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:29 AM

I don't have a beard, but my violin has sprouted grey hair around the chin rest, which gives the impression of being bearded. Anyone else got a hairy instrument? What about a cello with pubes?

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Amos
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:41 AM

Well, cellos, now, Vlad, mature veeeeery slowly. So if yours has started puberty it is probably several hundred years old. In fact it may be the first cello in history to have survived long enough to reach adolescence. They go through a period of crankiness and rebelliousness, I understand. Continued application of love and patience and endless tuning will have its rewards, and your cello will mature into a resbectable, balanced bass.

The chin hairs on your violin, however, are a different story. This is an indication that your violin has been seeing someone else behind your back. I suggest counseling.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Oaklet
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 09:58 AM

I don't have a beard, but my violin has sprouted grey hair around the chin rest, which gives the impression of being bearded. Anyone else got a hairy instrument? What about a cello with pubes?

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: SharonA
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 01:01 PM

I'm another one of those women who love a mustache and beard on a man. Kisses are lots more fun when they tickle, too! Gimme a man with facial hair, chest hair, down-there hair, and if he's bald I don't care! (I think bald is sexy too)

Stubble, on the other hand, is a no-no: causes rashes for the lady when brushed against her cheek – eek!. Stubble can be dangerous, also; I once had my cornea scratched by chin stubble (true story!).

I once had a boyfriend with a simply lovely set of facial hair *sigh* Then he went to work at a nuclear reactor, and had to shave so his face-mask would seal properly... then I found out he had no chin to speak of! :^( THEN the Three-Mile Island incident happened, and he claimed he was working at the OTHER reactor (#!) at the time, but my theory is that it was his revenge for having been made to expose his chin to the world.

SharonA

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Brían
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 01:19 PM

When I was younger I typically had longer hair and/or a beard. Now I have short hair and no beard. I can blame the short hair on my wife who seems to prefer it that way. I shaved the beard when all the gray started coming in. I find shorter hair is easier to take care of. although my appearance has changed, my values have not. i have been cornered more than once at a party by someone, based on my appearance, tried to inflame a political discussion with me and was surprised to find I was probably more left-thinking than they were.

Travelling incognito,

Brían.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Don Firth
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 01:48 PM

During the early Eighties I had a full beard for about a year. Then one Saturday morning my wife made pancakes. The third time I drizzled syrup into the thing, I decided, "Okay, That's it!" and I shaved it off. One year later, my supervisor at work said, "Hey, Don, I just noticed! When did you shave off your beard?" Very alert was my supervisor.

My general hair configuration is clean-shaven, topped with something more or less similar to the Captain Jean-Luc Picard pompadour.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: SharonA
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 02:03 PM

Oops! In my post above, I meant to say that the OTHER reactor was #1 (#2 was the one with the, um, problem)

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Amos
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 02:03 PM

The Picard pompadour!! A Classic Oxymoron!! Well-turned!

A-who-is-still-guessing-after-6-days

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Kim C
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 02:26 PM

Well, to update my original post here from months ago... Mister did trim the goatee into a nice Vandyke but shaved it all off to be more 18th century fashionable, as we were doing some 18th century events. Makes him look a lot younger but I liked the goatee. He may grow it back when it gets colder.

He's working on that Picard Pompadour, too. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 03:42 PM

Yup I got one too. Jock

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 06:29 PM

Had mine for most of the last thirty years. Hot in summer but nice in winter. Does not, by the way, totally eliminate shaving, as the edges are otherwise very scruffy looking. It comes in handy with historical re-enacting (US Civil War period). As a bonus, also hides the fact that my chin has multiplied since I last saw it.

CC

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Dorrie
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 06:47 PM

i dont have a beard!But i dont know how they could be said to be sexy!!!?!??! My dad has always had one but says he would shave it off for alot of money - that is probably why they aren't sexy to me becasue all the man in my huge family have one. My ex boyfriend had stubble all the time and he was minging so thats my beard history i hope you enjoyed it

dorrie xx

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: bill\sables
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 07:09 PM

I have had a beard since the early 60's, It only gets trimmed when my wife catches me and ties me to a chair (about once a year)I find that it insulates me against cold in winter and heat in summer.We once had sheep and after lambing we sheared the ewes, the lambs were running about for about two days searching for their mothers.
Bill