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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 Aug 01 - 03:42 PM Yup I got one too. Jock |
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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. :-) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Mr Red Date: 02 Aug 01 - 05:08 PM My view on a beard? In the mirror. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: GUEST,artbrooks@work 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.... |
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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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 !!!! |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Aug 01 - 11:02 AM Beards grow on you after a time. |
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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! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Gervase Date: 02 Aug 01 - 05:48 AM Why cultivate on your chops what grows wild and free around your nadgers? :^) Had a moustache once, but it kept filling up with strange matter, had an aversion to being waxed and eventually went up in flames when I was fire-eating (creating a blister the size of a saveloy in my left nostril). Since then I too have been clean-shaven. I'm tempted by a beard now that age is catching up and the distinguished grey look appeals, but there are too many bald patches on my face and neck so I look like a scraggy tomcat after a week of not shaving. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 02 Aug 01 - 05:29 AM Odd man out,(no change there then!) clean-shaven, the only time I grew a beard in my teens, when I had chickenpox and couldn't shave, it was such a strange mix of colours I was glad to get rid of it. For years I had muttonchop sideburns/sideboards like Noddy Holder but they're much shorter (and whiter!) now. There is a pink spot growing on the top of my head though, I'll soon look like Brother Cadfael! RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Chip2447 Date: 02 Aug 01 - 04:26 AM Joined the Navy at age 18, had to shave twice a day to make it out of boot camp. As soon as I could I grew the moustache back. As soon as I got out of Uncle Sam's yacht club I grew the beard(s). Full, fuller, ZZtop full, mutton chops, fu manchu, goatee and the gay nineties look. Now a big thick goatee, that is far more salt than pepper. I could probably take years off if I did'nt hate shaving so much. Beard and long (middle of the back) ponytail... I would claim to be an old hippie, but I'm not quite old enough to have been a real hippie... A rather hirsute Chip2447 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 02 Aug 01 - 01:20 AM I have just realised how may of the mudcatters I have met have got beards(Les from Hull,Mr Cobble,Dorries Dad and of course Bill Sables, etc) I have seen the Mudcat photos and beards seem very popular. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Oct 00 - 01:11 PM Stalin didn't have a beard! He had a mustache. Now Fidel Castro HAS A BEARD!!! I nominate Fidel as the most classic bearded man of the present era. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 20 Oct 00 - 12:03 PM I have a beard myself. I had a goatee for a while then decided to grow it from sideburn to sideburn. I do shave on the neck though, caue if I don't I look like some barefoot bastard who left his pregnant sister in the Appalachian mountains.....(where my family comes from...) Amergin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Terry K Date: 20 Oct 00 - 03:55 AM There are photos Liz, but I'm not sure the Internet is ready for such distasteful stuff yet. Cheers, Terry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Bugsy Date: 20 Oct 00 - 03:53 AM Terry - That company wasn't IBM by any chance was it? I went for an interview with them once and was told that if I wanted to work with them I would have to shave my beard off. Needless to say, I didn't get the job! CHeers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Oct 00 - 03:37 AM Oh Terry, I'd love to see you avec le fuzz..... and possibly avec le skirt too!!! Such a wonderful mind image that has conjoured, I'm going to be grinning like a maniac all round the zoo today!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Terry K Date: 20 Oct 00 - 03:31 AM I grew my beard when I was 19, as soon as it would grow properly. It was a terribly bohemian thing to do in those days - people would say how brave I was - BRAVE??? Many years later, I worked for an American company in London and was asked to shave it off as it didn't fit the clean-cut American boy image. I was told that I could keep it if I wanted to, but whenever client contact was required, they would send someone else. As at the time my client contacts were in various fun parts of the world, it seemed an appropriate time to shave it off - sold my soul! When my wife first saw me sans beard, she said "Ugh, it's awful". You have to think a little about the way she phrased that. But only a little. I later left the company (though not the wife) and grew it again. Then last year I was at a formal function in Bali, for which they had tailored me Balinese evening dress. This consists of a jacket, two skirts and a headband. I was down to "designer stubble" by then but simply couldn't relate wearing both a skirt and a beard so off it came. No, the beard. I now wet-shave every day and find it quite stimulating, due to the various modern unctions available. How long it will last I don't know. Cheers, Terry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Melani Date: 20 Oct 00 - 02:29 AM For the record, beards are cool--on guys, anyway. I once had a Frito Bandito paper moustache... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: GUEST,Mike Ireland Date: 19 Oct 00 - 05:13 PM Does anyone have a rough male/female breakdown of the number of people who usually contribute to the Mudcat? (I don't mean lurkers) Cause roughly 80 odd males - oops again I should have said people :-) who use the 'cat' have beards - it must be a high proportion of regulars. I bet many more bearded 'catters' have read the thread and not dipped in. I wonder what this says about the sociological makeup of male 'Catters' or would it be 'Folkies' in general. Have beard will like music etc etc. I must confess I've shaved three times in 30 years - each time was for a job interview - got the jobs then grew the beard again. Have this one 25 years. My wife says I'm better looking hidden behind the beard. Mike |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: GUEST,John Leeder Date: 19 Oct 00 - 05:12 PM I've had my beard without a break since 1967, which is tied for the earliest date I've seen on this thread. My wife has never seen my face clean-shaven (and, happily, has no desire to). I was about 90 pounds lighter in those days, too, so I don't really know what my face looks like now, either. People at the time assumed it was a lifestyle statement, but it wasn't -- I just hate shaving, and grew a beard as soon as my (then) conservative profession would let me get away with it. (I'm no longer a teacher, nor are teachers as conservative as they used to be...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: mousethief Date: 19 Oct 00 - 05:09 PM Hee hee hee! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: SINSULL Date: 19 Oct 00 - 05:05 PM mouse...Behave! or I'll set the 'Cat loose on ya. Naemie, In the words of Virginia Slims "You're not getting older, you're getting better. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: mousethief Date: 19 Oct 00 - 05:01 PM Oh, and Frieda Kahlo...
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Naemanson Date: 19 Oct 00 - 05:01 PM I have to admit to a certain amount of grey in my beard. I'm not sure where that came from. Aren't you supposed to grey up when you get old? I ain't old. Some of you guys may lay claim to old but hell, I'm only 48 fer cryin' out loud. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: mousethief Date: 19 Oct 00 - 05:00 PM ... Golda Meir ....
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: WyoWoman Date: 19 Oct 00 - 04:53 PM I wax. Yup, just dip my face in that pan of hot wax and eeeeeeeeyouch! Almost as good as Chanteyranger's duct tape condom/bikiniwax combo ... ww |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: SINSULL Date: 19 Oct 00 - 04:41 PM Well, Seamus, it beats having dark on the outside and grey up the middle. Then it might look like a skunk. Stalin, Rasputin, Blue Beard, Charlie Manson... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 19 Oct 00 - 04:35 PM Jesus Christ, Santa Claus, Che Guevara, Pete Seeger... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Irish Rover Date: 19 Oct 00 - 04:25 PM No sorry Mousethief that's upper Yah sure! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: mousethief Date: 19 Oct 00 - 04:17 PM I thought it was a person from the cold half of Michigan. Shows how much I know.
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters From: Irish Rover Date: 19 Oct 00 - 04:02 PM S.O.S. you know spelling errors! a thing uppys care about. Folkys just comunicate. |