BS: Beards and Mudcatters

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 06:31 PM

I went for electrolysis


Little Neo

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Amergin
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 06:01 PM

Guest, Michael Ireland, you said you got this idea from looking at Alison's pictures from home.....are you saying she has a beard?

Matt R, forgive me if I missed something on another thread or anything (I haven't been on much in the last few days, 12 hour shifts and sleep....), but you wouldn't be the recently departed Mbo by any chance would you?

Amergin

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:57 PM

Jolen is bleach. If you saw "A Fish Called Wanda", Wanda, in the bathroom, has white stuff on her upper lip just before going to meet the judge - that's Jolen. Women got the joke more than men. Most of us wouldn't bother just for anyone.

Naemie,
It took me two weeks to get over Spaw's adolescent gropings and now THIS! And I'm out of Ambien.
More irony.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Rex
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:53 PM

Alright, I had to jump in when I saw this. When Allen and Bill stayed at EJ's during their Mudcat Adventure this Summer, I came by and after we had been visiting and playing tunes for awhile someone noticed. All the guys had hairy faces. At least for the small group there, it seemed natural. And like I've always heard, proper men always wear beards.

Rex, running for cover

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:45 PM

Seemingly, as usual, the odd man out...............I don't have a beard. Two reasons. first, hard as this may be to believe, I LIKE to shave. I always feel clean, its kinda' invigorating, just have always enjoyed the feel. I'll go a couple of days sometimes and then its really enjoyable. Yeah, I know.....weird. Sorry.

Reason TWO: By all odds I have the shittiest looking beard on the face of the planet although there may be something living underground that looks worse. Its very uneven, being heavy in some spots and light in others and it all grows at vastly different rates. Then there's the colors....that's plural...as in brown, blonde, red, black, and of course now gray. The times I've tried the beard thing, I feel greasy and look shitty. Not my bag at all.

The rest of you all seem to look Ok except for the girls, and I'm sure a few of them may have a better looking beard than I do.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Matt_R
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:40 PM

'S truth Brett. When I don't shave (which is frequently) and my hair is long (long by my standards is not the same as yours! Long in my book is when my USMC regulation high & tight has grown if for a month) I look like an OLD guy! Like someone's history professor or something. But then when I DO shave, trim the goatee down really short, and get my head buzzed, I look like I'm 16-year-old kid again (which isn't so bad, it was only 5 years ago!). Just something about being follicsome...

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Kim C
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:34 PM

Mister has a goatee-type half-beard, a style that was popular during the Civil War. He looks quite smashing with it. Lately he is entertaining the thought of trimming it down to a Buffalo Bill-type thing. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: hesperis
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:29 PM

SINSULL - you are getting GOOD at this irony stuff!

I have no beard. A very slight almost invisible moustache, but I don't think anyone but me has ever noticed it before it was pointed out to them.

hesperis, being serious.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Naemanson
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:26 PM

My beard makes me look older when it's long but younger when it's trimmed short.

I have it on good authority that women like the feeling of the beard rubbing on their thighs and belly.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: mousethief
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:23 PM

You put Nair on your banjo? What's Jolen?

Alex
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:17 PM

BU - You once said you just lost 100 lbs. When you shaved the beard?

Beards and banjos are sexy. Mine isn't. I keep it under control with Nair and Jolen.
Mary, still practicing irony.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: MMario
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 05:15 PM

My beard varies with the seasons of the year and the centuries. Of course the century I live in varies with the season of the year, so that makes sense. Currently pretty complete beard, the chin will be going naked shortly leaving me with muttonchops connected with a mustache. January will see the sideburns vanish, goatee return. August the goatee expands to cover most of the face.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: InOBU
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 04:59 PM

Well, I've had a beard for over 25 years. The other day, I was asked to pose for an advertisement for glasses for SENIOR CITIZENS! I'm in my effin fourties! The beard is white, ya see... so I did the add, then out came the razor. My wife had only seen me once without a beard. She laughed for several days, however I now look much younger, not an intirely good thing, but also folks think I have lost wieght - because they no something is different but cant place it, and in the US looseing weight is good, while an elderly friend from the slums of Limmerick thinks I have gained wieght, becuase gaining wieght looks healthy when you are from the old slums of limmerick... So, well, for what it is worth, I suppose I will have to send in a new mudcat photograph...
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Haruo
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 04:48 PM

I've had a beard off and on for years. Sometimes full, sometimes short, sometimes with big 'burns, sometimes not, sometimes with moustache like here, sometimes w/o. At the moment I have a fairly long tuft on my chin, but shaved cheeks and lips; I'm told I look "Quaker" or "Almost Amish". On the other hand, in this photo from 1892 I had huge sideburns but a shaved strip in the middle where the beard now is. There's a noticeable but not predominant amount of grey in it, whereas my head hair is almost 100% the colour of youth.

Liland

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 04:31 PM

Midchuck,

You have to be careful about those hairy ass references. I once made a wisecrack about a guy's hairy ass (which I had not actually seen, myself). He looked shocked and surprised and protested that he did not have a hairy ass.

Carol

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 04:19 PM

Red goatee here...had it for about 2 years, because I though it would look cool. My Mom disagreed, my Dad thought it looked cool...but Mom won't let him grow one(!). Had the moustache since um...when I started growing one (like 13 or something)...only shaved it off 2 times in the last 9 years (for 2 week interval both times). I twist it on a regular basis the keep it looking regal.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Sean Belt
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 04:15 PM

When I'm acting a role that requires me to be clean-shaven, I shave it off. Then as soon as the play closes, partner Amy gently demands I grow it back. She likes the look of it and as it's gotten more and more grey over the last few years, I find that I like it better, too.
- Sean

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: MK
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 04:08 PM

I just like the look of it and have always instantly regretted it whenever I've been stupid enough to shave it off....although having it makes me look about 5-7 years older than I actually am, and it's all salt and peppery at this point. I agree with Clinton that it also cuts down on shaving time. The bitchingest part of having one for me, is when trimming it, trying to get both sides to match up evenly. On those occassions where I totally mess it up (never trim it when you first wake up in the morning) I just walk around with my head cocked slightly to one side for a few days. *BG*

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 04:06 PM

For the record, I don't have a beard- or even a moustache.

When my daughter was 4, she told her uncle: I'm glad I'm not a boy. He asked, Why? Being a boy is better than being a girl! She explained: They can get a moustache, you know.

Ebbie (female)

Subject: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 03:59 PM

When my beard started to turn grey, it turned bristly, and my ex-wife said it was like kissing a dog. She also objected because it smelled like cigarette smoke. Now it's more white than grey, and I don't smoke, and I'm not married- so I grew a beard a year ago, and I like it.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: mousethief
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 03:23 PM

Cultivate? Who has to cultivate it? It grows wild everywhere. Do you cultivate Kudzu?

Alex
O..O
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Midchuck
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 03:21 PM

Whenever I see a guy with a beard who hasn't had one previously, I always ask, "Why do you cultivate that stuff on your face when it grows wild on your ass?" It's a worn-out line, but I've never gotten a good answer.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Naemanson
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 02:59 PM

I first grew a beard after I crossed the Arctic Circle the first time in 1972. I had the idea at the time that I had to earn the right to grow a beard and sailing a Navy ship along the Northern coast of Norway seemed like a good reason. The only times I have shaved it since then was for the year I worked for the USINS and once in college on a whim.

The other time was early on in my relationship with the woman who would become my wife. We were living together and she had gone to bed before i got home. As I stood in the bathroom I made a snap decision to shave and see what I looked like. I then went to bed. In the morning my wife-to-be turned over, looked in my direction and shrieked. She was in bed with a stranger. I never shved again until I went to work for USINS. They required a clean shaven face and I had to comply.

Why? Too lazy to drag a blade over my face. Or maybe it's because God put that hair there. Who am I to take it off?

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: mousethief
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 02:56 PM

I wear a beard primarily because I'm lazy (which is the same reason I wear my hair very short). It helps that it's rather traditional in my religious subculture.

Alex
O..O
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Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 02:49 PM

Having a beard beats hell out of dragging a sharp blade across my face every day like some ancient Roman poof...

And well, quite franky, without it I break out like a teenager...

{~`

Subject: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST,Mike Ireland
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 02:45 PM

Having looked at some of the mudcat users photographs, and Alisons photos from home. It caused me to pause and think?????

How many mudcatters have beards? Men that is, well in this age of equality - people? Is it only folkies that grow them - to tired in the morning to shave after a long night playing music and other night time things?

Come on own up - whats you view on beards.

Mike

Alison I've dropped you an email and you did get Billys name correct.