BS: Beards and Mudcatters

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Naemanson
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 03:56 PM

Uppy?

I've heard of YUPPIES and DINKs. What's an Uppy?

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Irish Rover
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 03:21 PM

I have a beard and handlebar moustach cause I want to! reason 2 uppys shave and are slaves to the establishment I'm not. I am a folky and I like it. 3 Ilike women who like men with beards. with the beard I command respect with out it I'm just another Uppy!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Naemanson
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 02:05 PM

My wife, now ex-wife, used to say that shaving the beard changed my personality. Any of you encounter that? Feel free to talk to friends and family before replying. This may bring you closer to them.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: selby
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 01:50 PM

I grew a beard because it was a handy place to keep bits of food that missed my mouth then I could rescue them later and keep the hunger pangs off Keith

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: momnopp
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 01:35 PM

Give me a hairy man and I'm a happy woman. . .

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST,Seamus Kennedy on the road
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 01:23 PM

Had a goatee for 33 years. It covers my triple chins very nicely. It's strating to grey on the outsides, while still dark up the middle, so folks tell me I look like a badger. Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Mooh
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 12:48 PM

I've taken it off once or twice, and cut it very short a few times but I've had a beard most of my adult life. I've never liked shaving nor the time it took, so now all I do is trim it about once a month. I generally wear it kinda short, but not always. Grooming was never my strong suit. Even the one time I shaved my head I didn't shave my face. I suppose my character is reflected in my grooming habits, and that's just fine. I don't think it has anything to do with my musical interests, except to admit that less time shaving may mean more time musicfying. Hmmm...Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson at work
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 12:41 PM

Clean shaven all my life, so far. I learned that a number of people dislike men with facial hair on sight, and I figured I could give people real reasons to dislike me so why go for the fake ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Jim Krause
Date: 19 Oct 00 - 12:15 PM

Cuz it grows there

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 10:30 PM

How about that crazy band ZZTop, with the 2 guys with 5 foot long beards, and the one guy with no beard at all, whose surname is Beard...talk about a weird trio!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Banjer
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 08:06 PM

I've had my beard since I got out of the Army. I was so damn tired of always adjusting my looks to fit the damn regulations! I swore I would never again be without a beard and I have managed to keep that vow for almost 32 years now! I often get asked how long I have had my beard and my stock answer is that I was born with it, and it tickled the piss out of Momma!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: rangeroger
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 08:01 PM

I've had a beard since I got out of the Navy in"69.Except for when I went to work at a ski resort in North Idaho in '91. Their dress code forbid beards but did allow me to keep my mustache.It never made sense to me why I should go out into freezing extreme weather with a bare face.

This state of affairs went until someone filed and won a lawsuit against the Hagadone Hospitality Corporation for their ban on beards. Seems they had been headhunting for this guy and really wanted him, but told him after he was hired he would have to shave his beard off.The upshot of it was, I could grow my beard back.Only thing was it came in greyer than it had ever been before.

rr PS. We had a standing joke in our area that Idaho was an acronym for I Do As Hagadone Orders.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 07:46 PM

I have a beard because I have NO chin. The last time I shaved (around 25 years ago) I discovered that my chin had receded to the point where it was right up under my lower lip. I'm afraid to shave again for fear that there would be no chin whatsoever.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 07:21 PM

I always thought Hesp was female, and I was sure LH was male but then I read the above post where Hesp couldn't grow a decent beard and my confusion grew in leaps and bounds. I'm glad it is clarified.

As I say at the office. Please don't try to confuse me. It is no challenge at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 06:24 PM

Christ! I am sooo embarrassed!!! We have been rolling around on the floor here, laughing to the point of sheer total idiocy and hyperventilation. I can't keep up with this damned cookie business. The fact is, Hesperis is even less capable than I of growing a beard, which is not surprising. She has trouble even growing a full mustache.

Now I DO know who starts these stupid rumours...I do, by forgetting to change the flippin' COOOKIE!!!

Sheeesh.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: hesperis
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 06:16 PM

Little Hawk.......!!!!!!!!!

GET OFF MY COOKIE!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 05:42 PM

So the irony lessons are working out huh?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: hesperis
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 05:24 PM

Spaw - I have suspected for some time that we were kindred souls...now it is confirmed.

I like to shave. It feels neat afterward, and looks clean.

And like you I am incapable of growing a decent beard. It comes in all motheaten and full of holes...a truly wretched excuse for a beard. Not that I ever wanted one anyway...I always liked Romans and Indians, and they generally did not have beards at all, with a few exceptions, like Agrippa.

I also heard once that all serious Dylan fans are middle-aged guys with beards. Not true!!! No beard on me, and I'm as serious a Dylan fan as you can find anywhere. I don't know who starts these stupid rumours...

So, Spaw, you are not the odd man out. I'm right there with you.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: bflat
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 05:22 PM

Liz, like you,I like hairy chests...oh,baby. But the truth is never had one to mess with. I can't believe I'm being so vulgar at 5:23edt. It isn't even the cocktail hour.

bflat

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Kara
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 05:00 PM

I have no beard and never have had.My Dad always had one so it's not hereditary.
Kara

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Ely
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 04:53 PM

What?! How can anyone resist a handlebar moustache??

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: StandingBear (inactive)
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 03:28 PM

Liz, you like a beard? I am surprised that there are so many women that do. My wife is so ambivalent; she can't decide whether she can get used to one or not. Planning on growing one back anyway. I have run the gamut, from goatee and shiny bald head to middle-of-the-back long hair and a full beard. One of my favorites is the Wyatt Earp look, the HandleBar. She can't stand it. Oh well, I can put up with her grumbles a lot longer than she can put up with the handlebar. Razors suck.

Peace on you,

'Bear

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Ely
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 03:12 PM

I don't have a beard, either, but I'm sure I would if I were a guy (I'm lazy enough--I once went six years without a haircut. Really bad idea. 1 1/2 inch split ends).

My dad's had a beard for 30 years. He had to shave it once to wear a gas mask while doing field work for his employers and my mother was so bothered by it she wouldn't speak to him until it grew back. He's a handsome guy but doesn't have quite enough chin, so he looks better in a beard.

Personally, I like beards. I guess it ultimately depends on the guy, but I've always been a fan of facial hair.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 10:38 AM

being 'divorded' sound ominous to ME!....why, I'd probably rather be divorced!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 09:42 AM

I've had the full set for close on 30 years and would be instantly divorded if I removed it. There's a lot of 'silver in the stubble' these days, but as they say

" A kiss without a beard is like an egg without salt"

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: LR Mole
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 09:36 AM

I've worn a beard since 1971, which fact once caused a student to observe, "Your beard is older than I am".Thanks, I thought. I shave a razor-width between sidetap and 'stache every day to pretend I'm groomed, but I'm probably the only one who notices. It also reminds me of a friend's father, a fine old Dane, who passed before I could get to know him better, and who razored the same vertical space.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 06:55 AM

I used to have a beard in my handbag, it was made of 100% nylon, which was extremely good for chafing faces. I did not wear it permanently, only when requested. It seem a little strange now to think about it. I will have to look out for it and wear it at the next UK gathering.
Patrish

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: MudGuard
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 06:31 AM

I wear a beard since I finished my army duty - I am just too lazy to shave (apart from the danger I am in if I use a sharp knife in my face before getting really awake).

I think about changing my Mudcat name from MudGuard to MudBeard.

MudGuard/MudBeard

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 06:02 AM

So that's another strange thing I share with 'Spaw!
My beard is also a strange mixture of colours so I shave. Plus I don't want to obscure this noble profile, this peaches and cream complexion... (I can get away with this as I haven't posted a Mudcat photo!)
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 04:01 AM

Maybe you're right, Spaw....but there's only one way to find out:

OASIS SUCKS!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST,Mike Ireland
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 03:38 AM

Ref above from Praise.

So when she woke after the operation someone had written on her inner thigh - sorry I had to mow the lawn.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 03:01 AM

!!!!!

Naemanson, it took me two posts to see why you would say that hair is God-given! LOL!!! Really got me there!

Troll, THANK YOU, best laugh all day... that [better not to know] line, LOL!!

Rich, anecdotes? How 'bout a joke? Green haired punk rocker girl goes into hospital for an appendectomy. Goes under the anesthetic. They find she's dyed her southernmost, umm, beard... thatch??... green as well.

Sorry, you'll hafta PM Hardiman to get him to post the punchline. I'm a lady! No thanks to him!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 02:19 AM

Oooooooooo all these hairy men, so few airmiles.....

I love beards, all beards, any beards, just love em.... only ever been out with 3 guys who didn't have beards, and that's cos 1 was only 15 and at a posh public school (first love, ah..... sob sob....), 1 was completely bald (but oh, what a hairy chest....) and the other was a toy boy who was still on the bumfluff.....

Chests are my other thing. Hairy chests. It's all Sean Connery's fault. Saw him in Thunderball when I was 11 and just never felt the same about chests again.....

And no, it isn't because I have one. Ask Skipjack....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:52 AM

Wait a minute...back there did 'Spaw apologize for being weird? Isn't that like winter apologizing for being cold?

Actually, 'Spaw, I know what you mean about shaving. I grew a beard when I moved to Oregon in 1982, because I wanted to look like an Oregonian. Shaved it in 1989 when I did a singing workshop with Susan Osborn and it felt like I was entering a new age. (Little did I know...) During the next few years I used a shaving brush and Kiss My Face soap in a Mexican mug, which probably had lead in it so I didn't drink from it. I really enjoyed that ritual.

The beard came back when I moved back to Oregon in 1991 after getting married. Then after one of our first really bad fights I decided to shave it as a symbol of my determination to be a new person (back when I was still convinced that all the troubles in my marriage were my fault). Only thing is, I had a two-year-old daughter at the time, who spent the next 3 days going around saying "Daddy scared me!" During that time, though, I made my first and only entry onto the stage.

Now, though I live in a place where it's usually between 70 and 85 degrees year round, I'm still hairy, though all the reddish threads among the brown have turned white. And in case you missed it, that was an oblique reference to an old song, thus qualifying this as a musical thread. So there.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Jimmy C
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 01:34 AM

I grew a full beard when I was 24 and have had one ever since, although it's now a goateee. (helps eliminate some of the whiteness). At my wedding( 32 years ago) an aunt of my wife threatened to boycott the mass because I looked like a hippie, she would only attend if I was clean shaven. She sure missed a great wedding.

I don't know why I originally grew one, I may have been under the influence of "The Dubliners" at the time and being a banjo player I wanted to look like a folksinger, although even without the music I suspect I still would have grown one.

I did shave it off about 7 years ago but my wife insisted I grow it back, which I did.

There was story about George Bernard Shaw who was shaving one day and a young boy asked him why he shaved, he apparently could not give the child an answer, so he threw the razor away and never shaved again, I believe this is a true story but cannot vouch for it.

My beard is as much a part of me as my hands, eyes and ears, I guess I'll just keep it.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Hotspur
Date: 18 Oct 00 - 12:17 AM

My dad has practiced a semiannual ritual ever since i can remember: At the autumnal equinox, he starts growing a beard for the winter months. On his birthday, April 13 (or sometimes on the vernal equinox if he's feeling lazy) he shaves it off for the summer. Cool in summer, warm in winter--makes perfect sense to me, although the first time I see him after he shaves is usually a bit of a shock, and makes me think of Mr. Pickwick...

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: sophocleese
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 11:45 PM

Well I've never had a beard but at the age of 30 I decided to have a Mohawk cut. So I spent a summer shaving my head, not an electric razor by the way, and learning to do it by touch without looking in the mirror. One day I decided that since I never bothered to shave my legs why the hell was I wasting time shaving my head. So I grew my hair back. I sympathize with anyone who grows a beard because they hate shaving.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Troll
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 11:30 PM

I have a goatee. It is mostly white. I grew it because I wanted to and if I ever decide to shave it, I will.
My Wife complained about it so in 1996 I shaved it off as a Christmas present. She doesn't celebrate Christmas but I do. Anyhow, two days later she asked me to grow it back because "You don't look like you". She never did say who the hell I looked like and I never asked. There are some things that it's just better not to know.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Naemanson
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 11:12 PM

Hey Sinsull, life has to include the occasional adolescent groping. And what is Ambien?

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 10:44 PM

lessee if this will work...Ferrara (Rita) & I were at a wedding Sunday, and I posted pics of it....if this LOOOONNNGGG link works, here I am with wife and muttonchops!...(I have tried several times to let it ALL grow, but there is one area that wont grow right and looks lop-sided, so I started doing this 30 years ago...),,,and just in the last year have even quit cutting hair...and THIS is the first time I have worn this suit in 10-15 years!

Bill D and grey whiskers

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: ddw
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 10:09 PM

Rather attached to a beard myself. Grew my first one in 1964 after I got the OK from my squadron exec, but the squadron commander made me shave it as soon as my leave was over.

Grew it again in 1966, shaved it off for one day in 1968 (I was in a weddng party and the bride's mother told me it looked "dirty") and I've had it ever since. My wife has a fit if I threaten to shave it off — which I sometimes do because it's mostly white now and makes me look my age.

david

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Bugsy
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 09:40 PM

I've always had a beard (since I was 20 that is) but just recently I've had this strange yearning to start shaving again, but the wife told me she'd leave me if I got rid of the beard. So I'm continuing to shave the head daily instead. Boy it feels good!

CHeers

Baldy

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 09:31 PM

Gee, I'm glad you shaved harpgirl. I hate to see a woman deemed unrecognizable by facial hair. I've seen your picture and you must have done a good job on the electrolosis........Now if you looked liked somebody, say maybe Kendall, who looks like a complete goof, then maybe the beard would be OK, although the photos of Kendall with a beard aren't much improvement. If he had a cigar in his mouth, he'd look like Lassie taking a dump.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 09:22 PM

I usually star a beard in late September and save in April. It just seems to got that way. During the summer I might get lazy and go a little while without shaving. The one big exception is I pretty much always shave fo funerals and viewings. (Sure enough, if I have to shave in January or February for a funeral I know it's gonna get 10 degrees colder and the wind's gonna blow harder than it had been all winter.) A friend of mine a couple years ago saw me clean-shaven and asked "Who died?". It was intended as a joke but I had actually been to see somebody laid out earlier that day.

Ok, enough morbid stuff. Somebody tell a nice beard anecdote.

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 07:21 PM

I never grew a beard. I just stopped shaving and the hair kept growing. Sometimes I trim bits off the end.

Nobody ever seems to ask why people grow hair on the top of their heads instead of shaving it off every day. Some people do just that, and good luck to them, but most of us don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Nathan in Texas
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 07:12 PM

I wear a beard because it makes me look like a folksinger. Same reason I wear a Greek Fisherman's Cap.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: Rollo
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 07:04 PM

Men with beards have to hide something, they say. Well, I hide my double-chin. and you?

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: harpgirl
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 06:55 PM

When I was 46, I grew a beard. Had it for 20 years, then shaved it. People now tell me I look 20 years younger, so, guess I'll shave more often. Now I can go anywhere without being recognized, that is provided I dont speak.

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 06:44 PM

Hey Amerigin....As I said in a lot of places, Meebo is gone for good. No more Mbo/no more Meebo. Matt_R shows a lot of enthusiasm, but more maturity and if you check his posts, I think you'll agree. Let's let Meebo go wherever little kids go and welcome Matt_R.........Whaddaya' think?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Beards and Mudcatters
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Oct 00 - 06:41 PM

Many years ago while visiting Italy I couldn't help noticing the preponderance of neatly trimmed noustaches among the natives. On remarking on this to my companion she said that secretly they really wanted to be like their mothers ...