Talk about needing a hobby...
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soundweasel
Super Member
Just make sure to shave your neck so you don't look like The Wolfman -- it scares the kids! On the other hand, that may be a good thing!
After doing the "ZZ Top thing" in college, I've had a close-cropped beard since 1982. It's "salt and pepper" (not gray and white) and chicks dig it! Actually, my wife digs it, and boy was she pissed when I shaved it off between the ZZ Top phase and the more refined look I currently feature.
Grow it, wear it with pride, but don't scare the kids!
After doing the "ZZ Top thing" in college, I've had a close-cropped beard since 1982. It's "salt and pepper" (not gray and white) and chicks dig it! Actually, my wife digs it, and boy was she pissed when I shaved it off between the ZZ Top phase and the more refined look I currently feature.
Grow it, wear it with pride, but don't scare the kids!
Sandy G
Retired Member
Every time I think about lettin' 'er grow out, I can't help but remember this damn teacher at McCallie, when a bunch of us decided to wear moustaches 'n' beards- He was VERY prissy, got right up in the face of the biggest boy, a varsity defensive lineman, & giggled & went,"I see that you are trying to cultivate on your upper lip that which grows quite freely in the crack of my ass...Tee-Hee-Hee !" The moustaches were all gone the next day....
Arkay
Lunatic Member
I grew mine out a couple times for about two months leading up to Halloween, just to make a more realistic (wolfman-esque) appearance. Wife didn't care for the scratchiness, and I didn't think it enhanced my appearance, so I always shaved it off and otherwise have been clean-shaven my whole life. My Dad grew a beard after retirement, though, and looks great in it, so maybe I'll do that eventually. :scratch2: I think he still has more hair on top than I do, though, so maybe it won't look so good on me. 
(shrug...)
(shrug...)
OvenMaster
Baby, you're my winterblue
Good Lord, my hair started turning white at 18! Now what's left on the sides is mostly salt with a little pepper; the top's like a billiard ball. But whenever my whiskers grow past the two-day stage, I can't wait to shave it off because the heat held in by the whiskers drives me insane.
fotno
Lunatic Member
I figure at this stage in my life, there's nobody left that I care all that much about impressing or dissapointing, except Mrs. Fotno and my Mama, and they both gave up worrying over my craziness years ago... Mrs. Fotno always tells people, don't laugh or point, you'll just encourage him!
If kids aren't scared of me already (I AM bigger than some houses) the beard won't make a difference.
Like I say, I've always wanted to go all ZZ-Top and grow it out, and after almost 30 years of shaving (starting at age 13), I feel I have licked all the red off that particular piece of candy. It's kinda like washing dishes, once you've done it once or twice... You've absorbed about everything that washing dishes has to offer.
If kids aren't scared of me already (I AM bigger than some houses) the beard won't make a difference.
Like I say, I've always wanted to go all ZZ-Top and grow it out, and after almost 30 years of shaving (starting at age 13), I feel I have licked all the red off that particular piece of candy. It's kinda like washing dishes, once you've done it once or twice... You've absorbed about everything that washing dishes has to offer.
merrylander
AK Member
I would not mind a beard, but I'm stuck with the moustache. Two years back I slipped on the black ice in our driveway and smashed my two front teeth through my upper lip. Seventeen stitches later just call me scarface. How that pretty little nurse got in all those stiches through my moustache I'll never know.
Had to see a dental surgeon and our dentist still shakes his head, he was sure I was going to need root canals on both teeth.
Rob
Had to see a dental surgeon and our dentist still shakes his head, he was sure I was going to need root canals on both teeth.
Rob
cabinover
Dazed and Confused
Rob, that story hurts even me way up here.
I'm pretty much a clean shaven lad. Tried the moustache but after 2 weeks all I had was what appeared to be a vast desert wasteland with a few scrub trees here and there :lmao: Besides, that nice clean shave helps keep me warm at night.
I'm pretty much a clean shaven lad. Tried the moustache but after 2 weeks all I had was what appeared to be a vast desert wasteland with a few scrub trees here and there :lmao: Besides, that nice clean shave helps keep me warm at night.
Wigwam Jones
Caesar non supra grammati
I wear a reverse-goatee. No idea what it's called, really. I just made it up.
I've let it get REALLY long on the sides sometimes, like some kind of Southern General, but Mrs. Wiggy gets a tad displaced about it.
I've let it get REALLY long on the sides sometimes, like some kind of Southern General, but Mrs. Wiggy gets a tad displaced about it.
fotno
Lunatic Member
merrylander said:
That's one of the reasons I started growing the goatee Rob - I had a car wreck, stupid driver (me), wet road, when I was 19 and ate the steering wheel. Always wear your seatbelt children! It shoved my upper teeth clean through my lower lip, and took 9 + 3 stitches to close the two different cuts up. Tore me up but good! Left a nice scar too...
Ok, perhaps it is the fact that I can't grow a nice looking beard (wayyy too blonde-headed, leaves my would-be beard translucent), but I actually like to shave. Put on my music, lather up with shaving soap (williams is ok, but I prefer Burma shave...getting hard to find) and emerging with one hell of an exfoliation....
still, I keep the dang round beard(Van Gogh, whatever it is called) I've got less chin than Ron Silver, so gotta do it for asthetics.
still, I keep the dang round beard(Van Gogh, whatever it is called) I've got less chin than Ron Silver, so gotta do it for asthetics.
Wigwam Jones
Caesar non supra grammati
ozmoid
Lunatic Member
Rob, I am RARELY EVER without a mustache - when I was a little tyke, I fell on an old metal floor furnace grate, and split my upper lip all the way in two up to my nose. Thank heaven I was small enough I don't remember it. The centerline of my mustache starts just right of center on the bottom and angles up to the left, following the ridge of scar tissue. I usually clip out a little triangle at the bottom to make it appear "right" to the casual observer. (It is my only concession to vanity!)merrylander said:
ozmoid
Lunatic Member
Those would be mutton chops, Wiggy.Wigwam Jones said:I wear a reverse-goatee. No idea what it's called, really. I just made it up.
I've let it get REALLY long on the sides sometimes, like some kind of Southern General, but Mrs. Wiggy gets a tad displaced about it.
Technically "extravagant, with mustache" if you join the two together.
fujifrontier
roundie not so n00b
1. me either. all patchy...onwardjames said:
2. me too
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i used to until i broke my shaving mug. And when I figured out I wasn't being kind to my skin.4. ick. I use the Olay Thermal polisher every other day.... it works wonders. And i shave with the Fusion Power razor. mmmm... smooth as a baby's butt