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Let's all grow mustaches and beards

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 22 2006 12:03 PM

I plan to begin a lucky postseason shaving strike just as soon as I return from a biztrip next Thursday.

I tend to grow patchy Amish-style facial hair that comes out red -- and now some grey! -- and promise you I'll look and feel as ugly as I want to Mets to win as the playoffs start.

Who's with me?!?

Hello?

cooby
Sep 22 2006 12:04 PM

Well, I'm not.

Yancy Street Gang
Sep 22 2006 12:06 PM

Cooby's gonna keep shaving???

I haven't shaved since November of 2000. (Other than my throat and cheeks.) This is the first time the Mets have made the postseason while I've been wearing facial hair.

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 22 2006 12:07 PM

]I haven't shaved since November of 2000.


See, it's working already.

soupcan
Sep 22 2006 12:08 PM

No can do, Boo.

I've got high holy days and then there's that pesky little job.

I'm with ya in spirit though.

Edgy DC
Sep 22 2006 12:11 PM

I've got a sick-guy beard going already.

metirish
Sep 22 2006 12:14 PM

Well I've not shaved today so maybe I won't all weekend.....go Mets.

sharpie
Sep 22 2006 12:20 PM

I don't shave on weekends or vacations. When in Italy last summer I didn't shave for 3 weeks. It came in with a lot of grey. I considered keeping it but ended up shaving the night before I went back to work.

My biggest problem, however, is that Mrs. sharpie hates the beard.

Yancy Street Gang
Sep 22 2006 12:21 PM

The reason I grew my beard is because I got sick of shaving. I was standing in front of the mirro and had picked up the shaving cream and the razor when I realized I didn't want to do it. So I put down the shaving cream and the razor and walked away.

Somehow that resulted in a mustache and a beard.

cooby
Sep 22 2006 12:22 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote:
Cooby's gonna keep shaving???

.



It's a household rule

Nymr83
Sep 22 2006 12:30 PM

]I've got high holy days and then there's that pesky little job.

thats 3 days right there that you arent allowed to shave anyway, you've got a great head start! who cares what work thinks? i've used the Omer excuse for not shaving in the past.

MFS62
Sep 22 2006 12:37 PM

And if they can you for the beard, think of the great lawsuit you'd have.

I used to have a full beard. But working around the garden in the Summer made it all sweaty. So I decided to shave it off.
Bad decision - I looked like a raccoon for a while until my suntan equalized.

Later

Vic Sage
Sep 22 2006 12:41 PM

well, Johnny, you know I'M with ya!!
In fact, I'm already past ya!

soupcan
Sep 22 2006 12:52 PM

Nymr83 wrote:
]I've got high holy days and then there's that pesky little job.

thats 3 days right there that you arent allowed to shave anyway, you've got a great head start! who cares what work thinks? i've used the Omer excuse for not shaving in the past.


Yeah I've tried that argument in the past. The Almighty's on my side but I answer to a higher authority - my wife.

Gwreck
Sep 22 2006 12:54 PM

No can do. Gotta use whatever leverage is possible to get out of work for potential afternoon playoff games.

Willets Point
Sep 22 2006 12:56 PM

I don't really grow facial hair. It just looks like I kind of have newsprint on my face if I don't shave for four or five days.

Yancy Street Gang
Sep 22 2006 01:00 PM

That's very chic these days. Every photo I saw from the Emmys this year had a guy with a grey chin.

Frayed Knot
Sep 22 2006 01:06 PM

I just got rid of the one I had for the last 3 or 4 years (which followed years of doing a winter-on/summer-off thing) mainly because that's where all the grey guys were congregating.
Congregating hell, they had plum taken over!

RealityChuck
Sep 22 2006 01:06 PM

Too late for me:


Here I am hanging out with MFY fans.

MFS62
Sep 22 2006 01:21 PM

If I had to hang out a lot with Yankee fans, I'd grow my beard back as a disguise.

Later

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 22 2006 01:33 PM

Well, this isn't going well but for the pre-bearded.

If you're too scared of your wife, your religion or your boss to walk around looking stupid for a couple weeks, then I urge you to take up some other foolish gesture with playoff mojo implications.

Ya wussies.

Willets Point
Sep 22 2006 01:35 PM

The only thing necessary for good mojo is that Vic keeps his ass covered for the entire month of October.

MFS62
Sep 22 2006 01:42 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote:
If you're too scared of your wife, your religion or your boss to walk around looking stupid for a couple weeks, then I urge you to take up some other foolish gesture with playoff mojo implications.


I have. I finally found a new "good luck" sitting position for watching Mets games. MMYF threw me a curve by getting new furniture and throwing out my recliner.

Later

cooby
Sep 22 2006 01:43 PM

She didn't discuss it with you first?

soupcan
Sep 22 2006 01:44 PM

I can grow a beard and mustache fine but sideburns want no part of me.

MFS62
Sep 22 2006 01:48 PM

cooby wrote:
She didn't discuss it with you first?


Of course I tried.
But to no avail.
There's no winning when you argue with a Yankee fan.

Later

cooby
Sep 22 2006 01:54 PM

Cold.

A Boy Named Seo
Sep 22 2006 03:14 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote:
Well, this isn't going well but for the pre-bearded.

If you're too scared of your wife, your religion or your boss to walk around looking stupid for a couple weeks, then I urge you to take up some other foolish gesture with playoff mojo implications.

Ya wussies.


I'm with you, damn it. I've got a little less than a week's worth on my face now and it's going nowhere. Shaving sucks anyway.

I'm in like Daryl Boston.

seawolf17
Sep 22 2006 03:26 PM

Already have the vandyke going... if I grew the full beard I'd look too much like my dad, which would freak me out. (I look enough like him already... one friend from high school who I haven't seen in years told me, after looking at MiiniWolf's web page, "I don't really remember your dad, but you look just like I remember him." That's close enough for me.)

I'll let my nose hairs grow instead. (Or maybe I'll go all Rollie Fingers handlebar moustache.)

KC
Sep 22 2006 03:33 PM

I just shaved off five days worth this morning ... too many greys.

Mertle, get me Clyde Frazier on the phone pronto.

Lundy
Sep 22 2006 03:37 PM

I'll go in, but I was planning on putting the (electric) razor down on the day the playoffs begin.

soupcan
Sep 22 2006 03:42 PM

seawolf17 wrote:
Already have the vandyke going...


Difference between a vandyke and a goatee?

seawolf17
Sep 22 2006 03:46 PM

I think technically, the goatee is just the chin; the vandyke is the goatee and moustache. Everybody uses goatee for the whole thing, because (a) vandyke sounds dumb, and (b) neither Dick nor Jerry had one.

Herb Gardner
Sep 22 2006 03:50 PM

Gonna do it.

Willets Point
Sep 22 2006 03:57 PM

Herb! Holy Shit, where have you been the past 4 months? We were just starting to get to know you when you vanished.

Herb Gardner
Sep 22 2006 03:58 PM

Harvest time.

soupcan
Sep 22 2006 04:00 PM

seawolf17 wrote:
I think technically, the goatee is just the chin; the vandyke is the goatee and moustache. Everybody uses goatee for the whole thing, because (a) vandyke sounds dumb, and (b) neither Dick nor Jerry had one.


Coupla things -

Vandyke does not sound dumb, it sounds cool. Super cool in fact.

When the vandyke/goatee craze first hit in the cearly 90's it was me that started it. I was the first. Same thing in the early '80s with the RayBan Wayfarer sunglasses. Had 'em BEFORE 'Risky Business'.

When I grew that first goatee in like 1989-90 my European mother's first response was 'Oh, you grew a vandyke'.

Yancy Street Gang
Sep 22 2006 04:20 PM

According to Wikipedia, a Van Dyck is a kind of goatee:

]Goatee styles

  • Musketeer - a small, pointed goatee with an English moustache (narrow, prominent), as worn by the French mousquetaires
  • Van Dyck - a thick goatee and moustache with upturned ends, as worn by the 17th century Flemish painter, Sir Anthony van Dyck. In modern usage, a Van Dyck is often any moustache and goatee combination

metirish
Sep 22 2006 04:22 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 22 2006 04:25 PM

I suck,I'm already itching to shave.I think the longest I have gone without shaving is about five gays.

ok I meant days.

Yancy Street Gang
Sep 22 2006 04:23 PM

The itching won't last much longer.

Vic Sage
Sep 22 2006 05:24 PM

Willets Point wrote:
The only thing necessary for good mojo is that Vic keeps his ass covered for the entire month of October.


wow. WP tosses off a reference that goes back, back, back, waaaaay back!

So, in the spirit of the moment, I'll not only agree to KEEP my beard and mustache on (as if i'd ever shave it!), bull I also pledge that i shall not de-pantsify myself in the vicinity of a Mets game, whether live or televised.

so let it be written, so let it be done!

Willets Point
Sep 22 2006 05:27 PM

Vic Sage wrote:
="Willets Point"]The only thing necessary for good mojo is that Vic keeps his ass covered for the entire month of October.


wow. WP tosses off a reference that goes back, back, back, waaaaay back!



Back to the last time the Mets were in the postseason and your barebottom jinxed them. You think we'd forget something like that?

MFS62
Sep 22 2006 05:33 PM

Vic Sage wrote:
.

so let it be written, so let it be done!

Wrong holiday (or was it the movie?).
But we appreciate the sentiment.

Later

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 22 2006 06:05 PM

Lundy wrote:
I'll go in, but I was planning on putting the (electric) razor down on the day the playoffs begin.


That's absolutely kosher! I'm only starting early cuz I've barely reached puberty and need a head start.

metirish
Sep 22 2006 06:52 PM

]

so let it be written, so let it be done!


Vic is qouting "creeping death" from Metallica....kinda cool for an old guy :)

KC
Sep 22 2006 07:37 PM

Vic hates hard rock, Metallica's quoting the bible or something.

Edgy DC
Sep 22 2006 08:00 PM

Vic hates the Bible. He's quoting Rameses in The Ten Commandments.

KC
Sep 22 2006 08:11 PM

I knew it wasn't a heavy metal band. Vic and I have polar tastes on
gain, distortion, and reverb.

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 22 2006 08:54 PM

Thought it was Dan Bern.

Yancy Street Gang
Sep 23 2006 08:40 AM

I thought it was Stan Lee.

ScarletKnight41
Sep 28 2006 07:55 AM

Maybe everyone should shave now.

Edgy DC
Sep 28 2006 08:54 AM

I shaved heartily this morning --- performance review and all. I'll grow out for the playoffs. I just hope they last long enough for my beard to come in.

soupcan
Sep 28 2006 09:07 AM

Meanwhile I will now grow a beard.

Reverse karma baby!

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 01 2006 10:04 AM

Was obliviously enjoying an extra long hot shower yesterday when I realized I was absentmindedly shaving. It was only day 2, so no huge loss.

soupcan
Oct 01 2006 10:23 AM

I now have nice l'il goatee going and not so coincidentally it has coincided with the Mets modest 3-game streak.

It has also coincided with the Pedro-Lastings-Trachsel debacles, but hey wins are wins.

Bunt the First Two
Oct 09 2006 07:05 PM
Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Oct 09 2006 08:58 PM

How I love my Mets Beard
Which grows out of my face
It takes us through the playoffs
Since we came in firstest place

But my woman says I'm prickly
Too roughened now to kiss
"But that's my Mets Beard, Baby
Makes Nomar swing and miss"

I'll ever love you, Mets Beard
You understand me well
For the mystic ways you help my team
No human tongue can tell

But my boss says I look grubby
A vagrant and a slob
I tell them of the base hits
My beard helped Shawn Green rob

Let them hate us, Mets Beard
For you I give a shout
As I listen to the Mets win
As my desk I'm cleaning out

But my kids say that I'm scary
That I don't look like Dad
Perhaps more like Pat Zachry
But how could that be bad?

But you'll not leave me, Mets Beard
Though others turn away
You power lends precision
To each Reyes double play

And each double hit by Beltran
Wright's bat and Glavine's arm
You send the Mets your power
And send the rivals harm

So be my wife, sweet Mets Beard
Be my job and child
Be my raison d'etre
Make my visage wild

Somehow, someway we matter
When the Mets are winning games
Floyd, Martinez, Valentin
And the other hallowed names

And when at last I shave you
With the pennant on the wall
I'll have naught left there with me
To share this awesome fall

I'll return you to the cosmos
Your power to dispense
Of mighty magic strikeouts
And balls hit o'er the fence

I'll restart my life clean-shaven
No job or family, true
But I'll wear the hat of champions
Of Metly royal blue

cooby
Oct 09 2006 07:14 PM

that's my Mets Beard, Baby

That's a great poem!

OlerudOwned
Oct 09 2006 07:39 PM

That was fantastic-al.

TheOldMole
Oct 09 2006 09:39 PM

I loved it.

ScarletKnight41
Oct 09 2006 09:52 PM

Nice to see you Bunt :)

soupcan
Oct 09 2006 09:53 PM

Amazin', amazin', amazin'!!!

Fantastic job!

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 09 2006 10:10 PM

TheOldMole wrote:
I loved it.


the best part was it's true.

A Boy Named Seo
Oct 10 2006 12:10 PM

Fantastic poem! Here's Mets Beard and I enjoying it together some 30 minutes ago.

metirish
Oct 10 2006 12:34 PM

Brilliant poem,welcome Bunt the First Two.

soupcan
Oct 10 2006 12:43 PM

Great idea!

Post your MetsBeard!

Mine:

cooby
Oct 10 2006 12:46 PM

Hey that's a Woolrich shirt

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 10 2006 12:48 PM

That beard kicks Seo much ass. I'll get ya mine later.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 10 2006 01:53 PM

Actual conversation at the elevator:

Crazy chick in sales: Look at you, totally going with the 5 o'clock shadow!
JD: I've given up shaving for the postseason.
CC: That's hot!
JD: It's uncomfortable.
CC: Does your wife like it?
JD: No.
CC: (turns to co-worker in elevator): What do you think?
JD: You can be honest.
CW: It's... yeah...

soupcan
Oct 10 2006 02:11 PM

Yeah, I've gotten zero compliments as well.

The missus ain't a big fan.

MFS62
Oct 10 2006 02:21 PM

Still recovering from that picture.

Yes, welcome, Bunt.
Good job.
Welcome abordick. (That's not an insult, BTW. It is in honor of former met Mike Bordick.)

Later

Rockin' Doc
Oct 10 2006 09:10 PM

Bunt the First Two isn't a newbie. He (seh?) has been delightig the Crane Pool members with his poetry or several years. He doesn't post often, but he has been around for years. I'm pretty sure that he is an alter ego of one of the CPF regulars.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 10 2006 09:58 PM

Edgy DC
Oct 10 2006 10:24 PM

If you grab your guitar, "My Mets Beard" works well to the Beatles' "I Will."

A Boy Named Seo
Oct 11 2006 02:59 AM

Yo, Can, nice Vandyke!

And JD, that beard looks neither patchy, nor Amish. Hot and uncomfortable? Yes.

Irish, Edgy-how do your Met Beards grow? Herb, you gardening one?

Edgy DC
Oct 11 2006 10:20 AM

David Wright at last night's Ranger game, cheating Randolph during the Mets inter-series layoff and joining the beard brigade.

Farmer Ted
Oct 11 2006 10:30 AM

I dunno, Dickshot. Looks like the beard has been trimmed around the edges. Is that legal?

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 11 2006 11:12 AM

Have to keep the neck clean or I'd already have killed a few people.

But my kids say that I'm scary
That I don't look like Dad


Johnny Dickshot
Oct 11 2006 11:27 AM

Someone get me the dope on that watch DW is wearing.

Edgy DC
Oct 11 2006 12:01 PM

I got some serous flirtations from the lady at Quiznos yesterday.

On the way out, my beard said to me, "It was me she dug, you jackass."

Edgy DC
Oct 11 2006 12:08 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote:
Someone get me the dope on that watch DW is wearing.


I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's the Cliff Floyd Deathwatch.

Farmer Ted
Oct 11 2006 12:15 PM

A clean shaven Ivan rocks.

MFS62
Oct 11 2006 12:22 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote:
Someone get me the dope on that watch DW is wearing.


Almost as interesting is who has been doing David's eyebrows.

Later

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 13 2006 06:37 AM

Well-done, Zvon!



Yancy Street Gang
Oct 13 2006 08:00 AM

Last night, it looked like Lo Duca and Wagner are getting with the program.

Farmer Ted
Oct 13 2006 08:31 AM

"Last night, it looked like Lo Duca and Wagner are getting with the program."

The sissy George Michael look was very popular last night in the Mets dugout, David Wright included. I would have preferred the more rugged Bruce Sutter look.

Yancy Street Gang
Oct 13 2006 08:33 AM

You can't get to Bruce Sutter without passing through George Michael.

Edgy DC
Oct 13 2006 08:34 AM

Which I tried to explain to the police the night I was busted.

Farmer Ted
Oct 13 2006 09:05 AM

Less this...

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/celebp/10112006/photo03.jpg

More this...

http://bostondirtdogs.boston.com/Headline_Archives/bdd_Chewbacca.jpg

Edgy DC
Oct 14 2006 12:35 AM

To shave or not to shave?

Zvon
Oct 14 2006 12:37 AM

Edgy DC wrote:
To shave or not to shave?


trim

TransMonk
Oct 14 2006 12:41 AM

I'll stick with mine as long as LoDuca and Wright stay with theirs.

Yancy Street Gang
Oct 14 2006 07:42 AM

Keep them until the Mets win the World Series or are eliminated.

Frayed Knot
Oct 14 2006 08:01 AM

My beard - which I started just over two weeks ago - was undefeated until last night.
I was starting to think there was a connection.

Edgy DC
Oct 14 2006 12:01 PM

I have a wedding today.

"Dude, did you forget to shave?"

"Nope. This is my Mets beard. Helps the team. win. Big game today."

"Dude it's my wedding."

"Yeah, I know. Tough conflict. Listen, we'll miss the first two innings during the ceremony. No avoiding that. But you enjoy the reception, and I'll cut out to a bar and return every now and then and give you an update. It'll be like you're there."

"But, um, dude, we've put a lot of money into this. The pictures are really important."

"Tell me about it. I don't know what we'll do if Trax comes up empty. Go to Oliver early, I guess. But how much can we get out of Heilman today? He went yestereday and then flew overnight. Hell, they're all tired."

"What are you talking about?"

"The pitchers. Same as you."

SteveJRogers
Oct 14 2006 12:26 PM

Abbott and Costello ladies and genetlemen!

Rockin' Doc
Oct 14 2006 10:45 PM

Unfortunately, Edgy's scenario became far too real tonight.

Zvon
Oct 14 2006 11:17 PM

="Edgy DC"]I have a wedding today.

"Dude, did you forget to shave?"

"Nope. This is my Mets beard. Helps the team. win. Big game today."

"Dude it's my wedding."

"Yeah, I know. Tough conflict. Listen, we'll miss the first two innings during the ceremony. No avoiding that. But you enjoy the reception, and I'll cut out to a bar and return every now and then and give you an update. It'll be like you're there."

"But, um, dude, we've put a lot of money into this. The pictures are really important."

"Tell me about it. I don't know what we'll do if Trax comes up empty. Go to Oliver early, I guess. But how much can we get out of Heilman today? He went yestereday and then flew overnight. Hell, they're all tired."

"What are you talking about?"

"The pitchers. Same as you."


Yea-ominous, but....this is classically hilarious tho.

cooby
Oct 15 2006 10:22 PM

I think you guys with beards should all trim them down to soul patches (or whatever that stupid thing is), dye them bright blue, and wear them to Shea Stadium when they come back

Edgy DC
Oct 15 2006 10:32 PM

Nah, I think we'll let the Cardinal fans keep that one.

Me no follow Spiezio trends. Or Spiezo bands.

Sandfrog's website has been zeroed out.

soupcan
Oct 15 2006 10:49 PM

Those red strips hanging from their chins make it look like they all cut themselves shaving with a paint scraper.

Iubitul
Oct 16 2006 09:46 AM

I wanted to smack Spiezio just because of that stupid thing.

I always had the alternate universe Spock look, now I'm just letting the rest of my jaw line fill in...

Valadius
Oct 16 2006 04:53 PM

I've had a soul patch goatee-like thing going for nearly a year now, with a few scattered instances where I shaved it.

Centerfield
Oct 16 2006 04:59 PM

Not facial-hair related, but along the same lines...

My surround-sound receiver broke down around the time Duaner was getting into a cab in Atlanta. I brought it in to be fixed and it took a really really long time. Ever since then, I haven't watched any games in HD. Since then, we lost Duaner, traded Nady, lost Pedro, lost El Duque and Cliff got hurt. Plus we lost Games 2 and 3 of the NLCS.

On Sunday, I hooked up the replacement receiver the company provided for me when they couldn't fix my old one. Mets have not lost since.

You guys can do what you want with facial hair. Now that I am back to watching games in HD, we cannot lose.

Yancy Street Gang
Oct 16 2006 05:01 PM

You da man, CF!

Zvon
Oct 16 2006 06:30 PM

Ive had this same facial configuration goin since late last century.
Easily thru the '99,'00 post games.
Lil shabbier and longer now......
I refuse to trim til we are World Champs.

ScarletKnight41
Oct 16 2006 06:56 PM

That's a great hat :)

soupcan
Oct 16 2006 09:22 PM

That's David Letterman.

cooby
Oct 16 2006 11:04 PM

And I like your glasses, I had a pair just like that a couple years back and they were my favorite ones ever.

Willets Point
Oct 17 2006 12:51 AM

...until you got your Red Ryder bb-gun and almost shot your eye out.

cooby
Oct 17 2006 08:35 AM

No, actually my daughter stepped on them :(

MFS62
Oct 17 2006 08:50 AM

Willets Point wrote:
...until you got your Red Ryder bb-gun and almost shot your eye out.

Is her real name Ralphie?
LOL!

Later

cooby
Oct 17 2006 09:15 AM

Ew, no!

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 17 2006 04:17 PM

<<<< I could use a bearded Wally Backman here.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 17 2006 09:32 PM

Well done again!



Rockin' Doc
Oct 17 2006 10:14 PM

You have the power, JD. Ask for 4 runs in the top of the 6th inning.

Edgy DC
Oct 19 2006 01:54 PM

I've been shaving my cheeks and neck, and I'm getting a Ghost and Mrs. Muir thing going.

The other thing is that the full-beard context makes it less imperative that I trim the soul patch. I checked this morning and it's cray-zee.

Edgy DC
Oct 19 2006 11:23 PM

Beard, I need you.

Valadius
Oct 19 2006 11:24 PM

I need my beard's power too.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 19 2006 11:45 PM

My beard (it will be gone in 10 minutes) was too powerful and wasted all its magic on the Dodgers and Yankees series.

When the FAA came to interview it regarding a small plane crash I probably shoulda known it had gone evil.

Rockin' Doc
Oct 19 2006 11:47 PM

Beard? I need another damn beer!

Valadius
Oct 19 2006 11:47 PM

My beard is about to be shaved off. I'll finally go and get that haircut too.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 20 2006 12:20 AM



I can't recommend this stuff highly enough. I recently bought $50 worth of the stuff at shave.com to get free shipping.

metsmarathon
Oct 20 2006 12:25 AM

that is good stuff. i keep forgetting to go to harmon's to re-up my stash.

Valadius
Oct 20 2006 12:26 AM

Can I find it at, say, CVS?

metsmarathon
Oct 20 2006 12:31 AM

yeah, should be there too. but i always forget to look when i'm near.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 20 2006 12:31 AM

It's hit or miss at chain drugstores.

soupcan
Oct 20 2006 09:09 AM

Gone daddy gone.

MetsBeard was returned to the cosmos at approximately 12:30 am.

Looking forward to growing another next October.

Vic Sage
Oct 20 2006 10:34 AM

fuck your beards and the chins they grew in on...

i'm one bitter dude this morning.

MFS62
Oct 20 2006 10:46 AM

Vic Sage wrote:
fuck your beards and the chins they grew in on...

i'm one bitter dude this morning.


I feel your pain, Vic.
But I've managed to crawl back off the ledge.

Later

Edgy DC
Oct 23 2006 11:47 AM

The disloyal beard that disappointed me so and the loyal woman who picked up the pieces.

Frayed Knot
Oct 23 2006 12:03 PM

Finally got around to hacking mine off Friday night ... hack being the operative word here.
One thing I discovered in the year or two since I last had a beard full-time was that the trimmer I had used back then was no longer working (I had been shaping this one along the cheekbones & neck but not for length so I hadn't noticed the trimmer's death). I wound up needing to attack it with a pair of scissors for a while in order to get in down to a length a razor could handle. That sucker grew a lot faster & bushier in just 3 weeks than I had remembered ... also a lot whiter.
So, if nothing else, the timing of it all spared me from a bunch of comments at the extended family outing I was at over the weekend.

Willets Point
Oct 23 2006 12:50 PM

You and your damn beards! Next year during postseason we're going the obsesively clean-shaven route. Brazilian waxing for everyone!