It’s funny, don’t you see? All you have to do to be funny is to mention nose hairs. I can’t stop … laughing. Honest! Have I ever lied to you?
EW
Bill, it depends on the beard. I agree with you about a full beard. I’m not sure how much maintenance is needed, though, for well-sculpted beards such as vandykes (which, according to my handiest dictionary is one word, lower case).
My full beard takes very little maintenance. I like low-maintenance things.
The joke is an old formula. “George Washington is dead? I didn’t even know he was sick.” “Become an accountant? I can’t even account for myself.” “Me an artist? I can’t even draw unemployment.”
Having had a full beard since 1978 I like to flaunt all the extra hours of sleep I’ve enjoyed over the past 40+ years because of not having to shave every morning. Neener neener.
In or around 1980, when I first met Hubby, I saw what a terrible condition his skin would be in after shaving. I encouraged him to grow a beard, and he’s had it ever since, albeit cut short for his dive trips. He now looks like Santa Claus; kids come up and talk to him, people in airports want selfies with him . . . he tells the kids that Santa, too, takes vacations.
Folks are right about time served or saved with the shave. For me it is the dividing line between asleep and awake. I see some ugly guy put a razor to my throat and boy howdy that wakes me up.
Arthur: It depends on where the vandyke is.
Andréa, it’s been a while since my last dive trip, but I think I only had to shave the mustache for a good seal; I know I didn’t shave the beard. (I think someone said some kind of goop on the mustache would also have worked.)
“It takes far less time to keep a beard trimmed than it does to shave every day”
YMMV.
Yes, the ‘goop’ is what Hubby sometimes uses. He’s returning today, so I’ll ask him.
The guy I dated in high school had a beard. My parents thought it funny – he was trying to look like a hippie, but he looked like a rabbinical scholar. (
Similarly, <etyl, I had a beard in college and my grandfather was upset with me when I shaved it off, because he liked the fact that I looked like a rabbi.
Some guys have a harder time growing a beard than others. I see how this can be confusing. My ex had a huge neckbeard that grew like a weed and preferred to grow it out versus shave it. Eventually he stopped cutting it. Other guys have a hard time growing beards to begin with.
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It’s funny, don’t you see? All you have to do to be funny is to mention nose hairs. I can’t stop … laughing. Honest! Have I ever lied to you?
EW
Bill, it depends on the beard. I agree with you about a full beard. I’m not sure how much maintenance is needed, though, for well-sculpted beards such as vandykes (which, according to my handiest dictionary is one word, lower case).
My full beard takes very little maintenance. I like low-maintenance things.
The joke is an old formula. “George Washington is dead? I didn’t even know he was sick.” “Become an accountant? I can’t even account for myself.” “Me an artist? I can’t even draw unemployment.”
Having had a full beard since 1978 I like to flaunt all the extra hours of sleep I’ve enjoyed over the past 40+ years because of not having to shave every morning. Neener neener.
In or around 1980, when I first met Hubby, I saw what a terrible condition his skin would be in after shaving. I encouraged him to grow a beard, and he’s had it ever since, albeit cut short for his dive trips. He now looks like Santa Claus; kids come up and talk to him, people in airports want selfies with him . . . he tells the kids that Santa, too, takes vacations.
Folks are right about time served or saved with the shave. For me it is the dividing line between asleep and awake. I see some ugly guy put a razor to my throat and boy howdy that wakes me up.
Arthur: It depends on where the vandyke is.
Andréa, it’s been a while since my last dive trip, but I think I only had to shave the mustache for a good seal; I know I didn’t shave the beard. (I think someone said some kind of goop on the mustache would also have worked.)
“It takes far less time to keep a beard trimmed than it does to shave every day”
YMMV.
Yes, the ‘goop’ is what Hubby sometimes uses. He’s returning today, so I’ll ask him.
The guy I dated in high school had a beard. My parents thought it funny – he was trying to look like a hippie, but he looked like a rabbinical scholar. (
Similarly, <etyl, I had a beard in college and my grandfather was upset with me when I shaved it off, because he liked the fact that I looked like a rabbi.
Some guys have a harder time growing a beard than others. I see how this can be confusing. My ex had a huge neckbeard that grew like a weed and preferred to grow it out versus shave it. Eventually he stopped cutting it. Other guys have a hard time growing beards to begin with.