I'm growing a beard

[SoCalCoug]

Who is the gibbon?

The monkey.

[John McClain]

I taught seminary the school year before last. For that calling I shaved my beard (my choice; no one even suggested I do so). I had the beard for about 2 years before that. After the school year ended, I grew back the beard and had various permutations of it up until around Christmas time. Then I shaved it; again, just for change. I was called as a bishop two months later. So, you may want to keep that beard for a long time.

[New Mexican Disaster]

Wow. So I guess President Monson, Bronco Mendenhall and General David Petraeus all look like sissies.

Yes and it affects there job performance, too.

Monson never makes the prop 8 decision if he has a pencil mustache, Petraeus learns the lessons of Iraq and counter insurgency that much quicker with a rapper's delight, and Bronco figures out that Ratliff might scramble in 05' and the refs do not dare give the pass int. call on Matt Allen against AZ if Bronco has mutton chops (and we make a damn field goal.

Shaving has cost BYU personally a BCS bowl game, Mormons generally the respect of the people of California and the nation years of progress in Iraq.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Old Dutch is the way to go, and I welcome you to a union of brotherhood that will encircle us into a deep bond!

[pellegrino]

I've been thinking of shaving my plumage, but if you're going to join me, maybe I'll reconsider. Now, go and get pellegrino to participate.

I have a perpetual three day beard, unless you see me on Sundays and Wednesdays (usually only during the school year) which are my "shave days." I'm not really interested in growing anything longer, especially now that I'm getting gray whiskers.

[LA Ute]

No one has mentioned wifely influence yet. I grew a mustache during my first year of law school just as a lark. I kept it for 25 years because my wife (whom I married in my thirs year) really, really liked it and insisted that I keep it. When I finally got really tired of it and shaved it off, she went through a period of mourning. (Well, it was really mock morning. But she really missed it.) She had never seen me without it - neither had my kids. I was surprised as how much they all had to adjust.

I added a beard about 10 years into our marriage but she was not as enamored of that. It lasted about two months.

Those of you who have or had beards and mustaches - how has your wife reacted to your facial hair's presence or absence?

[happyone]

No one has mentioned wifely influence yet. I grew a mustache during my first year of law school just as a lark. I kept it for 25 years because my wife (whom I married in my thirs year) really, really liked it and insisted that I keep it. When I finally got really tired of it and shaved it off, she went through a period of mourning. (Well, it was really mock morning. But she really missed it.) She had never seen me without it - neither had my kids. I was surprised as how much they all had to adjust.

I added a beard about 10 years into our marriage but she was not as enamored of that. It lasted about two months.

Those of you who have or had beards and mustaches - how has your wife reacted to your facial hair's presence or absence?

My wife has never seen me with out a mustache. I don't know what she would do if I shaved it off.

[wuapinmon]

I have a perpetual three day beard, unless you see me on Sundays and Wednesdays (usually only during the school year) which are my "shave days." I'm not really interested in growing anything longer, especially now that I'm getting gray whiskers.

I figure I'm about 1o years away from quitting higher ed and becoming a full-time Santa Claus, though I'm not sure if kids would go for a red & white fur guayabera and shorts.

[Mormon Red Death]

My wife has never seen me with out a mustache. I don't know what she would do if I shaved it off.

On your 60th birthday you should shave it. That is what Solon's dad did. Took awhile for everyone to notice but they were all like... "Something's different I just cant put my finger on it"

[wuapinmon]

My wife has never seen me with out a mustache. I don't know what she would do if I shaved it off.

Ask her if she stopped watching Jeopardy! when Trebek shaved.

[Sleeping in EQ]

I've been wearing my beard for about four weeks, so today I went and had it styled.

All I can say is: Thank you, heaven, for those old guys at the barber shops. Unlike the twenty-somethings who work at the supercuts-type places, old barber man knows more than one week's worth of cosmotology school about facial hair.

Barber man knows what he is doing, and the guy I went to likes teaching the young bucks.

He said that my type of face (oval) looks great with almost any beard, but we decided to go with a short boxed beard:

http://www.yeeeeee.com/wp-content/20...eardtypes1.jpg

Oh yes, and SIRS loves it.

[wuapinmon]

My friend bet me $50 I wouldn't shave my beard. I used his money to buy a case of peaches, some pectin for canning them, some yellow squash, and took the family out to dinner (and got some ice cream too).

I did shave one more time because the wife made it worthwhile. I'll be Anthrax-worthy by Christmas.

[falafel]

I've been wearing my beard for about four weeks, so today I went and had it styled.

All I can say is: Thank you, heaven, for those old guys at the barber shops. Unlike the twenty-somethings who work at the supercuts-type places, old barber man knows more than one week's worth of cosmotology school about facial hair.

Barber man knows what he is doing, and the guy I went to likes teaching the young bucks.

He said that my type of face (oval) looks great with almost any beard, but we decided to go with a short boxed beard:

http://www.yeeeeee.com/wp-content/20...eardtypes1.jpg

Oh yes, and SIRS loves it.

I would have gone with the Super Mario.

[Donuthole]

I've been wearing my beard for about four weeks, so today I went and had it styled.

All I can say is: Thank you, heaven, for those old guys at the barber shops. Unlike the twenty-somethings who work at the supercuts-type places, old barber man knows more than one week's worth of cosmotology school about facial hair.

Barber man knows what he is doing, and the guy I went to likes teaching the young bucks.

He said that my type of face (oval) looks great with almost any beard, but we decided to go with a short boxed beard:



Oh yes, and SIRS loves it.

I"d like to see HFN clean up a bit by going with the French Fork. His Old Dutch is really getting out of control.

[oxcoug]

I shave once every 3-4 weeks

What's the appeal of wearing a beard?

Which means I'm always moving along a spectrum from clean shave to 5:00 shadow to borderline full beard and then back to the beginning.

It's not really about being lazy - there's just nothing in my life that compels me to shave regularly and I don't see the point.