Poll: Beards

Minnesota_boy · March 27, 2006, 01:21:14 PM

I used to grow a beard each fall, telling my wife it was camoflage for bow hunting. I quit for a few years, then decided to grow one for warmth while working a site in winter with little protection from the wind.

One day I was in the store by myself when I met a lady pushing a cart with a youngster in the seat. As they went by I heard the youngster ask momma, "Was that Santa?" I decided that my beard was too white to use for camoflage anymore. :D :D

Ed_K · March 27, 2006, 08:03:10 PM

I'm with tnlogger, only it was 77 ;D

wiam · March 27, 2006, 10:04:27 PM

Quote from: Captain on March 27, 2006, 06:52:57 AM
No beard, Fire Department Regulations with SCBA....

Captain

What Captain said, and the wife likes it that way.

Will

KGNC · March 28, 2006, 08:44:17 AM

It seems like I can grow a bread in a long weekend. But it has gotten so gray that I just keep it shaved. Besides I worry that I look to much like Saddam Hussein!

Nailhead · March 28, 2006, 11:40:43 AM

Nearest I can remember, had one for about 30 years. If I came home clean shaven, my wife and daughter would not know me and my dog would bite me.

Mr Mom · March 28, 2006, 11:50:38 AM

I dont shave if i dont have too.
I dont go anywhere that is that important to shave.
Now if i go to granmas that is the first thing i do.

Thanks Mr Mom

beenthere · March 28, 2006, 02:19:04 PM

Do it for your bride. ;)

She is the most important one for you to impress.

sawguy21 · March 28, 2006, 02:22:56 PM

KGNC, you should worry. The likeness is uncanny. :D :D :D

crtreedude · March 28, 2006, 02:50:55 PM

That is my other reason for shaving, the Ticos think I look like Osama...

Den Socling · March 28, 2006, 07:45:33 PM

My beard has been around for a long time.

A very long time.

I can't stand it long but I couldn't stand scraping my face every morning. :D

old3dogg · March 28, 2006, 07:53:15 PM

Den.
You had black hair once? When was that? Back in the 40's? ;D

Just kidding buddy. At least you still have hair!

Den Socling · March 28, 2006, 07:59:34 PM

Hi Mike,

That black hair was only 30 years ago. 30 years!

good to hear from you. It's coming onto summer. Are you coming to Pine Creek?

Den

old3dogg · March 28, 2006, 08:08:57 PM

Im going to try and hit Slate Run this year.

Im headed for Coal Township on April 19th.

May stop in for a visit if you are going to be around. I will have Vickie with me.

Den Socling · March 28, 2006, 08:43:33 PM

Mike,

We have a guest house across the creek for business visitors. You can use it if you like. just let me know the timing.

And I have a lot of customers who need a small amout of water treatment so you can call it a business trip.

Did anybody ever restart any of BWP's vac kilns?

Den

twoodward15 · March 28, 2006, 08:50:07 PM

I'm with tnlogger and Ed K only it'll be another 28.5 years until I get my 214!!!

karl · March 29, 2006, 06:34:31 PM

Had a moustache for 34 years, 'sept for one Christmas- shaved it and "wife of the time" didn't even notice until someone at a party told me I looked 14- haven't shaved it since ( 30 years) Marie thought I looked better with chin whiskers- no problem, don't like shaving that area anyway. Dad shaved every week(or two) "wheather it needs it or not", I am getting more like him every day........

Sprucegum · March 29, 2006, 09:13:26 PM

I do the Winter Beard routine.

One of the newguys at work was moonin' about when spring was gonna get here. Larry points at me and says

When that old guy shaves his beard off - its the first day of spring, happens every year ;D

Lud · March 30, 2006, 09:23:58 PM

Beard and handlebars 30+ years. Shaving while working in a dirty foundry with curly type meant I got a lot of "sideways" ingrown hairs. 20-40 at a time. Pick 'em with a needle to get them to come out. Beard sure is a lot easier.

Had it ever since. Keep it short enough so it doesn't catch on stuff.

Starting to get that Santa noise.... Pretty Saleslady said I reminded her of Santa and I said I'm not that old or round! She made a good save when she claimed it was because it was of the "twinkle in my eye" 8) 8)

hiya · March 30, 2006, 10:11:50 PM

Mike, Den, I'll be in slate run the end of june. The first cabin on left north of the store. Wifes dad helped build the cabin back in the 40's. I've been going there for the last 40 some years around the 4th. of July. Like to hear the lumbering stories about the area. Can still hear the old steam engines coming down the tracks.
Richard

Woodcarver · March 31, 2006, 12:34:15 AM

I grew a beard on impulse about 20 years ago. Got comfortable with it and have had it ever since.

I have a good friend who has had a beard for as long as I have know him--about 30 years. One day when I stopped at his home for a visit I saw a wedding picture of him without the beard. I said so that's what you look like with out the whiskers. He said his future mother-in-law told him he had to shave his beard for the wedding. The night before the big day he shaved it off. He had the beard when he first met his bride and she had never seen him without it. When she saw him clean shaven on their wedding day she burst into tears. She told him to grow it back and never shave it off. Didn't like what she saw, I guess. He said he was glad he could blame it on his mother-in-law.

woodbeard · March 31, 2006, 06:39:21 AM

I am sure I have one, somewhere under all this sawdust. :D
It should still be there- I've never shaved it.. ever!

DanG · March 31, 2006, 07:54:19 AM

George! NEVER?!

Now that's a record to be proud of.

I seen a couple of pictures of ya. Have ya ever even trimmed it? ;D

woodbeard · March 31, 2006, 11:07:24 AM

I used to keep it trimmed, but gave up on it years ago. Used to have real long hair as well. Now I keep the hair buzzed short and the beard long.

isawlogs · March 31, 2006, 08:24:34 PM

I have always had a beard , only shaved it a few times while working the high steel , because of shutdowns in the paper mills , would not let you in the gate if you had a beard , had something to do with oxigen mask or something in that matter . First time I shaved it was in the middle of Febuary , I did not know of the no beard policy got there in the morning and I would not be let in to work if I had a beard , went to the corner store and bought a rasor and started to shave .... more like pulling the wiskers out one at a time :

I dont recall a colder winter . ;D

junkyard · April 01, 2006, 02:29:33 PM

Last time i shaved was in 73 when Mom died. Hadn't shaved for 6 years before that. Sister used clippers on me first then the razor. Was my face tender. Shure itched while it was growing back.
Met my wife 10 years before we got together that was the only time she ever saw me with out a beard. Son has only seen pictures of me bare faced he has a nice beard also. His is dark mine was red now grey.
Junkyard

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Poll: Beards