(no beard required)
Posted on 03/23/2006 10:16:16 PM PST by presidio9
LAST December John Martin sat in on a focus group for a trend-forecasting company at which young professionals were asked about their grooming habits. Mr. Martin found he had nothing useful to contribute. His shaving regimen involves the use of a razor about as frequently as the seasons change.
"Everyone else was chiming in about the products they use," said Mr. Martin, the advertising director for Vice, a lad magazine based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "I was totally mystified. I blanked."
Mr. Martin's idea of a style symbol, seriously, is Ulysses S. Grant, whose beard he came to admire after watching the 2003 Civil War-era drama "Cold Mountain." Two years ago, when he began experimenting with different beard styles, which he described as ranging from neat to burly to unkempt, his facial hair was an expression of individuality in a tide of metrosexual conformity. Now 10 of his 15 co-workers at Vice wear full, bushy beards. In that, they vie with the pro-facial-hair contingent of an editorial rival, Spin, where a rash of new beards has broken out.
"It's a sign of the times," Mr. Martin said. "People are into beards right now."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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(no beard required)
Beards and waxed chests don't go together.
Gag.. Where is the barf alert.
I'd rather kiss my dog's butt.
I hope that Hillary doesn't decide to stop shaving.
Someone say beard?
lots to choose from.
Obviously a misprint. The headline should read "Raul Onion..." Nothing new here; Che and Fidel have for decades been sex symbols to those on the Left.
Likewise.."A beard is the glory of its face."
"Bitch Rhino"
That's what I like about Jan--she was always clean shaven.
Yup. Pretty filthy. Bug breeding ground. Another reason I shave.
I saw a picture of Tom the other day, kissing Katie Holmes. You could just see the side/back of Tom and I swear to goodness it looked like Katie was kissing a slightly butch woman. I'll try to find it.
Jonathan Frakes in "The Algore Story"
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
EEEWWWW! Yuck.
I used to wear a full beard. Right now I have the 90s look--the goatee. For a while I also sported a mustache that some have told me looked Stalin-esque.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I hope the Roman look is finally dying. Beards/sideburns/stache are great ways to switch up one's look. For a while I tried to bring the Napoleon III Imperial back into style. I don't think the world is ready yet. I think the Stache by itself is my fave, and it's the hardest to get away with. I think it made me look too old--so I'll just have to resurrect it a few years down the road.
Wow, creepy is right.
Not the ring of dirt around the mouth thing is it?
Mine is something like this...
When I moved home from overseas I grew a goatee like this if a bit wilder. Next thing I knew, people were asking me for autographs. I had no idea who this guy was. The funny thing is, fans would tell me that I looked bigger on TV (the real Anvil being the better part of a foot taller and nearly 100lbs heavier)...
Not in our house. Everyone showers daily, and the men are clean shaven.
No, it's not like yours, the "Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart goatee"...there is a picture on my profile page, although taken from a distance. It's not stubble, but it's not something I can pull on either. Actually, this thread has inspired me to go for the full beard again. I've already got sideburns--I'll just go for the connection.
Or if you live in small town Texas the men with the beards might just be getting ready for Frontier Days which is celebrated the end of May and many men begin growing their beards in March. Very conservative men I might add.
Liberal men know all about "beards", being as they need female escorts to make them seem hetero...
Liberal men need to get rid of the earrings if they want to appear to be manly.
Looks like a dead fish hanging out of that sleeve.
FREE KATIE!
I've seen so many beards of a certain type that I automatically identify the wearers as left. That is the all over but very short beard, usually with rimless or wire glasses. Of the ones I have actually spoken with or heard, I have not been wrong.
Yikes! I see what you mean!
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