Monday, November 19, 2007

Start Making Sense Pt 1 - Chinstrap Beards


What in the name of Dr Mop are chinstrap beards all about?

Fair enough if you're a Quaker, Amish or just enjoy dressing like Windy Miller, but anyone else - why?? Even morris dancers don't go gadding around in their ribbons, bows and pig's bladder balloons away from the village green/pub car park. I can understand the solid earthiness of a full beard, even the neatly clipped precision of a 'tache. But chinstraps - why??And the haircut of choice that the chin strapped chap seems favour with his beardy based version of a comb over is usually

A - geometric pudding bowl fringe
B - bald/shaven

Check out the hyperkinetic ball of sexual tension that is Jospeh here,this is all genuine with no tweakage (apart from the italics)


"I grew my beard because I got bored with being the clean cut look and figured it would be interesting -- plus when some of the women at work complained too much,

what did he do?

"I knew I was onto something- they may deny it, but we all know they love it. ;)"

Not sure I like the no means yes tone there J


"Can't have a mustache though, because I am a tuba player, The downside is that it is freaking hot in summer - "

Aaaaaahh - so that'll be why you're naked in a photo booth then?

"the upside is that I spend winters in Finland, where it works great at keeping the wind off my cheeks. :) "

Upside for who - your Floridian neighbours, the girls at work - surely not the good people of Finland who get Oddbod flying in for a full winters worth of tooting on his tuba.?


So there you go forget Facebook, Bebo and other social networking sites Beards.org is where the hot action is frying tonight.

3 comments:

BLTP said...

chief offender Mr Michael "my farm's not covered in mud this is the best glasto ever" Eavis. I have thought however of shaving the back of my head and growing chinstrap beard in loop around my face !!! Can I also mention the neck beard ie cheeks, top lip and chin clean shaven nape of neck bushy as you like urrrggghhh!

Mondo said...

I forgot about Eavis - he looks like one of the seven dwarfs, Santa's little helper or as if he should be fishing from toadstool.

Have a peep here for some hirsute howlers I think I'll be going for the 'French Fork' this winter

http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Image:Beardindex.jpg

Anonymous said...

mr Neil 'you sure got a purrdy mouth' Young has been known to sport a strapping ... eerr strap... in his time too

'bleech' with forgotten password on someone else's computor