Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Beards

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Beards

Bathroom Cowboy

I don't, for some reason, grow a beard quickly. This one's 2 weeks old. In that length of time my three boys would have beards you could grab hold of. Hell, maybe even my daughter could too. Nah. This is the longest I've ever gone without shaving at all. MoSup does not like the look, but since every other body part has quit on me, I'm going to reward the lone hard worker by giving it free reign. There's another incentive too. I'm waiting for one of the western states most likely to assert state's rights; Texas, Arizona or Oklahoma, to do it. When I show up to help out, I want to blend in; not look like some effete city slicker. I think the cowboy hat (rollover) adds dignity and fearsomeness to an otherwise scroungy look, wot? Being a bathroom cowboy is better than being a bathroom athlete, what with the shame, and all.

Rodger the Real King of France 8/10/2010 01:15:00 PM 20 Comments

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Anonymous said...: I like the hat!
Tim; 8/10/10, 1:28 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: Ahh, a face for radio... or Facebook :D You'd prolly look good in a hat like mine, too.; 8/10/10, 1:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Can't lead The Barn Army without the proper facial hair. Kim du Toit would be pleased.

Burgie; 8/10/10, 1:36 PM
Anonymous said...: Looks good Rodger.
what I find hard to fathom is why any free man will hold a blade to his own throat every morning and tie a noose around his neck... just to please the rest of society.
RAK; 8/10/10, 2:45 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: pleasing society -- that's the answer .. if you want to play in the business world, there are certain expectations. I worked for a company which dress code was

1. business suit
2. white shirt
3. Wing tips
4. business tie
5. hair cut above the ears
6. no facial hair
7. No exceptions

I was told, and later passed it on to those under me this truth. You will never alienate a buyer by dressing conservatively. Alternatively, you run that risk.; 8/10/10, 3:37 PM
Juice said...: You look pretty cute with or without the hat. Beard, no beard? I'm with MoSup on that when my husband was growing one this summer. In the end I explained that it made him look older...not more dignified. What? He has a nice face that I like to see and get close too. :]; 8/10/10, 3:57 PM
Anonymous said...: After it grows some more and you can see what you got, so to speak, a little judicious trim around the sparse edges will dress it up. Tell Mo Sup to be a little patient, and she'll have a new très distingué guy around the house.
When the younger chicks comment on how much they like it, she'll have pride of ownership. And unlike tattoos and plastic surgery, it's very easy to undo. Stay with it for a couple more weeks.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 8/10/10, 4:03 PM
B....... said...: Nice try Rodge - I've been around here long enough to know you got that picture out of an old Sears and Roebuck catalog. Quite manly though.......; 8/10/10, 4:20 PM
Anonymous said...: If my hubby shaved off his mustache after 26 years of seeing him with it - I might not let him in the house!

Who knows what might be hiding under that?
TFV; 8/10/10, 4:39 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: Since the late '80s, I've always pretty much kept it around the un-kept 5-o'clock shadow stage except for once when back before 9-11, I let it grow out for 3 to 4 weeks. I found it to be too damned annoying and too much of a pain in the ass to keep neat, so I cut it all off - to Momma's delight. I tried the Zappa goatee look once before that, but I had people mistaking me for a dope smoking, latte sipping libtard. That was enough to put an end to that shit. BTW, for your amusement and in honor of this occasion - if that picture above really is TRKOF - I swapped out my hangman avatar with my FB profile pic. IMHO, the brown leather redneck hat would suit you better than shit-kicker white... just sayin'.; 8/10/10, 4:45 PM
JeremyR said...: My last wife never saw me with out a beard, and the next one aint gonna either.
When my middle brother got out of hte USAF, he immediately started on a beard. several years later when brother #2 got hitched, his bride to be wrote to the bearded one and told him that if he was to nbe part of the wedding party, he would have to shave. A week later, a large bag of wiskers arrived in hte mail. on hte wedding eve, he arrived with a freshly grown beard.
Eventually he married, settled down and had kids. One day he landed his dream job. His new boss informed him that he would need to shave. he went home, entered hte bathroom and twenty minutes later emerged clean shaven. his teenage son took one look and told him to not let mom see him, she'd divorce him and flee screaming in terror. Worst of it is, he was the cute one of us kids.; 8/10/10, 4:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Screw the beard....I'm lookin' at a pretty good head of hair for an old guy!; 8/10/10, 5:26 PM
gregor said...: I decided a few weeks ago to grow a full beard, instead of sporting the VanDyke I've had for the past ten years or so... I don't think mine is as far along as your's. Damnedest thing, the hair on my head grows an inch a week, but my face is like a baby's ass...; 8/10/10, 6:24 PM
Anonymous said...: I've worn a beard continuously since 1977. I look like a cross between a retired Viking and a part time grizzly-bear. A well-groomed one, but still...

Fortunately, I am in a profession where there are few of us. A result of this has been that I've never had the misfortune of being told I had to look like a metrosexual with a butler's bell-pull knotted around my neck.

- the friendly grizzly; 8/10/10, 8:59 PM
Jim - PRS said...: I'd love to wear a cowboy hat, but every time I've ever tried one on, I look like a Jewish dentist named "Mel," wearing a cowboy hat.; 8/10/10, 9:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Funny... you don't look like a birther.; 8/10/10, 10:00 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: like this?
http://tinyurl.com/2fo2l3n; 8/10/10, 10:11 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Non-birther n.
A cognitive disorder manifested by a near total absence of Critical Thinking Skills (CTS).

synonyms: Obamunist, Democrat. Liberal, zombie, corpse

Source: The American Association of Explaining; 8/10/10, 10:31 PM
JMcD said...: http://tinyurl.com/2fo2l3n from above......

The first time I ever saw Bob Dylan was on a tv amatuer talent show the origin location of which I don't know.
He was using the handle "Denver Bob" (NOT Bob Denver), and I thought he was an unusual and talented entertainer.; 8/11/10, 2:51 PM
Chrys said...: If you come to TX, Rodger, don't wear your cowboy hat while driving.
It seems to transform driving skills to nil down here.; 8/11/10, 6:47 PM

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