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ray a

More important stuff....

From MSN: "...the mustache is empowering, it's attention-grabbing, and it's back."

How many of you have a mustache? Ladies, you may answer too.

ACU Frank

Shaved it off for a few weeks in '94. My wife made me grow it back.

allsteaks

Had mine since 1970 or 1971; was in the Navy and couldn't let my hair grow long, so grew this thing. Wife and kids have never seen me without it!
Tried a beard and goatee a few times but it started coming in too gray so quit.

ray a

I've had beards, goatees, mustaches. But now just the chin part of a goatee - not sure what that would be called. Shaved the mustache off several years ago when I got serious about the trombone and I realized I could play better without it. Steaks, my facial hair is at least 90% gray. I don't care anymore. It helps hide the double chin.

I have it on good authority that Joannie has a killer mustache.

Dutch2

Had a mustache most all of my adult life until about 10 -11 years back. Shaved it off and have not had one since. My oldest boy and I both went nearly two full weeks without shaving on a recent vacation. Sure was tempting to keep the mustache just for old times sake. 'course it was nealy all grey. Which is fine. I tell my boys that I have earned every grey hair I have while in the process of raisin' them and therefore, I wear them as a badge of honor..

ACU Frank

Actually, the chin part IS the goatee. When you have the "mustache-connected-to-the-beard-but-the-beard-NOT-connected-to-the-sideburns" it's called a Vandyke. Unless, of course, you're talking about a little bit under the lower lip - the "soulpatch".

HRQ

Hey Joannie, the boys are talking about man-fashion and the various facial hairdos, as if there is all that much of a difference between a goatee and a van dyke.

And they make fun of women for having several pair of black pumps, which are all quite different, as we know.

ray a

So Q, tell us about your stache......

joannie

Obviusly, we women-folk have much more to do than to spend time discussing where or where not we shave.

ray a

Jo, is it true that at your company picnic the truckers voted on who had the best stache and sideburns and you won?

FunHRBanker

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 02-04-08 AT 02:38PM (CST)[/font][br][br]As a woman of the generation X, mustaches SCREAM '70s and '80s to me and aren't very attractive on most men. Tom Selleck is the exception. I much prefer a mustache-connected goatee or a very close beard (kind of like trimmed 5 o'clock shadow). My brother-in-law has the chin goatee and can pull that off. Soul patch, call it what you want...what's the point?

There is a woman in our office (who happens to be in my generation) who gets a wicked beard about every 2 weeks. Then she has it waxed and looks great. If it were me, I'd keep up with that. We're not in the circus here!

joannie

Is it true men grow beards and mustaches, and then talk about them, to compensate for other attributes which they are lacking?:-?

ray a

OK, you got me Jo. I admit I do not have a strong Jay Leno type chin and the goatee helps compensate for that lack.

ACU Frank

Can anybody else here believe Molly just used the term "flavor saver"?

HRQ

Flavor saver is a new term for me. I'll have to use it next time I see one. It took me ages to realize that the fuzzy spot below the lower lip wasn't just a spot accidentally missed when shaving.

Fun, be sure to add various facial hair styles to your Dress Code power point. Use photos of our male Forum friends for the "don't" section.

Ray, my 'stache is (naturally) blonde and peach-fuzzy. I am not ashamed.

ray a

You should not have admitted to that, Q. Now Paul will be jealous as he is facially follically challenged.

HRQ

Facial disgracial.

Borrowed that term from Paul himself. x:-)

ACU Frank

He probably went through the second semester of his senior year of high school with one of those patchy neckbeards, then finally figured out it was never going to fill in.

HRQ

Patchy Neckbeard sounds like a Pirate name. x:D

ACU Frank

Patchy Neckbeard could be Raggedy Ann's secret redneck lover. Raggedy Andy thinks Patchy is just Ann's mechanic, but he's sure "checking under her hood" a lot!

HRQ

I bet some of the younger folk have no idea who Raggedy Ann and Andy are.

Speaking of feeling old... The other day, Hot for Teacher by Van Halen was playing. A younger coworker had never heard the song before. I told her it was by Van Halen and she pointed out that it didn't sound like Sammy Hagar. She had no idea who Diamond Dave was.

Someone else brought up U2. Another person said "that's so 90's." Evidently they didn't realize that U2 started to be pretty big in the early-to-mid 80's.

ACU Frank

Not to mention the guy who came after Hagar...

In my book, VanHalen died when Roth left. Valerie Bertinelli is looking hot again, though.

FunHRBanker

I remember Ragedy Ann and Andy! I preferred Strawberry Shortcake.

I thought my flavor savor comment might get me in hot water (AKA edited) but it seems that it was left for educational purposes

allsteaks

Either some people have not thought through the term, perhaps not knowing it goes beyond a facial hair description, or they have politely passed over it. I couldn't think of anything that wasn't crass or nasty.

FunHRBanker

I aplogize if my description offended you. That's what I've always heard it refered to as.

NaeNae55

I am very old fashioned and out of it I guess. I had to go look at an urban dictionary to be sure you guys were talking about what I suspected you were talking about. Sorry I looked.

To comment on an earlier post from Fun:

Here is the obvious difference between the generations. I love a mustache, and have always talked my hubby into growing his back whenever he has shaved it. I think it makes him look strong and manly.

A full and neatly trimmed beard can make a man appear more intelligent and wise. The current look which Fun likes (looks like they haven't shaved in a few days) I put on a par with the pants young men are wearing these days. I say either grow the beard or shave it off, and either wear pants that fit or buy a skirt. I don't want to see your underwear. I dont' want to see your pants crotch down between your knees, and I don't want to see you needing a shave. It just looks lazy and unkempt (I have to wonder if you bothered to shower).

On a lighter note my husband has grown a beard a few times, especially in winter. About 15 years ago he gave them up. He had a nice red beard growing when it started to go white. Not as you might think, but in a steady line. Everything below the line was white, and everything above it was red. It started at the base of his throat and moved up. It was very peculiar to look at, especially when it was at chin level. When the line got up to lip level I asked him to shave it. He looked too much like a clown. This all happened in a period of about 2 months. It is all white now, but he no longer wishes to wear one (I wonder why?..lol).

Paul in Cannon Beach

What? I am follically challenged? I can grow a mustache by the end of the day. I can grow a beard too. Its just a wee bit scraggly. And reddish.

Call me Redbeard. ARrrggh!

ray a

What is it with red beards? When I was a kid like Paul, my beard was red too.

HRQ

Ummmm.... I truly had no idea flavor saver had another meaning. I thought, well, it had something to do with food getting in there, and that it was just facial hair. I swear to Dog I am blushing right now. x:-8 I am not offended, however. Just embarrassed that I didn't know.

[b]Ray, if you make fun of me more than is absolutely necessary here, I am going to kick you in the shins.[/b]

ray a

Q, I still don't get it. Can you explain it in detail to me. I guess I'm just too old to understand these new terms.

HRQ

Nope, I won't explain it. But I also won't kick you in the shins.