Let's all grow mustaches and beards

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I plan to begin a lucky postseason shaving strike just as soon as I return from a biztrip next Thursday.

I tend to grow patchy Amish-style facial hair that comes out red -- and now some grey! -- and promise you I'll look and feel as ugly as I want to Mets to win as the playoffs start.

Who's with me?!?

Hello?

[Guest cooby]

Well, I'm not.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Cooby's gonna keep shaving???

I haven't shaved since November of 2000. (Other than my throat and cheeks.) This is the first time the Mets have made the postseason while I've been wearing facial hair.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]I haven't shaved since November of 2000.

See, it's working already.

[soupcan]

No can do, Boo.

I've got high holy days and then there's that pesky little job.

I'm with ya in spirit though.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I've got a sick-guy beard going already.

[metirish]

Well I've not shaved today so maybe I won't all weekend.....go Mets.

[Guest sharpie]

I don't shave on weekends or vacations. When in Italy last summer I didn't shave for 3 weeks. It came in with a lot of grey. I considered keeping it but ended up shaving the night before I went back to work.

My biggest problem, however, is that Mrs. sharpie hates the beard.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The reason I grew my beard is because I got sick of shaving. I was standing in front of the mirro and had picked up the shaving cream and the razor when I realized I didn't want to do it. So I put down the shaving cream and the razor and walked away.

Somehow that resulted in a mustache and a beard.

[Guest cooby]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Cooby's gonna keep shaving??? .

It's a household rule

[nymr83]

]I've got high holy days and then there's that pesky little job.

thats 3 days right there that you arent allowed to shave anyway, you've got a great head start! who cares what work thinks? i've used the Omer excuse for not shaving in the past.

[MFS62]

And if they can you for the beard, think of the great lawsuit you'd have.

I used to have a full beard. But working around the garden in the Summer made it all sweaty. So I decided to shave it off.
Bad decision - I looked like a raccoon for a while until my suntan equalized.

Later

[Vic Sage]

well, Johnny, you know I'M with ya!!
In fact, I'm already past ya!

[soupcan]

Nymr83 wrote: ]I've got high holy days and then there's that pesky little job. thats 3 days right there that you arent allowed to shave anyway, you've got a great head start! who cares what work thinks? i've used the Omer excuse for not shaving in the past.

Yeah I've tried that argument in the past. The Almighty's on my side but I answer to a higher authority - my wife.

[Gwreck]

No can do. Gotta use whatever leverage is possible to get out of work for potential afternoon playoff games.

[Willets Point]

I don't really grow facial hair. It just looks like I kind of have newsprint on my face if I don't shave for four or five days.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That's very chic these days. Every photo I saw from the Emmys this year had a guy with a grey chin.

[Frayed Knot]

I just got rid of the one I had for the last 3 or 4 years (which followed years of doing a winter-on/summer-off thing) mainly because that's where all the grey guys were congregating.
Congregating hell, they had plum taken over!

[RealityChuck]

Too late for me:


Here I am hanging out with MFY fans.

[MFS62]

If I had to hang out a lot with Yankee fans, I'd grow my beard back as a disguise.

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Well, this isn't going well but for the pre-bearded.

If you're too scared of your wife, your religion or your boss to walk around looking stupid for a couple weeks, then I urge you to take up some other foolish gesture with playoff mojo implications.

Ya wussies.

[Willets Point]

The only thing necessary for good mojo is that Vic keeps his ass covered for the entire month of October.

[MFS62]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: If you're too scared of your wife, your religion or your boss to walk around looking stupid for a couple weeks, then I urge you to take up some other foolish gesture with playoff mojo implications.

I have. I finally found a new "good luck" sitting position for watching Mets games. MMYF threw me a curve by getting new furniture and throwing out my recliner.

Later

[Guest cooby]

She didn't discuss it with you first?

[soupcan]

I can grow a beard and mustache fine but sideburns want no part of me.

[MFS62]

cooby wrote: She didn't discuss it with you first?

Of course I tried.
But to no avail.
There's no winning when you argue with a Yankee fan.

Later

[Guest cooby]

Cold.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Well, this isn't going well but for the pre-bearded. If you're too scared of your wife, your religion or your boss to walk around looking stupid for a couple weeks, then I urge you to take up some other foolish gesture with playoff mojo implications. Ya wussies.

I'm with you, damn it. I've got a little less than a week's worth on my face now and it's going nowhere. Shaving sucks anyway.

I'm in like Daryl Boston.

[seawolf17]

Already have the vandyke going... if I grew the full beard I'd look too much like my dad, which would freak me out. (I look enough like him already... one friend from high school who I haven't seen in years told me, after looking at MiiniWolf's web page, "I don't really remember your dad, but you look just like I remember him." That's close enough for me.)

I'll let my nose hairs grow instead. (Or maybe I'll go all Rollie Fingers handlebar moustache.)

[Guest KC]

I just shaved off five days worth this morning ... too many greys.

Mertle, get me Clyde Frazier on the phone pronto.