Let's all grow mustaches and beards

[Lundy]

I'll go in, but I was planning on putting the (electric) razor down on the day the playoffs begin.

[soupcan]

seawolf17 wrote: Already have the vandyke going...

Difference between a vandyke and a goatee?

[seawolf17]

I think technically, the goatee is just the chin; the vandyke is the goatee and moustache. Everybody uses goatee for the whole thing, because (a) vandyke sounds dumb, and ( neither Dick nor Jerry had one.

[Guest Herb Gardner]

Gonna do it.

[Willets Point]

Herb! Holy Shit, where have you been the past 4 months? We were just starting to get to know you when you vanished.

[Guest Herb Gardner]

Harvest time.

[soupcan]

seawolf17 wrote: I think technically, the goatee is just the chin; the vandyke is the goatee and moustache. Everybody uses goatee for the whole thing, because (a) vandyke sounds dumb, and ( neither Dick nor Jerry had one.

Coupla things -

Vandyke does not sound dumb, it sounds cool. Super cool in fact.

When the vandyke/goatee craze first hit in the cearly 90's it was me that started it. I was the first. Same thing in the early '80s with the RayBan Wayfarer sunglasses. Had 'em BEFORE 'Risky Business'.

When I grew that first goatee in like 1989-90 my European mother's first response was 'Oh, you grew a vandyke'.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

According to Wikipedia, a Van Dyck is a kind of goatee:

]Goatee styles Musketeer - a small, pointed goatee with an English moustache (narrow, prominent), as worn by the French mousquetaires Van Dyck - a thick goatee and moustache with upturned ends, as worn by the 17th century Flemish painter, Sir Anthony van Dyck. In modern usage, a Van Dyck is often any moustache and goatee combination

[metirish]

I suck,I'm already itching to shave.I think the longest I have gone without shaving is about five gays.

ok I meant days.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The itching won't last much longer.

[Vic Sage]

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

wow. WP tosses off a reference that goes back, back, back, waaaaay back!

So, in the spirit of the moment, I'll not only agree to KEEP my beard and mustache on (as if i'd ever shave it!), bull I also pledge that i shall not de-pantsify myself in the vicinity of a Mets game, whether live or televised.

so let it be written, so let it be done!

[Willets Point]

Vic Sage wrote: ="Willets Point"]The only thing necessary for good mojo is that Vic keeps his ass covered for the entire month of October. wow. WP tosses off a reference that goes back, back, back, waaaaay back!

Back to the last time the Mets were in the postseason and your barebottom jinxed them. You think we'd forget something like that?

[MFS62]

Vic Sage wrote: . so let it be written, so let it be done!

Wrong holiday (or was it the movie?).
But we appreciate the sentiment.

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Lundy wrote: I'll go in, but I was planning on putting the (electric) razor down on the day the playoffs begin.

That's absolutely kosher! I'm only starting early cuz I've barely reached puberty and need a head start.

[metirish]

] so let it be written, so let it be done!

Vic is qouting "creeping death" from Metallica....kinda cool for an old guy

[Guest KC]

Vic hates hard rock, Metallica's quoting the bible or something.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Vic hates the Bible. He's quoting Rameses in The Ten Commandments.

[Guest KC]

I knew it wasn't a heavy metal band. Vic and I have polar tastes on
gain, distortion, and reverb.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Thought it was Dan Bern.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I thought it was Stan Lee.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Maybe everyone should shave now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I shaved heartily this morning --- performance review and all. I'll grow out for the playoffs. I just hope they last long enough for my beard to come in.

[soupcan]

Meanwhile I will now grow a beard.

Reverse karma baby!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Was obliviously enjoying an extra long hot shower yesterday when I realized I was absentmindedly shaving. It was only day 2, so no huge loss.

[soupcan]

I now have nice l'il goatee going and not so coincidentally it has coincided with the Mets modest 3-game streak.

It has also coincided with the Pedro-Lastings-Trachsel debacles, but hey wins are wins.

[Bunt the First Two]

How I love my Mets Beard
Which grows out of my face
It takes us through the playoffs
Since we came in firstest place

But my woman says I'm prickly
Too roughened now to kiss
"But that's my Mets Beard, Baby
Makes Nomar swing and miss"

I'll ever love you, Mets Beard
You understand me well
For the mystic ways you help my team
No human tongue can tell

But my boss says I look grubby
A vagrant and a slob
I tell them of the base hits
My beard helped Shawn Green rob

Let them hate us, Mets Beard
For you I give a shout
As I listen to the Mets win
As my desk I'm cleaning out

But my kids say that I'm scary
That I don't look like Dad
Perhaps more like Pat Zachry
But how could that be bad?

But you'll not leave me, Mets Beard
Though others turn away
You power lends precision
To each Reyes double play

And each double hit by Beltran
Wright's bat and Glavine's arm
You send the Mets your power
And send the rivals harm

So be my wife, sweet Mets Beard
Be my job and child
Be my raison d'etre
Make my visage wild

Somehow, someway we matter
When the Mets are winning games
Floyd, Martinez, Valentin
And the other hallowed names

And when at last I shave you
With the pennant on the wall
I'll have naught left there with me
To share this awesome fall

I'll return you to the cosmos
Your power to dispense
Of mighty magic strikeouts
And balls hit o'er the fence

I'll restart my life clean-shaven
No job or family, true
But I'll wear the hat of champions
Of Metly royal blue

[Guest cooby]

that's my Mets Beard, Baby

That's a great poem!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

That was fantastic-al.

[Theoldmole]

I loved it.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Nice to see you Bunt