razorfree wrote:
I say grow it untouched

I hear you, RF.  Maybe after I retire.  It would be cool to see how long it will grow.  I have a photo taken around 1910 of one of my 2nd gt grandfathers who fought in the Civil War.  Like so many veterans of that war, he kept his beard after he returned home and let it grow to terminal length which was well below his waist.

I have a story about him with which I'm sure some, if not all here, can sympathize.  His youngest daughter was born when he was in his fifties.  One day when she was about four, she trimmed off five inches of his beard with a pair of scissors while he was napping.

She only made it halfway across when he woke up and caught her.  He then cursed a blue streak as he trimmed the rest of the way across to even it up.  She was shaking in her boats, but was also very young and very cute, so all she got for her crime was a "that wasn't a very nice thing to do", but she always felt terrible for doing it.

Those vets wore their beards with more pride than any medal, so I can guess how much it hurt to have to finish snipping what she started.  The moral of that story is, if you have small children or grandchildren running about, make sure you hide the scissors before you take a nap.  smiley: eek

"He adorned man like the lions, with a beard...", St Clement of Alexandria
Days of growing my beard
“Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.”  - Screwtape (a senior demon),  The Screwtape Letters (1942) by C. S. Lewis

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