Another fascinating thread on X Marks!

My DH tried growing a beard after our first trip to Colorado--it's that mountain man thing, ya know! He found that maintaining it in a business style was every bit as much trouble, if not more, than daily shaving. So he went back to shaving.

My mother has a thing against beards, so it's just as well that my father's Native American genes keep him from growing much of any beard at all. I think some men look quite grand in trimmed beards, but for Native Americans it has no identity with manhood at all.

The Jesus without a beard is as funny as Jesus in trousers. The makeup comeback is a keeper. I guess I'll never understand people who think you are just dying to have their opinions of you.

I have never seen Cold Mountain because it isn't my kind of movie, but my DH was flipping channels (as usual ) last night, & there was a scene of a man trying to shave with a knife. The whole place was covered with snow, but he was outside slicing his face left & right. One of the women had to come & shave his face for him. I thought that was really out of period as I think a normal man would simply have forgone the shaving altogether in that kind of weather.

Sherry