Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 02, 2024

gimme all your lovin’

all your hugs and kisses too

gimme all your lovin’

don’t let up until we’re through

— ZZ Top

Said the man with a beard,

“It’s just as I feared.

Two owls and a hen,

Four larks and a wren

have all made their nests in my beard."

Through this veil

Of toil and sin

Your head grows bald

Bit not your chin

—Burma Shave

Or if your comb-over starts in the back……..

Goatee yes … Full beard no ;-)

Furtunately me is still gots hairs on me bear head.

The Lord has obvious opinions about where I grow hair. Why argue?

Looks a little like the current David Letterman.

Have you noticed that facial hair never makes any man look younger?

Santa is a plugger

imho full beard and bald head is this age’s mullet

A couple of birds have nested somewhere in there.

The beard I’ve had since H.S. I’ve shaved it off only four times since, for parts. For example: Daddy Warbucks didn’t have a beard. I started going bald in college. By my mid-thirties, I realized I was paying the then outrageous sum of $25.00 every few weeks for five minutes of “ring trimming”. Shaved my head, but kept the beard. It’s been my look since the ’90’s.

It provides balance to the face.

At some point, many try the comb-up-over but it’s hard to see out.

We have a dear old grandpa, for whom we nightly pray. He has a set of whiskers that are always in the way. Oh, they’re always in the way! The cows eat them for hay! We all love grandpa’s whiskers but they’re always in the way.

Here comes Santa Claus

Here comes Santa Claus

Right down Santa Claus Lane

Vixen and Blitzen and all his reindeers pulling on the reins

I wonder about those guys whose mustache completely covers their mouths. How do they eat? Bob Weir has that look now, like the cowboy on the Pure Prairie League album covers.

Pluggers have three possible haircuts: left parted, right parted, or departed.

It’s not so much compensation as taking a new approach to hirsuteness.

He could get a job as a mall Santa in a flash.

Or vice-versa.

That’s hipsters. pluggers beards are grotesque reositorities of bad diner meals.

Being 18th century reenactors – he has no beard and long hair tied into a “que” aka pony tail