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From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [COFF] Beards (was: Bearded Fellow, Ken Thompson)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:54:02 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210119005402.GM95151@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2101181547020.7448@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>

[moved to COFF]

On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 15:47:48 -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> (When I met my future wife I was 21, and she wanted me to grow a beard, so
>> I did.  Since then I have occasionally asked cow orkers who have complained
>> about shaving why *they* don't grow beards: the most common answer is "My
>> wife doesn't want me to."  *My* wife doesn't believe this story.)
>
> I actually had to shave for a while specifically because of my
> then-girlfriend, so... ;p I can see that.

Early on I made a decision that no woman could make me shave my
beard, and I stuck to it.  Not that the beard was more important, but
if she wanted it gone, she was looking at the wrong things.

Greg
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