Just for some Leninist fun,

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Here is the near-end result of my winter long full beard growing experiment. (a few chops away from ending the experiment entirely) Kinda sad. But mundane proletariat employment calls.

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[MADem]

1. The hat is a nice touch, as is the tint on the photo!

I feel like I'm about to be sent off to the gulag by a functionary of the regime!

Good job on the whiskers--why do you feel you must get rid of them? Are they not to your taste, or will they interfere with an oxygen breathing apparatus or something on those lines?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. I have a job interview

this week with a very humorless conservative bunch, so I'll play it safe. The beard was just some practical fun for the very long cold winter.

[MADem]

5. Hell, lose the hat, and you might pass for professorial!

Just don't answer their questions with "Da" and "Nyet!"

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. I always enjoyed playing around with my hair

head and facial while I was in college. One winter I had a lovely set of mutton-chops, and in my ADN nursing photo that hangs on the wall at the university, I'm sporting a Fu Manchu moustache that looks like it hangs halfway down my throat. (Optical illusion, the individual hairs are still fairly short, I just shaved the area to leave strips of hair growing in those two rows long enough for the pic )

And on the day I defended my doctoral dissertation, iirc, I wandered around the department with a regular head of hair in the morning, went home at lunch and shaved my head down to the skin before returning that afternoon to present.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. Nice job Joe...........

Nice resemblance to Vladimir Ilych.