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Offline m19834

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Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
on: October 22, 2008, 01:30:24 PM
I am just thinking.  If it is true, then perhaps the more bearded an individual is, the more wise ?  Or, perhaps it's the other way around, actually ?  The less bearded, the more wise ?

In any case, if women are going to be having any envy over men ( ;)), my guess is that it's actually beard and moustache envy.  Just ask M., I wouldn't really know since I am just a living space and environment.

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #1 on: October 22, 2008, 01:50:30 PM
Beard = itch and twitch. 

itch and twitch = unfair comparisons to the Emperor Claudius, once thought to be an idiot.
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #2 on: October 22, 2008, 05:49:31 PM
Women can have beards.


Maybe it's the size of the beard that counts?  I see plenty of guys with little goaties who don't seem very wise.
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #3 on: October 22, 2008, 06:08:33 PM
Okay, but, perhaps it's the existence of any beard at all, even in a small portion, that actually decreases wisdom ?  So, it's not that a person with a goaties needs a bigger beard, instead they need it shaved off ?

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #4 on: October 22, 2008, 06:26:21 PM


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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #5 on: October 22, 2008, 08:06:55 PM
You mean you can't have a beard unless you're wise?

What about ZZ Top? :)
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #6 on: October 22, 2008, 08:10:42 PM
i find beards repulsive
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #7 on: October 22, 2008, 08:18:17 PM
Beards=Clever

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #8 on: October 22, 2008, 08:22:12 PM
Are beards and wisdom directly related ?

Yes! Most definitely!!   :D
The relation is quite simple--if there is a beard then there is wisdom (the size of the beard doesn't matter)  ;). Of course, as always, there are exceptions, which... only support the rule.

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #9 on: October 22, 2008, 08:57:17 PM
At the moment I have a beard, only because I can't be bothered to shave.  ::) :o

So at the moment, I am clever.  8)
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #10 on: October 22, 2008, 09:07:27 PM
There are exceptions of course.

Brahms had a beard and he was well thick.

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #11 on: October 22, 2008, 09:14:48 PM
Wow, my life really just makes so much more sense now.  All of this time, I have been getting these deep and profound intuitions that there was a direct relationships between beards and wisdom, but for decades and even centuries, I think, I didn't know for sure if it were actually true !  Imagine the agony !  :'(

Thank you so much for your assistance on these matters :).

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Reply #13 on: October 22, 2008, 09:38:34 PM
Wow, my life really just makes so much more sense now. 

I am glad to have been of assistance.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any more deep and meaningful questions.

I am a bit of a part time guru.

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #14 on: October 22, 2008, 09:53:56 PM
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I am a bit of a part time guru.

Which bit? And what does the guru in question think of this?
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Reply #15 on: October 22, 2008, 09:59:49 PM
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #16 on: October 22, 2008, 10:53:01 PM
I guess that means guys get wiser as the day goes on.  Five o'clock wisedom.


Aren't beard also associated with criminals?  Beards meaning they're hiding something.  You can't elect a politician with a moustache.  That sort of thing.

And just to throw it out there... Does that mean women can't be wise?


Would Bernhard have a beard?  He must.  Must... tache! :)

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #17 on: October 22, 2008, 10:58:07 PM
And doesn't the devil have a beard?  See, I don't think goaties should count.  Goaties mean deviousnessness.
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Reply #18 on: October 22, 2008, 11:01:14 PM
I guess that means guys get wiser as the day goes on.  Five o'clock wisedom.

hmmm ... Marik specifically said that size doesn't matter.

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Reply #19 on: October 22, 2008, 11:04:08 PM
How much of a beard does it take to be wise then?  (Bob considers growing a beard now.)

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #20 on: October 22, 2008, 11:05:59 PM
Maybe... it's the placement of the beard.  Chin and under the nose don't count.  Maybe it has to be on the checks.  Porkchops.  Maybe porkchops are the true sign of wisedom.
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #21 on: October 22, 2008, 11:27:23 PM
I fail to see how there could be a correlation between intelligence and the point at whice one severs the hair on their chin...
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #22 on: October 22, 2008, 11:35:55 PM
I fail to see how there could be a correlation between intelligence and the point at whice one severs the hair on their chin...

Perhaps that is precisely because you don't own a pet beard  :'(

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #23 on: October 23, 2008, 12:48:20 AM
I am glad to have been of assistance.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any more deep and meaningful questions.

I am a bit of a part time guru.

Thal

Thank you, Thal, that is a very kind offer :).

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #24 on: October 23, 2008, 01:40:25 AM
(Bob strokes non-existent beard.  Wait a sec...  Anyway....)

If one has a hairy posterior, does that make one a 'wise ass?'

Can one be a wise ass without having a hairy posterior?




Could one still be wise if one saves their beard hair?  Or would that just be really, really, reeeeally weird?  Or would that be a pet beard? 


One.

One one one one one.


(Bob looks around at this strange new area of the forum.  He shoos the bears away.  "Go away bears.  Don't even think about entering this thread for you are not wise.")
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #25 on: October 23, 2008, 01:48:22 AM
What if you have a false beard?  Is that false wisdom?



And aren't female dates called "beards" sometimes?  Does that mean if you go on a date, you're wise?

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #26 on: October 23, 2008, 01:49:07 AM
( K. also strokes air-beard)

Actually, a hairy posterior may still count as a beard if it doesn't matter where the beard is.  You know ?

Saving beard hair, that is a really good question ... in my wildest imaginations, I can't figure that anybody would ever consider that to be weird.  Let alone *really* weird.

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Reply #27 on: October 23, 2008, 01:55:40 AM
For a beard pet.  Get a few beards clippings and some duct tape and you're set.  Instant pet beard and loads of fun.

I'll let someone else be the first to try that and let everyone else know how it goes.
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #28 on: October 23, 2008, 02:01:22 AM
Yeah, but what do you actually feed a pet beard ?  Maybe I should start a "What is your pet beard eating right now ?" thread  ;D

Also, is the pet beard automatically wise ?  Or, does it have to grow its own beard ?

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #29 on: October 23, 2008, 02:07:32 AM
It would start off small and keep growing.  You would have a mouse sized pet beard.  Then a hamster sized pet beard.  Eventually moving into poodle-sized and so on.

If it had fleas, would those fleas be wise?

A pet beard should not be confused with the more common hair ball or dust bunny.
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #30 on: October 23, 2008, 02:18:59 AM
And if you do have a pet beard large enough to put on a leash and talk for a walk (dog-sized), the people who stop and stare are only in awe of your wiseness.

It is very unwise to get your pet beard mixed up with a pet bear though.  Highly unwise.
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Reply #31 on: October 23, 2008, 02:25:53 AM
How does Bob feel about beard enhancement surgery?
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #32 on: October 23, 2008, 02:32:36 AM
Good point.  What if Gandolf and Dumbledor used beard extensions?  Extra pieces of false beard clipped in for the appearance of wisedom?


Or get a beard transplant.  Beard hair plugs.

Or electrolosis.  Never have to shave again.  That wouldn't look very manly though.  If you could stop the beard hairs from growing and just freeze a fresh shave...  Would that be like a brain freeze?

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #33 on: October 23, 2008, 02:34:36 AM
I recently watched the german submarine film Das Boot about a submarine and it´s crew during WWII. There´s a journalist coming along on the trip and he´s taking pictures of the crew when they´re about to enter the sub. The captain tells him to wait with the photographs until they´ve returned home cause by then everyone would have grown a beard. And everyone grows a beard except one guy which is the antagonist and only guy among the crew who really deeply sympathizes with Hitler ideas. So in this case I´d say beards and wisdow are related. But it´s possibly more related to being manly or a fruit...And since men and wisdom doesn´t really correlate with each other all that much anymore in our postmodern age, I´d say beard and wisdom isn´t related unless the man is a homosexual.
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #34 on: October 23, 2008, 02:52:40 AM
So fruit can have beard?  Or is that mold?

Could an orange have a beard?  Or appear so if you drew some eyes on it while it was molding?


Dumbledore... Yeah.  I've heard about him.  He had a beard too and was wise.  Things are starting to make more sense now.  I'm wondering about Gandolf now... And not too many hobbits had beards... Hmmm....


This thread will make perfect sense to anyone who is very tired and does not have a beard.


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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #35 on: October 23, 2008, 03:19:07 AM
BTW, from what I remember, m1469 had a mustache and some point even a beard. I think that counts too...

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Reply #36 on: October 23, 2008, 03:50:26 AM
Maybe some wise men have no time to shave between thinking, so they grow their beards....
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #37 on: October 23, 2008, 09:01:14 AM
what about sideburns? do long sideburns count?
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #38 on: October 23, 2008, 09:10:38 AM
Maybe some wise men have no time to shave between thinking, so they grow their beards....

Does that mean they grow their hair and fingernails, too?
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #39 on: October 23, 2008, 01:37:28 PM
BTW, from what I remember, m1469 had a mustache and some point even a beard. I think that counts too...

Hey, that's right!  And look what happened to m1469:  she morphed into Karli.

So, here's the test:  Is the beardless K wiser than the bearded m1469?
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #40 on: October 23, 2008, 01:49:50 PM
What if you have a false beard?  Is that false wisdom?

Artificial intelligence perhaps...
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #41 on: October 23, 2008, 05:53:46 PM
BTW, from what I remember, M. had a mustache and some point even a beard. I think that counts too...

:):)

Hey, that's right!  And look what happened to M.:  she morphed into Karli.

So, here's the test:  Is the beardless K wiser than the bearded M.?

hmmm ... I don't know :).  Though, one may question what kind of wisdom does a M. really have to let herself become bearded in the first place ?

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Reply #42 on: October 23, 2008, 06:22:47 PM


I propose to christen this style the "***" beard.
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #43 on: October 23, 2008, 11:27:05 PM
I possess a (not particularly fine) example of the former and can therefore confirm that there is less than no guarantee that such possession is directly related to the latter.

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #44 on: October 23, 2008, 11:30:05 PM
If you have two or three chins... You could double or triple your wisedom.


I ran into a bearded guy today. Very smart, but I'm not sure about the wisedom part.


And porkchops are sideburns. I think.  Similar at least.  If sideburns are a sign of wisedom, what does that make Elvis?


A more serious question...
Wisedom and women?  Can women be wise?  Is that in our culture?  Because it's easy to think of wise men.  Three wisemen, the bible.  Gandolf.  Dumbledore.  Maybe Santa Claus.  Are there any famous wise women?  Or is it called something else when women are wise?
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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #45 on: October 24, 2008, 02:45:54 AM
If you have two or three chins... You could double or triple your wisedom.


I ran into a bearded guy today. Very smart, but I'm not sure about the wisedom part.


And porkchops are sideburns. I think.  Similar at least.  If sideburns are a sign of wisedom, what does that make Elvis?


A more serious question...
Wisedom and women?  Can women be wise?  Is that in our culture?  Because it's easy to think of wise men.  Three wisemen, the bible.  Gandolf.  Dumbledore.  Maybe Santa Claus.  Are there any famous wise women?  Or is it called something else when women are wise?

 ::) There are related cases where a infant was born with 2 or 3 chins

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Re: Are beards and wisdom directly related ?
Reply #46 on: October 24, 2008, 05:40:49 AM
Einstein only needed a moustache

Tom Sellick too...



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Reply #47 on: October 24, 2008, 11:07:22 AM
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Reply #48 on: October 24, 2008, 02:06:44 PM
What about the terrorists?  They have beards.
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