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RoadKingLarry

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A Bit of a Milestone.
« on: April 04, 2014, 01:56:39 PM »
Today marks 20 years since the last time my face was clean shaven.

That is all.
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2014, 02:10:39 PM »
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2014, 02:16:25 PM »
And in a few days it will be the 20th anniversary of my being laid off from American Rifleman magazine.
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2014, 03:27:43 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on April 04, 2014, 01:56:39 PM
Today marks 20 years since the last time my face was clean shaven.

That is all.

Let me know when you get to 40+.  I started three days before the end of my involuntary extension of enlistment.  Had even finagled a no-shave chit from a sympathetic corpsman, in keeping with my policy of bending every regulation known to the Men's Department of the US Navy.

I'm currently working on 5 years with no trimming of head nor beard.  Daily pooing (sham or real as the notion strikes me) but not a single hair cut.  Unfortunately, both ends of my head stop at about the 8-inch mark so it's a pretty poor hippie I would make.  Best I can do is get mistaken by young kids for Santa Claus until I start scowling at them and pull out my pocket notebook labled "Bad Boys and Girls".

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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2014, 04:13:41 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on April 04, 2014, 03:27:43 PM
Let me know when you get to 40+.  I started three days before the end of my involuntary extension of enlistment.  Had even finagled a no-shave chit from a sympathetic corpsman, in keeping with my policy of bending every regulation known to the Men's Department of the US Navy.

I'm currently working on 5 years with no trimming of head nor beard.  Daily pooing (sham or real as the notion strikes me) but not a single hair cut.  Unfortunately, both ends of my head stop at about the 8-inch mark so it's a pretty poor hippie I would make.  Best I can do is get mistaken by young kids for Santa Claus until I start scowling at them and pull out my pocket notebook labled "Bad Boys and Girls".

stay safe.

???

I thought the Navy allowed beards. Well, trimmed regulated beards, but still naval tradition and all that jazz.

I'm pretty sure my real father had a beard during his entire enlistment (at least, i know he did when he was with my mom, and I have photgraphic evidance)
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2014, 05:12:02 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on April 04, 2014, 01:56:39 PM
Today marks 20 years since the last time my face was clean shaven.

That is all.

Almost 38 years for me (June, 1976).

I think I had a mustache then even ....  =|
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2014, 05:13:40 PM »
Going on 4 years here.

Yes I'm a piker.
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2014, 05:46:13 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on April 04, 2014, 04:13:41 PM
???

I thought the Navy allowed beards. Well, trimmed regulated beards, but still naval tradition and all that jazz.

I'm pretty sure my real father had a beard during his entire enlistment (at least, i know he did when he was with my mom, and I have photgraphic evidance)

Lost that in the early '80s. '84 I think Navy wide. We got a new CO in late '83 and he nixed beards about a year ahead of the rest of the Navy.

I stopped shaving when I got out of the Navy in '92 but I took a job a year later that required shaving to keep the kids fed and the rent paid.

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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2014, 05:48:31 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on April 04, 2014, 05:46:13 PM
Lost that in the early '80s. '84 I think Navy wide. We got a new CO in late '83 and he nixed beards about a year ahead of the rest of the Navy.

I stopped shaving when I got out of the Navy in '92 but I took a job a year later that required shaving to keep the kids fed and the rent paid.



Oh, well that explains it. I was born in '84 and both my mother and father were out the year before that.
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2014, 06:21:25 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on April 04, 2014, 01:56:39 PM
Today marks 20 years since the last time my face was clean shaven.

That is all.

Shrug.   Since 1975.
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2014, 06:34:03 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on April 04, 2014, 04:13:41 PM
???

I thought the Navy allowed beards. Well, trimmed regulated beards, but still naval tradition and all that jazz.

I'm pretty sure my real father had a beard during his entire enlistment (at least, i know he did when he was with my mom, and I have photgraphic evidance)

Like Jamis, I was in the Men's Department of the Navy.

Beards, even in combat, were verboten.  Getting a no-shave chit required two acts of G*d and approval from just under the Commondant.  I got mine just by asking - could have gotten it a week earlier but would then had to have it laminated and hang it around my neck for everybody who would stop me to inquire where I had lost my razor.

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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2014, 07:54:24 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on April 04, 2014, 06:34:03 PM
Like Jamis, I was in the Men's Department of the Navy.

???

I thought Jamis was in the Munchkin Department?















































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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2014, 10:44:26 PM »
Quote from: lee n. field on April 04, 2014, 06:21:25 PM
Shrug.   Since 1975.

in 1975 I had a pretty good mustache for a 13 year old.
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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2014, 11:02:33 PM »
Working on 2 days here.   =)
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« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2014, 07:22:59 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on April 04, 2014, 11:02:33 PM
Working on 2 days here.   =)

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Just remember - "Day by day.  Inch by inch."

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Re: A Bit of a Milestone.
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2014, 11:21:59 AM »
Every weekend and any time I take leave, no blade touches my face.
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