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Monday, June 25, 2018
Alex knows how to exploit the latest market inefficiency. After the game, Bregman’s teammate Gerrit Cole had some thoughts, as passed along by MLB.com’s Brian McTaggart:
“After the game? During? I had no idea. I don’t pay attention to Alex’s shaving habits in the middle of the game. I did like the mustache, I thought it played. It was Jeff Kent-esque. It was on top of his lip when he stabbed that soft liner in the first inning, which got us out of a jam. Personally, I’m a fan of the ‘stache, but I guess it’s been sent down. It’s been DFA’d. We’ll wait until it comes back.”
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1. The Yankee Clapper Posted: June 25, 2018 at 03:55 PM (#5699338)midway through the reception, I decided - just for the hell of it - to shave off my goatee (hey, it was the 1990s, just go with it). I had a room in the hotel where the reception was held, so it was easy.
I hadn't seen the bride and at least a dozen other guests in a decade or so. given that and the fact that the champagne started kicking in with lightweight guests, it produced the desired confusion.
better still is that I have a twin brother who doesn't resemble me at all. since he couldn't make it, several befuddled people came up to me and addressed me by my brother's name. good times.
ok, in retrospect it was kind of dopey. harmless, though
Or so I'm told the next day.
It can have the opposite effect if you make a dumb joke about it to the wrong person. Years back, I went out with a girl a few times while sporting some scruff (me, not her). Then one day I came over clean shaven. When she commented that I looked like a totally different person, I said, "Yeah, the scruffy guy is my twin brother. We like to trade places sometimes so we get twice as many dates." I expected a, "Ha ha. Very funny," or something to that effect, but apparently she took me completely seriously and went off about how messed up that is, and how sick we were, etc, etc. After getting over my shock at her rant, I sheepishly said, "Um...that was a joke. I shaved."
Just interesting because, for all the technical advances in so many areas of life, shaving is still pretty basic. I don't think anything has ever seriously improved on the safety razor, though of course those cartridge razors can be fine.
Electric shavers with the adjustable clipper settings.
You ... shave your pants?
Also, I agree with you, my facial hair is dark and rough enough that if I don’t shave really close I just look like any other person who skipped a day of shaving. The modern stuff and electrics just don’t get the job done.
Smitty*, please report to the thread.
Not sure I would have been that optimistic about the third date at that point. I'm glad it worked out.
Yeah, she seemed a little embarrassed after that. Or at least that's what my twin brother told me after "my" next date with her! :-D
(j/k)
Micro Touch, if Google is accurate. I will see if I can find those. I may just be in the wrong part of the country. In any event, the days when you could get six major brands of double-edged blades at any drugstore are gone.
I need to shave every day, though my beard is perfectly white at this point, and being a pretty white guy to start with, it is not highly visible :) I was always among the youngest people in a group years ago, so I grew a beard when so I would look older. Now I am always among the oldest, and shave so that I'll look younger. Vanity
Nonsense! We've added one blade for every decade I've been alive. If current trends continue, the 6-blade disposable will be released soon.
And surely somebody's come up with a shaver that talks to your phone via a special app to remind you to shave, let you know it needs charging, etc.
My new AV receiver comes with a privacy policy and my rear derailleur has access to my phone's contacts so surely a shaver needs access to your location at all times so that it can access local temperature/humidity data to determine the precise level of stubble for max comfort.
So if you shave, you'll only look like you are 72? :)
When can we get you and your graying goatee over here for a game at WFF or one of the MiLB parks that surround Atlanta?
I remember, when two-bladed razors came out, there was a Saturday Night Live parody commercial about a three-blade razor, solemnly informing the audience that three blades shaved incredibly close. Shortly thereafter it would become inexplicable, when three blades became standard and then inadequate.
Don’t you hate pants? And shaving pants? And when pants hijack a perfectly good shaving thread?
Ed:
Nanny killing the Link so This
I first grew a beard in the fall of 1976, for a show I was in (a bad production of a mediocre play, sadly) and found that my skin improved dramatically and my face didn't hurt anymore. I'd always had trouble with ingrown hairs on my neck, and that problem totally disappeared.
I shaved the beard early in 1981 (decided I should get headshots both with and without the beard; went to a photographer, had her do a set of photos with beard, shaved, continued session without). My wife was kinda freaked out; even though I had been clean-shaven when we first met, she'd really gotten used to the beard. Well, I kept it off for a couple of months, but got sick of shaving and let it grow back. My face has not been seen since.
And the world is a better place.
Any time after next week, basically. As it happens, I have the week of July 9 off, but with any kind of advance notice I can almost always schedule a couple of days away from the office.
I've seen my dad without his moustache exactly once, about ten years ago, when he shaved it off for one day and immediately began growing it back. My main impression is that it immediately became clear how much my younger brother looks like him, which I'd never noticed before.
Anyway. I'm careful my beard never gets to unkempt and never looks gross, though I'm also not a person who sculpts his facial hair with any regularity. Occasionally I accidentally use the wrong extension on the clippers and I look almost clean-shaven. I just feel like I look like a weird, overgrown baby without my facial hair. Especially now that so much of it is silver, which you can't tell if I cut it off.
Can you find the old thread and bump it? I'm hopeless in doing so. That may be an easier way to get ahold of the other ATL folks. I have no travel scheduled until mid-August so anytime we can bend elbows, preferably at one of the parks ...
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