The picture that is below this sentence is a sad picture.
The facts that are below this sentence aren’t really that great, but I wrote them already, so…here they are:
- Benjamin Harrison was the last president to wear a full beard.
- No president since Taft has had facial hair. Don’t let it get you down, though, because Obama’s all about change and I have a hunch that this will include reintroducing beards into the White House.
- “A man without a moustache is like a cat without a tail.” - Arab Saying
- “Men may not destroy the hair of their beards and unnaturally change the form of a man. For the Law says, “You will not deface your beards.” For God the Creator has made this decent for women, but has determined that it is unsuitable for men.” Apostolic Constitutions (compiled c.390, E) 7.392. (1)
- Disturbingly, all of the “fictional characters” wikipedia lists as having beards are wizards.
- Pogonology: the study of beards.
- Pogonophobia: self-explanatory and fair enough, I guess.
- Pogophile: I made that up.
- Lord, there’s even an art movement called beardism, started in the 1960s. Here’s the definition: “Beardism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected alternate history, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought married to the progression of industry (industriosophy). It tends to ruin once and for all other pseudo-psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life whist wearing a beard.”
Believe it or not, I’m bored of this post but…I don’t know, whatever. I was kidding when I said the results were fascinating. [Ed. Note: After revising my post, there’s no longer a sentence in the introduction paragraph that says “the results are fascinating.”]
