The Anatomy of the Common Beard (Revised Edition)

After the com­ments and feed­back left on my pre­vi­ous post about the bits and pieces that make up one’s beard, I now present the revised edi­tion of The Anatomy of the Com­mon Beard.

beard

And here’s the KEY:

PHILTRUMLINGS: The hair of the philtrum.

SIDEBURNLINGS: The hair of the sideburn.

CHEEKFUZZLINGS: The fuzzy hair of the cheek.

GINGERLINGS: The inex­plic­a­ble gin­ger hair on blonde or brunette beard.

BERMUDATRIANGLINGS: The place where hair refuses to grow at all despite the clear geo­graph­i­cal require­ment of hair growth.

UNDERLINGS: Neck hairs.

TRANSCHESTLINGS:  The hairs that sit just under the Adam’s apple and glare envi­ously past the collarbone.

Thanks to Phill, Ken, #2 and House­mate Numero Uno for their input.

18. June 2009



7 Comments

chris newton

I’ve often referred to the gin­ger­ling as the marine biol­o­gist, although this is con­fined to blonde with gin­ger beard (two tone).

I won­der if there can’t be allowance for pro­vi­sional side­burns; some (includ­ing myself) will grow their side hair long in front of the ear, in a sim­u­la­tion of side­burns. It’s hard to explain to barbers.

#2

This was an excel­lent picture.

Stef

I main­tain that you guys are weird.

Housemate Numero Uno!

It’s a mas­ter­piece! I will colour it in…

esther

i’ve oft won­dered why there are so many sneeky fanta pants in the world, the only give­away their beards. are they Just for Men-ing their head hair to throw girls off the trail? so that we might acci­den­tally mate with blueys — deceit their only hope to con­tinue the ranga race??

no. it’s just gin­ger­lings. phew.

esther

*sneaky

hackpacker

Oh, the addi­tion of the gin­ger­ling is good. These do turn into greylings though as I can attest…