# Half A Beard, Half A Beard, Half A Beard Onward! Newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891 "2016-04-23T12:42:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/1 "2016-04-23T12:42:14Z")
My Weird Earls Contribution. This must been seen. Even for a mugshot… > **[Half-bearded man poses for truly bizarre mugshot after cannabis arrest](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/half-bearded-man-poses-truly-7812941)** > > Kevin Gibson’s bushy, one-sided face-fur and dreadlocks meant he cut an unusual figure when he was taken to the police station [![](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7809736.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Kevin-Gibson-has-been-arrested-for-allegedly-possessing-marijuana-with-the-intent-to-sell.jpg) ](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7809736.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Kevin-Gibson-has-been-arrested-for-allegedly-possessing-marijuana-with-the-intent-to-sell.jpg) He’s got “The Look”. _Which Look_ is a matter of debate & opinion. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/2 "2016-04-23T12:47:40Z")
From the article: > [@](#): > > Miami-Dade County Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/3 "2016-04-23T19:14:52Z")
He must have watched the latest episode of The Last Man on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/4 "2016-04-23T21:08:34Z")
Which bathroom does this person use? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/5 "2016-04-23T21:51:50Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Which bathroom does this person use? What are you, from North Carolina or sumptin? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/6 "2016-04-23T23:43:45Z")
The first time I ever saw Steve Martin, he appeared on The Tonight Show (with Johnny Carson) wearing half a beard. As far as I could tell, it was real. That was his shtick. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/7 "2016-04-24T20:36:55Z")
I guess someone had blundered. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/8 "2016-04-25T00:51:04Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > The first time I ever saw Steve Martin, he appeared on The Tonight Show (with Johnny Carson) wearing half a beard. As far as I could tell, it was real. That was his shtick. I remember that. Something about how he couldn’t decide how he should look for his first TV appearance. So the beard side was for all his friends and the clean-shaven side was for mom and dad. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/9 "2016-04-25T01:33:21Z")
Their’s not to make reply, Their’s not to question why… Actually no, this time, it _is_ everybody’s to question why. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/10 "2016-04-25T02:03:25Z")
For some reason, this reminds me of how Peter Gabriel used to ‘do’ his hair. [http://www.nexthon.net/peter-gabriel-genesis-hair.html](http://www.nexthon.net/peter-gabriel-genesis-hair.html) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/11 "2016-04-25T20:13:18Z")
This is your face. This is your face on ‘Santa Claus’. Any questions…? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/12 "2016-04-26T13:04:54Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > For some reason, this reminds me of how Peter Gabriel used to ‘do’ his hair. > > [http://www.nexthon.net/peter-gabriel-genesis-hair.html](http://www.nexthon.net/peter-gabriel-genesis-hair.html) Reminds me more of Peter Hammill’s portrait for the cover of [The Future Now](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=peter+hammill+future+now&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWlOuIrqzMAhUsCsAKHYW9DqsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1096&bih=679#imgrc=_)! (1978) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/13 "2016-04-26T13:49:00Z")
Larry Niven liked the idea of asymmetric beards: > [@](#): > > asymmetric beard > The mark of a Human male Wunderlander aristocrat. The beard is allowed to grow on one side of the face, with the other side shaved clean. On the chin the bearded/shaved sides are reversed, so that below the half-beard is a clean-shaved half of a chin, and below the side of the face shaved clean is half of a two-tuft goatee. Dr. Richard Schultz-Mann wore a carefully maintained asymmetric beard, and in 2641 Sigumund Ausfaller wore one as part of a disguise. > > Reference: “Neutron Star”, “A Relic of the Empire”, “Flatlander” [http://news.larryniven.net/concordance/main.asp?alpha=A](http://news.larryniven.net/concordance/main.asp?alpha=A) Maybe this guy is a fanboy. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/14 "2016-04-26T15:14:42Z")
And Wunderlanders get very upset if you make fun of their look. This guy… ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/15 "2016-05-16T02:04:41Z")
Maybe he was arrested in the middle of cutting off his beard. Maybe he was trying to change his appearance after committing a crime. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/16 "2016-05-16T19:28:15Z")
Reminds me of the time I was at a concert in San Francisco (I don’t remember. Toiling Midgets or somebody) and this guy asked me to put half a face of makeup on him. It looked okay; then again, it was the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-beard-half-a-beard-half-a-beard-onward-newslink/752891/17 "2016-05-16T20:10:41Z")
Amusingly apt somehow that the OP linked to an article in the Mirror.