[Magdalen] The Theology of Clerical Beards

[Jay Weigel]

My friend Jazmyne is married to a card-carrying NA who she claims is a
sasquatch. He's a member of one of the northern California tribes.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 1/22/16 10:57 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> Some Native Americans have really skimpy beards, Sibyl....particularly
>> those in the Pacific Northwest!
>>
>
> My husband had just enough NA genes (in the right place on one or both
> chromosomes) that the most he could do was mustache and skimpy goatee. He
> was a "Lavender Cowboy", with only two hairs on his chest (I gather from
> the looks of the covers of current Romance paperbacks that that is the most
> modern trope for "sexy" along with "sculpted" muscles (pretty much
> necessarily from a gym with machines, but a lot of these guys, from the
> text, are supposed to be "natural" men like Tarzan), and sparse hairs on
> his legs.  Contrariwise, I knew a "legal" NA, a "Card-Carrying Quapaw" who
> got those particular genes from the European part of his ancestors, (and
> this was at the hippie time when a lot of young men grew as much hair as
> they possibly could), who, in a swimsuit, looked like a walking black
> haystack with a pair of round lenses near the top.
>
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
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