What sort of stuff could be found in a beard?

Question

*Inspired by The Bearded One and NRA4EVR.

Answer 1

your dad

Answer 2

Pieces of breakfast, perhaps saved for a later snack. A pen maybe. A guitar pick. A bird's nest. A candle. Some quarters. An antfarm perhaps. The possibilities are endless.

Answer 3

I lost my keys in my beard once. Very Frustrating. I also forgot that I put my TV remote there. Sometimes I just think beards aren't worth it!

Answer 4

There was an old man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared.
Four larks and a hen,
Two cockroaches and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard."

Sorry, I don't recall the author of this limerick...

Answer 5

"Mr Twit was one of these very hairy-faced men. The whole of his face except for his forehead, his eyes and nose, was covered with thick hair. The stuff even sprouted in revolting tufts out of his nostrils and ear-holes.

Mr Twit felt that this hairiness made him look terrifically wise and grand. But in truth he was neither of these things. Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

The hair on Mr Twit’s face didn’t grow smooth and matted as it does on most hairy-faced men. It grew in spikes that stuck out straight like the bristles of a nailbrush.

And how often did Mr Twit wash this bristly nailbrushy face of his?

The answer is NEVER, not even on Sundays.

He hadn’t washed it for years.


Dirty Beards

As you know, an ordinary unhairy face like yours or mine simply gets a bit smudgy if it is not washed often enough, and there’s nothing so awful about that.

But a hairy face is a very different matter. Things cling to hairs, especially food. Things like gravy go right in among the hairs and stay there. You and I can wipe our smooth faces with a flannel and we quickly look more or less all right again, but the hairy man cannot do that.

We can also, if we are careful, eat our meals without spreading food all over our faces. But not so the hairy man. Watch carefully next time you see a hairy man eating his lunch and you will notice that even if he opens his mouth very wide, it is impossible for him to get a spoonful of beef-stew or ice-cream and chocolate sauce into it without leaving some of it on the hairs.

Mr Twit didn’t even bother to open his mouth wide when he ate. As a result (and because he never washed) there were always hundreds of bits of old breakfasts and lunches and suppers sticking to the hairs around his face. They weren’t big bits, mind you, because he used to wipe those off with the back of his hand or on his sleeve while he was eating. But if you looked closely (not that you’d ever want to) you would see tiny little specks of dried-up scrambled eggs stuck to the hairs, and spinach and tomato ketchup and fish fingers and minced chicken livers and all the other disgusting things Mr Twit liked to eat.

If you looked closer still (hold your noses ladies and gentlemen), if you peered deep into the moustachy bristles sticking over his upper lip, you would probably see much larger objects that had escaped the wipe of his hand, things that had been there for months and months, like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a mouldy old cornflake or even the slimy tail of a tinned sardine.

Because of all this, Mr Twit never went really hungry. By sticking out his tongue and curling it sideways to explore the hairy jungle around his mouth, he was always able to find a tasty morsel here and there to nibble on.

What I am trying to tell you is that Mr Twit was a foul and smelly old man.

He was also an extremely horrid old man, as you will find out in a moment."

Answer 6

There's an old nursey style ryhme of a man whose beard was so long birds nested in it. It comes from a Scottish tale I believe. So my answer isnesting birds.

Answer 7

There once was a man with a very long beard,
Who said, "It is just as I've feared!"
"Four larks and a wren,
Two owls and a hen,
Have all made their nests in my beard!"

Answer 8

You'd probably be appalled at some of the stuff I find in my husband's beard. Cat kibbles for example....

Answer 9

just about anything can be found in a beard. my husbands beard has lots of fun in it

Answer 10

Hair

Answer 11

Hair