notbob wrote:
> On 2015-10-08, Embudo > wrote:
>
>> Soon to return - the van dyke...
>
> Perhaps not. Turns out the beard fell out of fashion in the early
> 20th century due to the discovery that tuberculosis was passed by
> coughing and that the infectuous sputum might rest on one's own
> whiskers. We are now seeing multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis
> (MDR-TB), so the beard may go the way of the slide rule, once more.
>
> I've worn a van dyke for years, but only cuz my fuller beard looks
> terrible. I let it grow out a bit in Winter to keep my face warm.
>
> nb

I'm going to let mine grow and grow until Xmas, then I'm going to shave
it all off.