Picture this face
Steve Hayes
puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow forehead, almost
exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his lower lip.
Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
--
Steve Hayes
E-mail: haye...@hotmail.com
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Mickwick
>My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and has been
>puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>
>He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow forehead, almost
>exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his lower lip.
>
>Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
By invading Poland?
--
Mickwick
Frances Kemmish
Invading Poland moves the moustache to the lower lip? That's a neat trick.
Robbie
"Steve Hayes" <haye...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4197757e...@news.saix.net...
> My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and has been
> puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>
> He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow forehead,
almost
> exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his lower lip.
>
> Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
>
that your wife wasn't reading the book upside down?
Robbie
Matti Lamprhey
> My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and has
> been puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>
> He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow
> forehead, almost exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his
> lower lip.
>
> Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
Oů sont les glues d'antan?
Matti
John Dean
> My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and has
> been puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>
> He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow
> forehead, almost exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his
> lower lip.
>
> Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
If someone attacked you with a machete.
--
John Dean
Oxford
JimC
> My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and has been
> puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>
> He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow forehead, almost
> exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his lower lip.
>
> Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
Why couldn't the axis of a chin beard be vertical, i.e., at a right
angle to the line of his eyebrows? It would also reenforce the
narrowness of his face.
Don Tuite
wrote:
>My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and has been
>puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>
>He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow forehead, almost
>exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his lower lip.
>
>Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
Picasso has a lot to answer for.
Don
JC Dill
wrote:
>My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and has been
>puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>
>He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow forehead, almost
>exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on his lower lip.
>
>Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
It appears that the writer couldn't decide if the character had a
goatee or a mustache, and ended up with parts of both descriptions
mixed together.
jc
Ray Heindl
>
> "Steve Hayes" <haye...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4197757e...@news.saix.net...
>
>> My wife has been reading "The secret sanction" by Brian Haig, and
>> has been puzzling over the appearance of one of the characters.
>>
>> He had dark eyebrows, forming a single line across his narrow
>> forehead, almost exactly perpendicular to the thick moustache on
>> his lower lip.
>>
>> Any ideas on how anyone would get a face like that?
By having a lip transplant? According to various dictionaries, a
moustache is only on the *upper* lip.
> Why couldn't the axis of a chin beard be vertical, i.e., at a
> right angle to the line of his eyebrows? It would also reenforce
> the narrowness of his face.
But could such a beard be "thick"? It would have to be trimmed to be
narrow enough to have a vertical axis, which would reduce its
thickness.
I wonder if the writer meant 'parallel' rather than 'perpendicular',
but chose the latter because he couldn't remember where the double-L
goes in 'parallel'.
--
Ray Heindl
(remove the Xs to reply to: xvortr...@yaxhoo.com)
Alan Hope
Also: at right angles to the eyebrow.
See, I thought "perpendicular" was the mistake, and overlooked "lower
lip" entirely.
You must have done the opposite. Funny how the world turns. Is this a
perceptual Coriolis effect?
--
AH
Frances Kemmish
I didn't miss the perpendicular bit; I envisaged a Hitler-style
moustache, more vertical than horizontal, but located lower.
Like the vertical bit of this attempt at a goatee:
http://www.bradthegame.com/jones/goatee.jpg
Actually, I do have a problem wioth "perpendicular" used to mean "at
right angles to". I always picture something like a church spire.
Fran
Dylan Nicholson
news:2vq27iF...@uni-berlin.de...
>
> I didn't miss the perpendicular bit; I envisaged a Hitler-style
> moustache, more vertical than horizontal, but located lower.
>
> Like the vertical bit of this attempt at a goatee:
>
Indeed, my only issue with the sentence was the word "moustache".
Had he used "goatee" it would've made perfect sense.
Alan Hope
>But could such a beard be "thick"? It would have to be trimmed to be
>narrow enough to have a vertical axis, which would reduce its
>thickness.
See: Frank Zappa. Thicker than the hair on many men's heads.
--
AH
Paul Wolff
<fkem...@optonline.net> writes
suppose if we're into styles of church architecture, they could be
gothic with pointed arches, or romanesque, rounded on columns ... it's a
peculiarity of my family that our eyebrows tend to prawns' legs as they
(or indeed we) age.
--
Paul
In bocca al Lupo!
don groves
fkem...@optonline.net exposited:
Which is perpendicular to the ground. Usually.
--
dg (domain=ccwebster)
Frances Kemmish
> In article <2vq27iF...@uni-berlin.de>, Frances Kemmish at
> fkem...@optonline.net exposited:
>
>>
>>Actually, I do have a problem wioth "perpendicular" used to mean "at
>>right angles to". I always picture something like a church spire.
>
>
> Which is perpendicular to the ground. Usually.
Well, mostly. Here's a picture of a church in the town where I was born:
http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/churches/images/derby/chesterfield.jpg
JimC
Girls and their unicorn calendars. What can they possibly be thinking?
Peter Moylan
>Actually, I do have a problem wioth "perpendicular" used to mean "at
>right angles to". I always picture something like a church spire.
My third grade teacher had the same problem. She was absolutely
convinced that "perpendicular" meant "vertical". Anyone foolish
enough to suggest the "at right angles" definition got a rap on the
knuckles with the edge of a ruler. And anyone who tried to
produce a dictionary would probably be expelled for contempt.
She had a moustache, too, now that I think of it; but I couldn't
tell you whether she had one on the lower (vertical) lip, because nuns
keep that part well covered.
--
Peter Moylan peter at ee dot newcastle dot edu dot au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software)
don groves
As Artie Johnson used to say on "Laugh-In", verrry interesthing.
--
dg (domain=ccwebster)
Richard Maurer
Actually, I do have a problem wioth "perpendicular" used to mean "at
right angles to". I always picture something like a church spire.
don groves wrote:
Which is perpendicular to the ground. Usually.
Frances Kemmish wrote:
Well, mostly. Here's a picture of a church
in the town where I was born:
www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/churches/images/derby/chesterfield.jpg
Due to someone's twisted sense of humor
at the design stage, or was it later?
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Richard Maurer To reply, remove half
Sunnyvale, California of a homonym of a synonym for also.
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Beer Bat
>
> It appears that the writer couldn't decide if the character had a
> goatee or a mustache, and ended up with parts of both descriptions
> mixed together.
You could have a Hitler mustache, and a goatee ...
nobody wears a Hitler mustache anymore tho ... it seems
to have died with him.
Before WWII it seemed to be very popular.
Nobody seems to want to name their sons "Adolf" anymore either.
Matti Lamprhey
> Frances Kemmish wrote:
> [...] Here's a picture of a church in the town where I was born:
>
> www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/churches/images/derby/chesterfield.jpg
>
> Due to someone's twisted sense of humor at the design stage,
> or was it later?
"The use by its 14thC builders of too much green wood is said to be the
explanation for the spire's extraordinary crookedness. Locals like to
suggest that it bent itself to take a peek at the highly unusual sight
of a virgin being married in the church below. Should it happen again,
they say, it will straighten itself back up in astonishment. Until then
it remains the symbol of this Derbyshire county town."
-- a footnote in Simon Winchester's _The Meaning of Everything_,
which could hardly be more on-topic here in AUE.
Matti
unglued
> JC Dill <jcdi...@sonic.net> wrote in message news:<f4gfp0hr3chg39cgh...@4ax.com>...
> >
> > It appears that the writer couldn't decide if the character had a
> > goatee or a mustache, and ended up with parts of both descriptions
> > mixed together.
>
> You could have a Hitler mustache, and a goatee ...
> nobody wears a Hitler mustache anymore tho ... it seems
> to have died with him.
Mugabe has one. Strangely enough noone seemed to think it ominous
before he was elected president of Zimbabwe, people never learn.
Mickwick
>Invading Poland moves the moustache to the lower lip? That's a neat trick.
Ah! Yes. My bad. Not <(]|:o=( ] but <(]|:o (=].
In that case, I agree with Matti.
--
Mickwick
Django Cat
And can I be the only man on Earth ever to have grown a moustache,
decided to shave it off, started at both ends leaving the middle and
thought 'now shall I just go to work like that today'? Probably not.
DC. Ein reich, ein bogbrush.
Paul Wolff
<nos...@please.com> writes
>
>And can I be the only man on Earth ever to have grown a moustache,
>decided to shave it off, started at both ends leaving the middle and
>thought 'now shall I just go to work like that today'? Probably not.
>
>DC. Ein reich, ein bogbrush.
I grew a full set on holiday once, and being undecided after my return,
shaved off the right hand side in order to compare the views. The girls
in whose flat I was conducting the experiment shrieked, and I suddenly
realised I had little further choice in the matter.
unglued
Were they shreiks of euphoria or dysphoria ?
Paul Wolff
<drago...@spray.se> writes
The latter, alas. There was a whole lotta shakin' goin' on. But they
were lovely girls; reader, I married one, when my moustache had regrown,
and she swears she checked it was all there, as we stood before the
altar, before saying "I do".