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Fascinating Jim. This is indeed a thread that makes one think. Yes, I suppose you do "shave your throat", just as you can slit it. You don't "slit your neck", do you? And yet one wears a tie around one's neck, not around the neck and throat. And Audrey Hepburn had a long "neck", referring, I always assumed, to the whole bit between the shoulders and head. Giraffes have long "necks" too. And if the throat is the front part of the neck region, what the heck's the "back of the neck"?
Before people get out their "infallible" dictionaries, let's get back on topic. Or sort of. I've seen billions of men who are thin on top and wear beards. Many millions of balding men seem to try to distract attention from their see-through head-hair by cultivating extra growth on the chin. And of those millions, hundreds of thousands actually shave the poor-quality remains of pate-hair straight off, leaving a shining billiard-ball bonce. It's almost a cliché now. "Ah - shaved head and intellectual goatee. Baldy bastard." Does it REALLY fool anybody? By the way, you will have guessed.... there are no secrets, and I am NOT ashamed, nor do I have in any way a "complex" (heaven forbid)... but... I... am... that... baldy bastard.
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No, but apparently John Travolta does!!
Ray beat me to this one!!
Seriously, I do NOT have a beard.
The colloquial term, "beard," originated as gay slang, defining the woman a gay man is seen with out in public, so as to mask his true identity. ("beard" = cover)
Examples abound.....
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Ah! Cheers. Learning all the time!
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Hello Jim (and all who care), thanks for the question - No, I'm not a "total" baldy, at least I don't see it that way when I'm shaving (oh the irony) in front of the mirror. But I'm the only one who thinks I've still got quite a lot of comb-overrable (sp?) hair on my head. My wife says I'm a bald git (although she does seem to stress the noun rather than the adjective) but what does SHE know?
I have been in bars recently (oh yes, bars - I go to them... I am not strong) and have come up against those "multiple mirror" corner pew jobbies (perhaps a misleading choice of words in context) and have actually seen the back of my head, and a bit of the top of it. I am indeed rather bald. But this thread is not about baldness nor me myself I.
Do you have a beard?
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Oh, missed Jeannum's photo. Yes, that's OK, sort of in an "Oliver Reed angry-with-the-world" way. It suits you, J (if it be you). But you've got hair on your head too, so nothing to distract from - in that sense at least.
I shall ponder on this. Thanks for the input meanwhile.
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Profile view, which shows off my generous nasal projecture.
"You could inhale Peru with that nose." -- Joan Rivers
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I find a beard easy to keep- I run clippers over my face 2 or 3 times a week, and keep the mustache & jaw-line neat (keep it short, but full- no prospector lookin' stuff). Shampoo/Condition it and comb it like the hair on your head.
Unless you eat like a barbarian, you are unlikely to trap food. If you do eat like a barbarian, excuse yourself and clean yourself up.
I don't find it hot or scratchy, and you really can stroke it thoughtfully for effect.
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(plus I couldn't be arsed!!)
Seriously, though, she'd be bummed if I shaved it off. Come to think of it, I did shave it off a couple summers ago, and I'd gotten so used to having it that without it I looked like an overgrown 8-year old. Never again. 
