One of my favorite Shel Silverstein poems is “Captain Blackbeard Did What?” My seasonal beard became fodder for the trashcan this past weekend, as spring sprung itself in Baltimore (and of course it’s cold now). Yesterday, I wondered aloud what my pirate name would be: Redbeard? Greybeard? Then I stumbled on it:
WINTERBEARD.
I was very pleased with myself.
Of course, I have phantom beard now, and I’m not used to not soaking up coffee into something attached to my face. Not to mention what an empty experience having a Guinness was last night.
[Free prize for whoever gets the title reference without looking it up!]
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