Beard Liberation Front
25th January
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Poll finds most think Robert Burns was a bearded radical
The National
The Beard Liberation Front has said that with Burns Night on Saturday a poll has found that 42% believe Burns really had a beard contrary to his Establishment ‘clean-shaven’ image.
The poll carried out by the BLF in the week before Burns Night found 42.86% of respondents backed Burns as a beard wearer with just 14.29% agreeing that he was a ‘clean shaven Establishment Man’. The remainder said they planned to consider the matter over a meal of haggis, neaps and tatties and a dram or two of malt whisky.
The campaigners say that the likelihood was that the clean shaven image of Rabbie Burns was a construction over many years of pogonophobes, or beard haters. There is a strong possibility that the poet had facial hair for much of the time and this may have influenced his poetry.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, let’s face it. Burns had a beard
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