Foo - The Great 2009 Foo Beard Contest

No prize, except for props.

Here's mine in full winter mode

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/001-1.jpg

That's bigger than mine is right now. Here's a recent picture after a trim:
http://www.jspublications.net/images/bikes/ridephotos/08-12-27/Joel.jpg

You've both got me beat. I just started letting things grow out past a #2 clipper a couple weeks ago when the cold weather set in.

I vote for x's. He has a huge beard..

the normal winter beard

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6343/thistoxj6.jpg

which will most likely lead to a repeat of this 'stache.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1447/thatvi3.jpg

Here's last years

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o260/TomStormcrowe/Sunburn005.jpg

That is impressive. I'm working on the mustache this year. Most years I hate it because it gets in the way, but this year, I'm ignoring that hatred...

put your shirt back on, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Stormcrowe.

Aw, botto, just trying to show off the definition.

sure you were. :innocent:

Can't grow a beard... not allowed per Uniform Regs. But once I retire....

Ha! I lose to you all. :popcorn

EDIT: See below

How the heck do you guys manage to get past the scratchy/itchy phase early on? Every time I have decided to try and grow a beard I end up sprinting to the bathroom to shave after nearly going nuts from the discomfort.

put your shirt back on, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Stormcrowe.

That has to be on the early list for post of the year

jim

how the heck do you guys manage to get past the scratchy/itchy phase early on? Every time i have decided to try and grow a beard i end up sprinting to the bathroom to shave after nearly going nuts from the discomfort.

htfu

How the heck do you guys manage to get past the scratchy/itchy phase early on? Every time I have decided to try and grow a beard I end up sprinting to the bathroom to shave after nearly going nuts from the discomfort.

I don't remember. Last time I was clean shaven was in '94. It lasted exactly one day. That was the day I got married.

How the heck do you guys manage to get past the scratchy/itchy phase early on? Every time I have decided to try and grow a beard I end up sprinting to the bathroom to shave after nearly going nuts from the discomfort.

I went on a week-long bender after losing my job. When I came to, I had a beard. Apparently I missed the scratchy/itchy phase.

how the heck do you guys manage to get past the scratchy/itchy phase early on? Every time i have decided to try and grow a beard i end up sprinting to the bathroom to shave after nearly going nuts from the discomfort.htfuBasically, yes. There's a point at which it's just irritating as all get out, but if you're lazy enough, you can get by it.

I don't have a picture of mine on me, and the cable for my camera is at home. If this thread is still floating around once I get home, I'll see if I can't capture the essence.

the normal winter beard

which will most likely lead to a repeat of this 'stache.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1447/thatvi3.jpg

I hope you have a monocle and a top hat to go along with that.

How the heck do you guys manage to get past the scratchy/itchy phase early on? Every time I have decided to try and grow a beard I end up sprinting to the bathroom to shave after nearly going nuts from the discomfort.

I'm the same....I am on week two and am still in the hair shirt Thomas Beckett phase....a few days ago I was getting acute cranial pain from the helmet rubbing against short hairs....I think it's just worse for us swarthy coarse haired types.


I think I used to look good with a full beard, but now, not so much. Today after two weeks I chopped down to a goatee and I think it's better. We shall see......I am shooting for a monty wooley

http://i1.sell.com/12/42/805332/47/163/3078523-l.jpg

I'll have to be a judge...

I hope you have a monocle and a top hat to go along with that.

That or a Doc Holliday Gamblers suit.

This is as good as it gets... before I have to attack the friskers.

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/meandbijoux.jpg

This is as good as it gets... before I have to attack the friskers.Which one is you, left or right? :P

No way I could win but I shall compete for fun. Here's one from an old promotional photo attempt:

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn53/RubenX_Longwood/Other/IMG_0235.jpg

Basically, yes. There's a point at which it's just irritating as all get out, but if you're lazy enough, you can get by it.

I don't have a picture of mine on me, and the cable for my camera is at home. If this thread is still floating around once I get home, I'll see if I can't capture the essence.

Hmmm. According to my wife it's not possible for me to be any more lazy than I am now. I guess that I am out of luck with the beard.

This thread reminds me of high school where Harold Blaz could grow a full beard in 3 days when he was in the 10th grade (voted "most likely to go to jail" after graduation). It takes me about 3 days to grow a five o' clock shadow.

here's me with "the pointy"

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff20/fearfeasog/pointy.jpg

i have these mutant chops right now, not sure what i'm doing...

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1447/thatvi3.jpg

there's a killer 'stache, sir! huzzah!

Calling what's on my face a 'beard' is like characterizing my participation in USA Cycling events as 'racing'.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/patentcad/pcadbeard.jpg

X has the best beard I have seen in a long time. Gotta pic of it on my phone last night... :D

I'd do it, but I can never get past the itchies. Besides, I do not have a consistent beard growth anyways.

Are clam beards allowed in this contest?

Havent shaved since 2nd week of October; I'm goin for all winter without shaving or trimming (except for the stache)

let me get my camera- I wanna play in this thread, too!
:-P

Are clam beards allowed in this contest?


let me get my camera- I wanna play in this thread, too!
:-P

:twitchy:

:twitchy:

word:twitchy:

let me get my camera- I wanna play in this thread, too!
:-P

Better get a Sharpie while you're up.

let me get my camera- I wanna play in this thread, too!
:-P

HIGH FIVE, SISTAH!! *slap!* :lol:

Wow, this thread has been radically changed. For the better or the worse I can't (won't :P) say, but it's certainly... different.

this thread needs a little color

last year
http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp103/chriscraft27/winter.jpg

this year
http://i402.photobucket.com/albums/pp103/chriscraft27/thisyear.jpg

I've worn a beard of some sort for the last 20 years. I used to let it grow from October to April, but now there is too much grey in there for me.

hmm...I'll have to enter this contest. See ya'll in about 4 months. :D
Ernest

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/Gordo_Ruckus/Picture925.jpg

Beards come in handy in the blizzards of the North West
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1958/103/56/77803153/n77803153_30717471_6301.jpg

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/4485/bearddw2.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bearddw2.jpg)
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/bearddw2.jpg/1/w605.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img255/bearddw2.jpg/1/)

Today:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a284/Taerom/2008%20Winter/P1054382.jpg

Mere moments ago in the library (I always forget that I have a webcam)...

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f211/sfrazi2/Snapshot_20090105_1.jpg

let me get my camera- I wanna play in this thread, too!
:-P
3 hours, and no photos?

You tease.

Today:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a284/Taerom/2008%20Winter/P1054382.jpg

you remind me of a tarantula.

hmm...I'll have to enter this contest. See ya'll in about 4 months. :D
Ernest

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/Gordo_Ruckus/Picture925.jpg

:lol:

Of course I wander in here the day I shave and trim. Here's what I got. Not bad for an asian man:

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o333/huytheskigod/misc/Photo7.jpg