Good grief!  Has it really been ten days since I checked up on my thread?  Thank you for all the replies, gentlemen!

Yeah, Mark, that was only a couple of months after I'd decided to stop trimming the stache altogether (though I was still getting the beard trimmed) and was also the point where it finally got big enough to stay out of my mouth, usually, at least when it wanted to

Thank you, dantes, I quite enjoy wearing the tie, or a braid, too, and I'm glad to hear you think it looks good!  Now that you mention it, I have indeed tried the two-pronged braid a bit lower, as shown here.  To me it looks like I've a pair of jodhpurs jangling from my jowls but my wife liked it.

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I'm happy to see that the Sheriff was resourceful enough to cross the pond successfully short one thruster.  I was worried there for a bit!  Thank you, Triibeard, for that compliment.  You've been one of my inspirations since the day I arrived here, as you well know.

Hey, docsy, thanks for stopping by, and thank you for your kind words!  My poor lip weasel sort of gets lots in the beard these days but back then it really stood out.

Kevin and Dominik, sorry to frighten you, my friends smiley: devil

Hmm, that approach sounds particularly wise to me, Larry   Now, you didn't really think I'd trimmed, did you?

That's good to hear, Dennis, since it shows they were allowed to re-assess things.  I hope that other contests adopt that same method.  It just seems to make more sense, as TwoBear, suggested.  The tie-breakers always seem to be less objective.

Well, Dirk, my long-bearded friend, you should know!  I think we've both walked in the same giants' footsteps.

Bohemian, huh.  That's a first, ahh.  I'll take it!  Thanks for stopping by.  I'm looking forward to reading your thread in a couple of years and seeing you with a long, bushy firefall dangling from your chin

Thank you, Dave, that really means a lot.  Now, if you think that pic shows I was meant to be bearded you should look back at the ones where I'm shaven

Mike, if I've been an inspiration for that great beard of yours then I claim success!  Thank you!

It's funny you say that, VC.  My wife and I were in the same store a week later and the same clerk was there.  She said something like, "I think we discussed you beard last weekend".  My wife immediately said, "Ah, you're the one who called it luscious.  You can look all you want, but no touching."  

Yeah, Don and TwoBear, that's a lot of hair ago, isn't it.  I'd never have thought I'd let it get this long but, you know what, I want MORE!

Hey, metallic1, great to see you again!  That beast you're sporting it looking huge!  Thank you, sir!

Cheers!
Tom


Some helpful links:
Library Central of Beard Growing


Taming the Wild Mustache
Tips for eating and drinking with a big mustache

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
A jerk with a beard is just a bearded jerk, but a bearded gentleman is awesomeness personified. ~ Triibeard
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