Tom E wrote:

Second, I posted that t-shirt photo in a couple of Facebook beard groups where I participate on occasion.  I got several wonderful comments and loads of encouragement but what flabbergasted me was that I got comments from the likes of long-beard gods like Aarne Bielefelt, Garey Faulkner, Orin Leavitt, and Andrew Shuler!  image  Guys, getting comments from them made me feel as giddy as a teenage girl getting a personal email from Justin Bieber!  If you look then up you'll see that their beards dwarf mine but, wow, they took the time to comment.  I'm still on a fuzzy cloud 9 image  Needless to say, there's no trimming in my future now!
 

That is seriously awesome Tom!  But at this point it is of course well deserved.  You've grown such an iconic beard.  You're "Tom E" !!  haha, seriously that recent morning picture is wonderful.  The best thing about yours compared with all the other superstar beards out there is we don't get the behind-the-scenes, ungroomed and done up sorts of shots that we get with you.
 
Wasn't Aarne a member on JBB at one point as well?  

Oh and just because I don't have time to click through 134 pages of your thread, does your moustache touch behind your head yet??