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In pictures: Beard and Moustache contest!!

 
 
Post: # 472,382
View Profile Monger
 
Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 11:41 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522469_winners_afp300body.jpg

Karl Heinz Hille (centre) won Overall Grand Champion, but it was a close shave

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522413_group_afp300body.jpg

Hirsute contestants were fielded from 10 countries

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522421_schradi_afp300body.jpg

Entrants competed in categories ranging from natural and freestyle...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522411_fumanchu_afp245body.jpg

... to Fu Manchu and Dali

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522419_posing_afp245body.jpg

There are strict competition rules defining types of beard and moustache

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522417_knapp_afp300body.jpg

Germans have traditionally dominated the competition


From BBC News

What is wrong with these people?? Shocked Laughing
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 12:11 pm
They just like growing beards. Its less harmful than the American obsession with firearms.
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Post: # 472,519
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 02:45 pm
I am enchanted. Delightful pictures. Thank you, Monger.
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Post: # 472,521
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 02:47 pm
What fun! You do realize, Monger, that these guys can wear their beards in a 'normal' fashion until show-time.....? I wonder if they do.
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Post: # 472,522
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 02:47 pm
LOL! I like beards - but those have gone the way of body-builders vs people who like to be fit and healthy.

The fella in the last picture looks so warm and funny, though, that I don't mind his silly beard!

What I REALLY hate is big side-boards.
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Post: # 472,526
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 02:51 pm
Humans' relationship with our hair is really funny.

I mean - what sort of weird animal is neither properly furry, nor properly furless?

And what about WHERE our fur is! How weird is that??? And - why do mins get furrier and furrier as they get older - 'cept for their heads, often, which is where they want the fur? And what IS with hairy ears? Some of the balding guys at work say they could cope with the baldness, if only all the hair didn't sneak into their ears....
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 02:58 pm
Your one to talk with those long floppy hairy ones.
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Post: # 472,549
View Profile dlowan
 
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 03:06 pm
At least I have fur all over!
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 04:53 pm
not on the end of your nose you dont
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 04:55 pm
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not on the end of your nose you dont


I HAVE seen some people...................... Laughing
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 05:05 pm
Am I the only one on this site that has any powers of observation?
What the hell is wrong with you people? What am I talking about, you might ask. Take a close look at the attached photo...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39522000/jpg/_39522413_group_afp300body.jpg


Now do you understand? The guy in the front row, middle. Look familiar?

It's Monger! In disguise. He'll do anything to bring a story to A2K.

I say we all give him a rousing round of applause for his efforts.


p.s. I think the guy in the sunglasses, standing in front of Santa Claus, is Dys. Holy crap! I've never seen him with his hat off.
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 05:29 pm
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I HAVE seen some people......................


I defer to your hirsute experiences Smile

And you can keep 'em Laughing
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 10:05 pm
This groupust cant let Sgt Pepper go. Its the Brits that have an annual mouse show. Thats why we Americans broke from the mother country, theyre all half nuts
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Reply Sun 7 Dec, 2003 10:05 pm
A resurgence of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Post: # 473,169
View Profile dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 8 Dec, 2003 12:03 am
I have a wee wig for the end of my nose....
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Reply Mon 8 Dec, 2003 01:22 pm
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Thats why we Americans broke from the mother country, theyre all half nuts


I say, steady on old boy. At least get the statistics right. We are not all "half nuts". A significant minority are as sane as you or I. The fact that a small majority are completely barking does not make us, overall, half nuts. More like 2/3.

Rabbit. Remember to remove wee wig before any Xmas nose rubbing. We don't want any (static) discharges.
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Post: # 477,280
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Reply Wed 10 Dec, 2003 05:44 pm
I used to have a giant mustache. I had it curled on the ends. I knew it looked ridiculous and I was always twirling it in my fingers or chewing on it. It lasted 14 months before I shaved it off. Ah! Freedom!
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