World Beard and Mustache Championships
Every two years, the owners of the world’s most elaborate facial hair come together for the World Beard and Moustache Championships. This year the championships were held in the United States for the second time in their history, as the City of Anchorage, Alaska played host to the world’s bearded and mustached elite. The previous championships were held in:
1990 Hofen/Enz, Germany
1995 Pforzheim, Germany
1997 Trondheim, Norway
1999 Ystad, Sweden
2001 Schombrrg, Germany
2003 Carson City, NV
2005 Berlin, Germany
2007 Brighton, Great Britain
Here are the categories. All three of these also have a “Free Style” category where anything can happen.

Mustache category.

Partial beard category.

Full beard category.
I watched the beard and moustache parade in downtown Anchorage and here is what I saw.

Championship in Alaska

Wyatt Erp

The Germans have landed!

Your tickling me nowhere with that!

Beard Team Canada eh.

Dapper Dan

Ricolaaaaaaaaaa.

Paul Bunyan, Leprechaun, and Hare Krishna

Some Scoutmaster from Europe.

Dickens I presume.

I know this guy from somewhere.

So this is how Belgium beer began.

Alaskan whaler style.

Moses with ZZ Top.

More Germans – go figure. What planet did that guy on the right come from?

Australians drunk already trying to get their flag going the right way in the northern hemisphere.

General Lee.

More Germans.

Johnny Depp and the Music Man. That’s not a python around his neck, it’s a goddam beard.

Getting back with my Mardi Gras home boys.

Your basic biker beards.

Russian women.

I have no caption for this guy.