Whiskerino 2007 Starts Today

Today is the first day of Whiskerino, the bi-annual beard growing contest. You must begin by being clean-shaven and trimming/sculpting is "highly frowned upon" during the growing season. The contest ends on February 29th, 2008. Here's the Flickr group for the 2005 contest. I'd probably play along, but I haven't been clean-shaven in about 10 years and I don't wanna start. Our man Aaron should do it though, as he puts it, his beard is "luscious".