Manliness! Alaska! Trophies!

One of the manliest competitions ever, the World Beard and Moustache Championships, is being held in Alaska this year - tomorrow, in fact. I for one will be checking the Web site to see if Beard Team USA can pull off an epic win or two.

Now, you're probably asking yourself, "What's wrong with this chick? How is growing a bunch of facial hair manlier than rugby, American football, and lumberjacking?"

Easy. We have female rugby and football players, as well as lumberjills. But unless there's something totally out of whack with the chick's hormone levels, she's not going to have a beard, moustache, sideburns, et cetera to enter in the World Beard and Moustache Championships. Growing facial hair is, therefore, one of the manliest competitions ever - except, of course, for the He-man awesomeness that is Best Ranger.