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Twistendo

Posted: Apr 7 2009, 03:23 PM

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http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/06/Bea...61511239049518/

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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 6 (UPI) -- Two California men said they raised $3,000 for a charity that builds wells in Africa by simply growing out their beards and soliciting donations.

Friends Jon Sontag and Greg Miller of San Jose, Calif., said they hatched their beard-growing scheme last fall at a bachelor party and decided to chronicle their whiskers on the Internet, the San Jose Mercury News reported Monday.

The men said they added a PayPal link to the Web site so users could donate to Water Wells for Africa. They said word spread about their charitable facial hair and they gave a check for $3,000 to the charity Sunday, 31 weeks after they started growing their beards.

"I look like a pirate," Sontag told the Mercury News before he and Miller shaved their faces for the first time in months. "He looks like Santa."

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Sorario	Posted: Apr 7 2009, 04:11 PM
COULD THIS BE...MY...DISTINCT FLARE?! Group: Members Posts: 401 Member No.: 151 Joined: 26-November 03 Status: (0d)	Uh, weird...But cool I guess if it's going to charity. Incidentally, beards are awesome. --------------------

Tony Trombone

Posted: Apr 7 2009, 04:20 PM

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QUOTE (Sorario @ Apr 7 2009, 04:11 PM)

Uh, weird...But cool I guess if it's going to charity.

Incidentally, beards are awesome.

This is going toward starving kids and you "guess"?

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BurninLeo	Posted: Apr 7 2009, 04:31 PM
Member's Standard Group: Members Posts: 1617 Member No.: 2273 Joined: 3-July 06 Status: (0d)	Aren't they suppose to do crazy designs with their beards before shaving? I thought that was mandatory.

Piemanthe3rd	Posted: Apr 7 2009, 08:20 PM
Defender Of All Things Pastry Group: Members Posts: 2348 Member No.: 3459 Joined: 20-March 07 Status: (0d)	Hell I'd do that. I'd even take suggestions for what style of beard -------------------- My Ref... Ish As Drawn By A Friend. Pieman by Jazz