The Great Lincoln's Beard Challenge of Aught-Eight – The Results

Is it Lincoln's birthday already? I can't believe it! We haven't even taken down our International Pancake Day decorations yet.

It's time, then, to show off some Lincoln beards. We got a ton of wonderful submissions, so we narrowed it down to the best all of them.

First, we have Dan who decided to take the Lincoln's beard and English Cocker Spaniel hair challenges simultaneously:

Next — Alec, who cleans up nice in his blue — shkirt or something:

Unfortunately, we got no Babe-raham Lincoln pictures. But our one lady entrant, NV_Library_Staff more than made up for it by sending in photos of the intense frock coat she sewed for the occasion:

We close out the pageant with our original Lincoln Ben in all his sepia toned glory:

Oh, and our ego-tripping producer who started the whole thing:

That's all for 2008, Lincolnites. We had fun. Now go save yourselves a Union, you scamps!