The first day of this year's Big Fresno Fair -- Oct. 5 -- is Fresno Bee day, and Scoopy and the gang are going to have a bunch of activities lined up.
We in the blogosphere elbowed our way into their meeting and had a crazy idea: The opening night concert is from ZZ Top, so let's have an event honoring the best facial hair in Fresno.
We ran this past our pals at Fresno Famous, they liked it. So, like a good beard-'stache combo, we're joining forces for a hairy good time we're calling the Fresno Facial Hair Face-Off.
Owners of the three best displays of facial hair (beards, mustaches, both) will win tickets to the ZZ Top show. The best facial hair will win front-row tickets -- close enough to compare yourself to those famed ZZ Top beards.
Wanna get it on this? Just fill out this form and you'll have a spot reserved for the competition on Oct. 6. Expect to hear more about this as the event gets closer, but for now, you might think about retiring the razor for a couple months.
It's weird that no one at this meeting seemed concerned about excluding half the population from this contest.
don't give up the fight hmac!
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Maybe they WILL have a 'ladies' category!!
There are bound to be some eligible!!
Yeah, I have to say it kind of blows to have a contest giveaway that immediately excludes half of your readers from having a chance at winning tix. There's got to be a better way.
There's nothing that says a lady can't enter.
But, Heather, I'll throw this out there: I can't grow a beard or even a mustache, so I'm excluded too.
And Adam, this isn't about finding the best way to give out ZZ Top tickets. We'll give out tickets to the show on the site -- as we will the entire concert series, as we do every year. So everybody can enter to win. Well, except the people who don't have the Internet.
This was simply us trying to do an event that was different, kinda pop culturey (there's a show about competitive bearding now, ya know?) and had an entertainment tie.
Heather and Adam, there are plenty of women with facial hair out there!
Good reason to start some facial hair!
Really? you are actually getting upset because of how "unfair" the contest is. Aren't there a thousand things more important for you to be concerned about. Like Mike Oz said, there are other opportunities to win, this isn't your ONLY chance.
It's a silly, fun contest. Let it go.