From Australia With... Beards?

What is it with Australians and beards?

There's the inimitable Aussie band "The Beards", rocking their mixture of comedic beard-based original songs and bearded-band covers (think ZZ-Top).

While the above song is obviously a classic, my favourite 'The Beards' track title is "If Your Dad Doesn't Have A Beard, You've Got Two Mums".

T-shirts and other merchandise available from The Beards store.

As if that weren't enough beards (how could it be?), new Aussie tee startup Hello Fresco has even more for you.

Their writeup promises "a lack of skulls, thunderbolts and general weird stuff" and while that's true, Hello Fresco does boast a ginger bearded face on every tee.

I think Shakespeare said it best when he said:

"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man".